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 [...]
Young people help to create wildflower areas in North Lanarkshire parks
Local authorities are becoming much more savvy managing their parks and greenspaces. This post in Scottish pollinators A shift in emphasis (26 January 2023) describes how North Lanarkshire Council has created a series of trial wildflower areas within high profile public parks. Another smart Lanarkshire move has been to encourage the [...]
Free Trees!
It’s tree planting season! TCV share 2 opportunities for schools and other groups to source free trees: I Dig Trees Now in its eight year, the I Dig Trees campaign from TCV and OVO Energy is providing free trees to schools, community groups and voluntary organisations across England, Wales and [...]
Managing Edinburgh’s greenspaces for pollinators
This blog post on Scottish Pollinators (4 October 2022) shares information about managing spaces for our pollinators and Edinburgh Living Landscape. If you are a school in Edinburgh, is there a greenspace like this near you?
Join the Litter Pick & Play project!
Are you working with children and young people to improve their local environment to increase and improve their play? Play Scotland invite you to get involved in their Litter Pick & Play campaign. They include a handy toolkit on their webpage. This is part of the International Play Association Triennial World [...]
Cities with more vegetation mean ‘better health behaviours’ in children
This Child in the City article (published 30-08-2022) shares the findings of a conclusion of a new partnership study led by the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal). This latest study found that children who live surrounded by more natural spaces are more physically active, spend less time doing sedentary [...]
