Background Evidence on the health benefits of spending time in nature has highlighted the
importance of provision of blue and green spaces where people live. The potential for health …

There has been a surge of academic studies on nature-based solutions in the last decades,
reflecting the growing view that nature can help us address the climate and the ecological …

In the transition to a more sustainable built environment over the last two decades, the
“greening” of architecture as a popular approach has received widespread attention …

Gardens are unique ecosystems with the potential to deliver an array of important
environmental and health benefits, particularly for urban populations. A large body of …

The beneficial effects of urban parks and forests on the well-being of city dwellers have
gained widespread recognition. In recent years, artificial intelligence (AI) robots have been …

The future of biodiversity lies not just in the strategies and mechanisms by which ecosystems
and species are practically best protected from anthropogenic pressures. It lies also, and …

Physical activity offers significant mental health and social wellbeing benefits but social
distancing and quarantine requirements during the pandemic along with disparities in …

Most urban green space (UGS) studies focus on city-level analysis, which is not conducive
to urban renewal. We developed a new deep learning approach for characterising the …

There is growing recognition that our relationship with nature needs repairing. Two
operationalizations of this construct within psychology are nature connectedness and …

Much academic and media attention has been focused on how nature contributes to
psychological health, yet, most of this focus has been on happiness or hedonic well-being …