Improving Wellbeing through Urban Nature: Research into Practice

1st July 2019

Description

This webinar presented a summary of findings from the IWUN (Improving Wellbeing through Urban Nature) research project, led by researchers at the Department of Landscape Architecture at the University of Sheffield. This webinar called on the five strands of research to describe some of the findings: an epidemiological analysis of links between greenspace and health, in-depth interviews and workshops exploring people’s connectedness with nature, a smartphone app developed to see if people feel better when noticing good things in their environment, interviews with professionals and community groups to identify interventions to increase wellbeing and a cost-utility analysis of selected interventions. In the webinar Dr Jo Birch and Dr Nicola Dempsey discussed the findings and their implications as well as how they can be used to help stakeholders better incorporate nature into their decision-making processes.