Engaging Young People with Green Spaces, 23 August, 11:00
Interested in engaging young people with green spaces? Join Scotland's Young People's Forest at this online event, offering guidance and advice from expert speakers to the youth work sector.
How environment shapes the foundations of healthy development
National Scientific Council on the Developing Child. (2023). Place Matters: The Environment We Create Shapes the Foundations of Healthy Development: Working Paper No. 16. This working paper (Center of the Developing Child, Harvard University) examines how the built and natural environments - and the systemic factors that shape those environments [...]
Can you share your park story?
Do you, or your children, or class, love to play and learn in your local park? Greenspace Scotland have put a Portraits Call Out - tell us your park stories. They are asking for your help in bringing this campaign to life.
How can a raingarden support biodiversity and education?
Find out more from this wonderful example at Zetland Gardens, Falkirk. Discover how Zetland Park scoops Scottish Award for Planning, as Greenspace Scotland’s project of the month.
Health behaviour in school aged children in Scotland – report published
The MRC/CSO Social and Public Health Sciences Unit (SPHSU), University of Glasgow have shared their latest news in their June 2023 bulletin. This includes the launch of Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) Scotland 2022 National Report at an event in Edinburgh. The 2022 report can be downloaded from the [...]
Types of greenspace and adolescent mental health and well-being in metropolitan London
This journal article in Cities and Health 24 Feb 2023 (advance article) explores the impact of different types of greenspace on the mental health of young people living in London. It draws on analysis of longitudinal data covering 10-15 year old adolescents. The findings indicate a lack of consistent results [...]
Nature Connectedness: Latest research round-up
‘The increase in nature connectedness research since 2001 is remarkable…’ This post in Finding Nature shares a small sample of nature connectedness work which has been published recently (March 2023). ‘It reflects an increasing interest from nature conservation journals, showing that the need to focus on a new relationship with [...]
How can we find nearby nature? Mapping access to nature across the UK
In England, this Wildlife and Countryside Link report explores the scale of the problem and the challenges and opportunities that the UK Government faces in aiming to meet its commitment for all households to be within 15 minutes-walk of nature. In Scotland, the Programme for Government 2020 commits the Scottish Government [...]
