8.02 Green space improves air quality by removing pollutants from the air.
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Urban forests:Conservation strategy to increase ecosystem services & urban wellbein
Planting more trees in potential tree cover areas could nearly double the benefits provided by the urban forest.
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Designed to Move: Active Cities
The report shows that cities with physically active populations are not only more economically competitive – they also benefit from increased productivity, improved school performance, higher...
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Connecting Global Priorities: Biodiversity and Human Health
This is an extensive report focused on the complex and multi-faceted connections between biodiversity and human health, and how the loss of biodiversity and corresponding ecosystem services may...
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Benefits of Restoring Ecosystem Services in Urban Areas
Investing in restoring, protecting, and enhancing green infrastructure and ecosystem services in cities is not only ecologically and socially desirable, but also economically viable.
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Co-benefits of Designing Communities for Active Living
Active cities are an investment in developing greater human, economic, social and environmental capital.
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Walking Works
Walking makes people happy, keeps everyone healthy and can even save your life.
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Co-benefits of Designing Communities for Active Living
Designing communities that support physical activity is likely to produce a wide variety of additional benefits, ranging from mental health to environmental sustainability and economics.
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Claiming the Health Dividend: Value for Money Estimates of Investment in Walking and Cycling
This report summarizes the latest findings in studies that looked at benefit-to-cost ratios of investments in walking and cycling which are considered to be around 5:1.
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The Relationship Between Trees and Human Health
The loss of trees to the emerald ash borer increased mortality related to cardiovascular and lower-respiratory-tract illness.
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The Benefits of Natural World Heritage
This study identifies the full range of direct and indirect benefits that local, national and global communities can receive from natural and mixed World Heritage sites. Examples of benefits, in...
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Blue Sky Green Space
The benefits of green space provide a very cost effective means of promoting health and well-being, as well as a mechanism for increasing community and citizen involvement in volunteering.
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Urban Forests: The Value of Trees in the City of Toronto
An investment in urban forests is an investment in the overall economic and environmental well-being of urban society.
