Evidence

This manual provides advice on selecting and procuring the right tree for the right place in urban areas. It highlights long term issues of the threats to existing trees from pests, disease and climate change, and describes the benefits to the environment and for wellbeing that urban trees can provide.

This study found that it did not matter whether this was one long visit or several shorter visits – wellbeing was significantly higher with a minimum of 120 minutes of nature contact per week.

A lovely guide to the identification of native British tree species throughout the seasons. Suitable for beginners.

This website looks at the multiple benefits that greening the urban environment can provide, with sub-sections on different themes.

This review found that green space exposure and green prescriptions are associated with numerous health benefits in intervention and observational studies. The findings should encourage practitioners and policymakers to give due regard to how they can create, maintain, and improve existing accessible green spaces in deprived areas. We also need the development of strategies for the utilisation of such spaces by those who stand to benefit the most.

This review found that nature positively influences mental health in children and adolescents, but cautions that more research is still needed.

Ten percent of the UK’s population are from ethnic minorities, but they represent only one percent of visits to UK national parks. This article explores the reasons why, and offers some solutions going forward.

An assessment of the various ecosystem services provided by trees and woodlands and how to value them. Contains useful information on each of the myriad benefits of woodlands and trees and very in-depth investigation of the evidence base of each of these benefits.

In this article, former CSH staff member Ben Williams advocates that rather than regarding green infrastructure as a burden on hard-pressed public finances, we should embrace it as an important part of an approach to sustainable healthcare.

Seven core themes were identified: connecting with what is valued; being elsewhere, seeing and feeling differently; exploration, inner and outer excursions; home and safe; symbolism, understanding and communicating differently; benefitting from old and new physical activities; and enriching aesthetic experiences. This study says nature “provides patients with unburdened physical and psychic space invested with personal significance” and is important to consider in cancer care.