Urban Green Space and Health

Unequal barriers to nature's contributions to people impact quality of life

The paper surveys barriers to accessing nature's contributions to people in a French city, finding disparities by socio-demographic factors and their impact on quality of life.

The scents of summer: Plant-diversity and vegetation-height drive health-relevant scent exposure in urban greenspaces

The paper quantifies airborne terpenes and terpenoids in urban greenspaces and links their abundance to plant diversity and vegetation structure.

Global urban forest cover and nature access is insufficient for human wellbeing and worsening

The paper assesses global urban nature access and finds insufficient tree cover and green space availability, worsening over time, with disparities linked to climate and socioeconomic factors.

From Perception to Appraisal: Brain Responses to Natural and Built Features in Urban Environments

This study examines how urban and natural features in environments affect subjective experience and neural responses using EEG, finding that greenery correlates with positive perception and specific brain activity patterns.

Integrating Earth Observation and Graph Theory to Evaluate Urban Green Spaces Connectivity Across European Capitals

This study evaluates urban green spaces connectivity in 28 European capitals using Earth observation and graph theory, finding that network metrics better capture functional connectivity than traditional metrics.

Urban green space exposure reduces subjective stress and physiological arousal

This study shows that exposure to urban green spaces reduces subjective stress and physiological arousal compared to gray spaces during naturalistic walking.

Disparities in climate risk-mitigation and recreation services in Grenoble (France)

The paper assesses disparities in climate risk-mitigation and recreation services in Grenoble, France, finding lower climate benefits for low-income households but equal recreation access.

Socioeconomic Segregation and Park Greenness: Insights Across a Strong Latitudinal Gradient

This study examines greenness distribution in Chilean cities and finds socioeconomic segregation in green infrastructure access and usage patterns.

Using nature-based citizen science initiatives to enhance nature connection and mental health.

This study evaluates the mental health and nature connection impacts of five nature-based citizen science initiatives, finding short-term improvements in emotions and stress but longer engagement needed for significant nature connection and depression changes.

Using green space virtual reality to prevent stress-induced working memory impairment

This study investigates whether VR-based green space can reduce stress and protect working memory, finding no significant effects on cortisol or cognitive performance.

Nature exposure induces hypoalgesia by acting on nociception-related neural processing

This study shows that nature exposure reduces pain perception by altering specific neural pain processing pathways, not just through general effects or reporting bias.

Correlating stress reduction and eye movement patterns in a world famous Kyoto Japanese garden

The paper compares the stress-reducing effects of two Japanese gardens by measuring physiological responses and eye movement patterns.