Create a nature library
- Author(s): Richard Louv
- Organization: Chldren and Nature Network
- Date Published: June 10, 2015
Libraries exist in every kind of neighborhood; they already serve as community hubs; they’re often supported by Friends groups; they have existing resources (nature books); they’e often more flexible than schools; they’re known for being safe and they’re the perfect, if unexpected, institution to connect people to nature. As a parent, teacher, community or, of course, librarian, you can build community support for turning a local and regional library into a Natural Library (or Naturebrary or Nature-Smart Library, as some folks call them).
This article provides some suggestions for what parents, conservation groups, librarians and others can do to create a nature-smart library, drawn from St. Paul and other cities in the USA.
Designed to move-ACTIVE CITIES: A guide for leaders
- Author(s): Deisgned to move-team of scholarly experts
- Organization: Designed to move
- Date Published: July 1, 2015
This new publication provides evidence and resources to enhance physical activity in cities.
Discovery Park will be Penticton’s first natural playground
- Author(s): Kristi Patton
- Organization: Penticton Western News http://www.pentictonwesternnews.com
- Date Published: April 22, 2013
This article showcases the new natural playground in Penticton which will “…be custom-built, accessible to all and made primarily from natural resources to create earth berm slides, boulders sourced from local rock quarries, rope climbing features, balancing logs built from beetle-infested pine trees, musical instruments, a playhouse and the swings from the original park will be recycled into the project.”
Does Perceived Neighborhood Walkability and Safety Mediate the Association Between Education and Meeting Physical Activity Guidelines?
- Author(s): Michael Pratt, Shaoman Yin, Robin Soler, Rashid Njai, Paul Z. Siegel, Youlian Liao
- Organization: Preventing Chronic Disease, 2015, 12: 140570
- Date Published: May 1, 2015
Physical activity participation, along with other positive health behaviours, is known to relate to various measures of socioeconomic status. One of these is education, with higher education levels being associated with greater physical activity. Aspects of the neighbourhood built environment such as perceived safety and walkability (how walkable an area is) also determine physical activity levels. This study used data from the U.S. Behavioural Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) to quantify how walkability and safety affect the relationship between education and physical activity. These findings give specific direction for action to increase physical activity among people with lower education levels, who tend to do less physical activity. Improving aesthetics and safety in disadvantaged neighbourhoods, such as providing well lit paths and pleasant destinations to walk to, would be an effective way of reducing health disparities.
Ecohealth and Aboriginal Testimony of the Nexus Between Human Health and Place
- Author(s): Fay Johnston, Susan Jacups, Amy Vickery, David Bowman
- Organization: EcoHealth
- Date Published: January 1, 2007
This Indigenous testimony of the nexus between human and landscape health is entirely consistent with previous anthropological research in Australia. Moreover, the identified benefits to both people and country are consistent with the more limited available epidemiological and ecological research. But policies designed to improve Aboriginal health have barely begun to integrate Aboriginal perspectives, underscoring the inherent Western view that human health is largely decoupled from the natural environment.
http://www.springerlink.com/content/l6q4570x8k4237n0/fulltext.pdf
Economic Benefits of British Columbia’s Provincial Parks
- Author(s): British Columbia Ministry of Water, Land and Air Protection (http://www.gov.bc.ca/env/)
- Organization: British Columbia Ministry of Water, Land and Air Protection (http://www.gov.bc.ca/env/)
- Date Published: September 1, 2001
This analysis of the economic benefits of B.C.’s protected areas found the following:
– For every dollar invested by the government, there were ten dollars in visitor expenditures
– Almost one-third of expenditures were from out-of-province visitors ($148 million)
– Economic activity in the parks system sustains approximately 9,100 direct and indirect person years of employment every year
– The economic benefits of parks is widely distributed across the province, with one half of benefits occurring outside of the lower mainland and Victoria regions
Economic Impact of Parks Canada
- Author(s): The Outspan Group Inc. (www.outspangroup.com )
- Organization: Parks Canada (http://www.pc.gc.ca/eng/index.aspx )
- Date Published: April 1, 2011
In a similar analysis to the above report, this focused specifically on the federal parks system (national parks, historic sites, marine conservation areas) and associated economic impacts. Canada’s national parks created almost 42,000 full time equivalent jobs resulting in $1.9 billion in labour income and a $3.0 billion contribution to the country’s GDP in the fiscal year 2008/09.
https://www.pc.gc.ca/en/agence-agency/bib-lib/rapports-reports/econo2011
Ecosystems and Human Well-being Health Synthesis
- Author(s): Carlos Corvalan, Simon Hales, Anthony McMichael
- Organization: World Health Organization
- Date Published: January 1, 2005
Nature’s goods and services are the ultimate foundations of life and health, even though in modern societies this fundamental dependency may be indirect, displaced in space and time, and therefore poorly recognized. Health risks are no longer merely a result of localized exposures to “”traditional”” forms of pollution, although these still certainly exist. They are also a result of broader pressures on ecosystems, from depletion and degradation of freshwater resources, to the impacts of global climate change on natural disasters and agricultural production. Like more traditional risks, the harmful effects of the degradation of ecosystem services are being borne disproportionately by the poor. However, unlike these more traditional hazards, the potential for unpleasant surprises, such as emergence and spread of new infectious diseases, is much greater.
This report represents a call to the health sector, not only to cure the diseases that result from environmental degradation, but also to ensure that the benefits that the natural environment provides to human health and well-being are preserved for future generations.
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