Promoting human health through forests: overview and major challenges

E Karjalainen, T Sarjala, H Raitio - Environmental health and preventive …, 2010 - Springer
This review aims to contribute to the ongoing discussion about human health, global
change, and biodiversity by concentrating on the relationships between forests and human …

Restorativeness in natural and urban environments: A meta-analysis

E Menardo, M Brondino, R Hall… - Psychological …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
In recent decades, there has been an increasing volume of research aimed out quantifying
the extent to which the natural environment can assist in restoring mental, emotional, and …

Go greener, feel better? The positive effects of biodiversity on the well-being of individuals visiting urban and peri-urban green areas

G Carrus, M Scopelliti, R Lafortezza… - Landscape and urban …, 2015 - Elsevier
The literature on human experience in green environments had widely showed the positive
outcomes of getting in contact with nature. This study addresses the issue of whether urban …

Particularities of having plants at home during the confinement due to the COVID-19 pandemic

L Pérez-Urrestarazu, MP Kaltsidi, PA Nektarios… - Urban forestry & urban …, 2021 - Elsevier
The present study evaluated the role of having plants at home during the confinement period
as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic that deprived people of freely visiting open green …

A dose-response curve describing the relationship between urban tree cover density and self-reported stress recovery

B Jiang, D Li, L Larsen… - Environment and …, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
Although it is well established that viewing nature can help individuals recover from a
stressful experience, the dose-response curve describing the relationship between tree …

The need for psychological restoration as a determinant of environmental preferences

T Hartig, H Staats - Journal of environmental psychology, 2006 - Elsevier
Environmental preferences vary with the environments evaluated and the people who
evaluated them. When research has considered the explanatory power of person variables …

A dose–response curve describing the relationship between tree cover density and landscape preference

B Jiang, L Larsen, B Deal, WC Sullivan - Landscape and urban planning, 2015 - Elsevier
Does adding more and more trees to a residential street yield a reliable increase in
preference? Or is there a point at which, in terms of preference, additional trees will have …

The restorative value of the urban environment: A systematic review of the existing literature

AM Weber, J Trojan - Environmental Health Insights, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
Background: Stress poses a major issue in our modern society, making restoration an
important research focus. Restoration likelihood has mostly been observed in nature, which …

[HTML][HTML] What to do in, and what to expect from, urban green spaces–Indicator-based approach to assess cultural ecosystem services

K Krellenberg, M Artmann, C Stanley… - Urban Forestry & Urban …, 2021 - Elsevier
Literature on urban ecosystem services (UESS) is vast, particularly on cultural ecosystem
services. However, due to a lack of knowledge on individual urban green spaces on the site …

Relations between naturalness and perceived restorativeness of different urban green spaces

G Carrus, R Lafortezza, G Colangelo, I Dentamaro… - Psyecology, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
Green spaces have positive effects on human well-being and quality of life in cities. So far,
studies in this field mainly compared preferences for, and outcomes of contact with, natural …