BioCities as Promotors of Health and Well-being

Ubalde-López, Monica; Nieuwenhuijse, Mark; Spano, Giuseppina; Sanesi, Giovanni; Calfapietra, Carlo; Meyer-Grandbastien, Alice; O´Brien, Liz; Ottaviani Aalmo, Giovanna; Salbitano, Fabio; Wilkes-Allemann, Jerylee; Dadvand, Payam (2023). BioCities as Promotors of Health and Well-being In: Transforming BioCities, Designing Urban Spaces Inspired by Nature 20 (pp. 131-165). Cham: Springer 10.1007/978-3-031-29466-2_6

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The mainstream public health community often treats the natural environment with ambivalence. On one side, there are infectious agents, extreme weather, and catastrophic events such as floods, landslides, wildfires, storms, and earthquakes that directly or indirectly sicken, injure, or kill people (Hartig et al. 2014). On the other hand, human health is positively connected with the characteristics and quality of nature near to where people live. This ambivalence becomes crucial in cities where the living environment has peculiar characteristics both for humans and other living organisms. Indeed, there are many ways in which the urban environment can affect human health, positively or negatively. BioCities develop as dynamic socio-ecological systems hosted by nature. Therefore, addressing the issue of health according to an integrated and holistic approach, which reduces the negative effects of the natural environment and optimises its positive aspects, is a primary pillar in the construction of BioCities.

Item Type:	Book Section (Book Chapter)
Division/Institute:	School of Agricultural, Forest and Food Sciences HAFL School of Agricultural, Forest and Food Sciences HAFL > Multifunctional Forest Management School of Agricultural, Forest and Food Sciences HAFL > Multifunctional Forest Management > Forest Policy and International Forest Management
Name:	Ubalde-López, Monica; Nieuwenhuijse, Mark; Spano, Giuseppina; Sanesi, Giovanni; Calfapietra, Carlo; Meyer-Grandbastien, Alice; O´Brien, Liz; Ottaviani Aalmo, Giovanna; Salbitano, Fabio; Wilkes-Allemann, Jerylee and Dadvand, Payam
Subjects:	S Agriculture > SD Forestry
ISBN:	978-3-031-29466-2
Publisher:	Springer
Language:	English
Submitter:	Jerylee Wilkes-Allemann
Date Deposited:	15 Jan 2024 15:46
Last Modified:	15 Jan 2024 15:46
Publisher DOI:	10.1007/978-3-031-29466-2_6
URI:	https://arbor.bfh.ch/id/eprint/20971