Forschung verdeutlicht die Bedeutung der Natur für die psychische Gesundheit in städtischen Umgebungen und bietet kostengünstige Empfehlungen zur Verbesserung der öffentlichen Gesundheit in Städten. Während größere Stadtparks und -wälder kritisch sind, schlagen die Forscher vor, dass es auch wichtig ist, kleinere „Taschenparks“ zu schaffen, die erstellen, um kleinere „Taschenparks“ zu erstellen, die erstellen.

A new study clarifies the importance of nature for mental health in urban settings and provides low-cost recommendations for improving public health in cities. As the proportion of the global population living in cities rises to 70% by 2050, mental health challenges more common in urbanites — such as anxiety and mood disorders — become even more broadly relevant. A new study from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the Natural Capital Project (NatCap) at Stanford University shows that spending even a little time in nature provides significant benefits for a broad range of mental health conditions. The results, published today in Nature Cities, offer guidance to urban planners, policymakers, and others for how to use greenspace as a mental health solution, one that comes with additional benefits like lowering temperatures and sequestering carbon. The research team is now incorporating its findings into a modeling tool for urban planners.

“We are working to translate what we found through this analysis to create more intuitive indicators that would be useful for decision-makers,” said Yingjie Li, postdoctoral scholar at NatCap and lead author of the study. “For example, if a city currently has 20% green space or tree cover, we can try to predict how many preventable cases of mental health disorders could be avoided if that were increased to 30%. Our software will also estimate the potential reduction in healthcare costs associated with such improvements in urban nature.”

NatCap’s flagship mapping and modeling tools, known as InVEST, are used around the world to quantify ecosystem services, or nature’s benefits to people. For years the team has been building a collection of tools focused specifically on nature in cities.

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