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GGR Knowledge Brief 4- Methodologies for Monitoring and Assessment
Over the last four years, GoGreenRoutes has sought to evoke shifts in perception of public spaces and increase active transport for improvement of health and well-being. However, in order to accurately assess these aims, long term monitoring and assessment of the impacts of green spaces on physical and mental well-being are needed. Many initiatives related to urban green
space lack consensus of monitoring and...
Publication Date: 31 Dec 2024
Author(s): Francesca Centola, Adriana Duarte, et. al
Go Green Routes Urban Play Report
A Playful City (APC) is pleased to present this report detailing the phased process, implementation, and the outcomes of our GoGreenRoutes Urban Play Events in six cities across Europe. The events celebrated the Nature-Based Solutions (NbS) created as part of the GoGreenRoutes (GGR) project in six partner cities: Burgas, Lahti, Limerick Tallinn, Umeå, and Versailles.
Over six months, APC organised a series of...
Publication Date: 20 Dec 2024
GGR Poster Supporting Sustainable Communities
As part of a GoGreeRoutes project, Limerick City & County Council enabled this community led open space design based on Nature Based Solutions (NBS). Dr. Sarah O’Malley (Limerick City & County Council) guided the project from its onset to create a sustainable, vibrant and educational urban ‘Greenspace’, providing opportunities for social engagement, contact with the natural environment and active recreation, as well as...
Publication Date: 02 Dec 2024
Author(s): Limerick City and County Council
The environmental health citizen interview tool: towards an inclusive qualitative environmental wellbeing approach in support of planetary health
Nature-based Solutions (NbS) are vital for addressing climate change and biodiversity loss, yet their benefits are often unequally distributed. This study introduces the Environmental Health Citizen Interview Tool, aiming to inclusively capture diverse perspectives on environmental wellbeing using qualitative research methods. The principles of epistemic justice and planetary health are central to its development.
...Publication Date: 21 Nov 2024
Author(s): Ben Delbaere, Evelise Pereira Barboza, Bianka Plüschke-Altof, Mariia Chebotareva, Evelien Van Rafelghem, Lauren Blockmans, Hans Keune
On the need for a multi-dimensional framework to measure accessibility to urban green
With the recent expansion of urban greening interventions, the definition of spatial indicators to measure the provision of urban greenery has become pivotal in informing the policy-design process. By analyzing the stability of the population and area rankings induced by several indicators of green accessibility for over 1000 cities worldwide, we investigate the extent to which using a single metric provides a reliable...
Publication Date: 13 Nov 2024
Author(s): Alice Battison, Rossano Schifanella
