Dear Colleagues

Please see below for details of a proposed interdisciplinary Special
Issue of 'Landscape and Urban Planning' on Green Space and Health.

Hopefully this will be of interest to some and we would also
encourage you to circulate the CFP to anyone who might be interested.

Usual apologies for cross posting

Best wishes

Tim Brown and Steven Cummins

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CFP: Proposed special issue of Landscape and Urban Planning

Title: ‘Intervening in health: the place of urban green space’

Editors: Tim Brown and Steven Cummins, School of Geography, Queen Mary,
University of London, UK

Debates around the benefit of green space to the promotion of health and
well-being in urban populations are of current policy interest but also
have a long history; so too are the promotion of interventions seeking
either to protect such spaces for this purpose or to promote their use
in specific, health-promoting ways. In the UK, for example, calls for
the protection of urban green space for leisure and recreation in the
mid-nineteenth century were actualised by the considerable efforts of
philanthropists, voluntary associations and civic authorities towards
the century’s end. The moral and physical health of the population,
especially the urban poor often living in over-crowded districts, was
never far off the agenda. It is apparent that the arguments that helped
to save urban green spaces from development in the nineteenth and early
twentieth centuries, notably those relating to their benefit to health,
are being recycled in the twenty-first. Therefore, the aim of this
special issue is to bring together research that examines the importance
of green space to the promotion of health from its historical origins to
contemporary policy debates around public health and health inequalities
in relation to different national and international contexts.

Possible topics for papers include (but are not limited to):

- Case studies of examples where the promotion of health and well-being
has been a central feature of campaigns to save or promote the use of
urban green space;
- Theoretical analyses of the relationship between health and place as
it applies in the context of urban green space;
- Discussions of the nature of evidence used in arguments to promote
urban green space as health promoting, especially those with a spatial
and/or temporal element;
- Empirical quantitative and qualitative analyses that further develop
the evidence base on how urban green space may influence health
behaviours and outcomes;
- Analyses of the ways in which people incorporate urban green spaces
into everyday practice/self-care regimes;
- Discussions of the form that healthy green spaces take and the
elements that are necessary to constitute them as health promoting.

We are looking for between 5 and 10 papers to complete the proposal for
the special issue, which the journal has already indicated an interest
in carrying.

Please send abstracts to Tim Brown ([log in to unmask]) by June 17th 2011

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Steven Cummins MSc PhD
Senior Lecturer & NIHR Senior Fellow
School of Geography
Queen Mary, University of London
Mile End Road
London E1 4NS

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