A5010628666- Urban Green Space and Health
- Environmental Education and Sustainability
- Insect and Pesticide Research
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
- Plant and animal studies
- Bee Products Chemical Analysis
- Urban Agriculture and Sustainability
- Animal and Plant Science Education
- Urban Transport and Accessibility
- Edible Oils Quality and Analysis
- Climate Change Communication and Perception
- Urban Heat Island Mitigation
- Place Attachment and Urban Studies
- Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
- Children's Rights and Participation
- Behavioral Health and Interventions
- Ecology, Conservation, and Geographical Studies
- Climate Change and Health Impacts
- Knee injuries and reconstruction techniques
- Essential Oils and Antimicrobial Activity
- Environmental Philosophy and Ethics
- Healthcare and Venom Research
- Digital Radiography and Breast Imaging
- Conferences and Exhibitions Management
University of Surrey
2023-2024
University of Florence
2012-2024
University of Pisa
2013-2023
University of Gävle
2019-2023
Stockholm Resilience Centre
2016-2018
Stockholm University
2016-2018
The 2020 coronavirus pandemic caused countries across the world to implement measures of social distancing curb spreading COVID-19. large and sudden disruptions everyday life that result from this are likely impact well-being, particularly among urban populations live in dense settings with limited public space. In paper, we argue during these extraordinary circumstances, nature offers resilience for maintaining well-being populations, while enabling distancing. We discuss more generally...
The establishment of interdisciplinary Master's and PhD programs in sustainability science is opening up an exciting arena filled with opportunities for early-career scholars to address pressing challenges. However, embarking upon endeavor as scholar poses a unique set challenges: develop individual scientific identity strong specific methodological skill-set, while at the same time gaining ability understand communicate between different epistemologies. Here, we explore challenges that...
Despite arguments justifying the need to consider how cultural ecosystem services are coproduced by humans and nature, there currently few approaches for explaining relationships between ecosystems through embodied scientific realism. This realism recognises that human–environment connections not solely produced in mind, but relations body, culture environment time. Using affordance theory as our guide, we compare contrast common understandings of co-production across three assumptions: (1)...
Deformed wing virus (DWV) is a honeybee pathogen whose presence generally associated with infestation of the colony by mite Varroa destructor, leading to onset infections responsible for collapse bee colony. DWV contaminates products such as royal jelly, bee-bread and honey stored within infected hive. Outside hive, has been found in pollen loads collected directly from well uninfected forager bees. It shown that introduction virus-contaminated into DWV-free hive results production food,...
In order to construct urban environments that limit negative impacts for global sustainability while supporting human wellbeing, there is a need better understand how features of the environment influence people’s everyday experiences. We present novel method studying this combining accessibility analysis and public participatory GIS (PPGIS). Seven are defined them analysed across Stockholm municipality. estimate probabilities positive experiences in places based on these features, by using...
Habits are the fundamental basis for many of our daily actions and can be powerful barriers to behavioural change. Still, habits not included in most narratives, theories, interventions applied sustainable behaviour. One reason societies struggle reach policy goals people fail change towards more pro-environmental lifestyles might that behaviours now bound by strong override knowledge intentions act. In this perspective article, we provide three arguments why a needed research agenda...
The design of the green infrastructure in urban areas largely ignores how people's relation to nature, or human-nature connection (HNC), can be nurtured. One practical reason for this is lack a framework guide assessment where people, and more importantly children, experience significant nature situations establish important routines. This paper develops such framework. We employed mixed-method approach understand what qualities connect children (RQ1), constitutes children's HNC (RQ2),...
The aim of this paper is to explore how children learn form new relationships with nature. It draws on a longitudinal case study participating in stewardship project involving the conservation salamanders during school day Stockholm, Sweden. qualitative method includes two waves data collection: when group 10-year-old participated (2015) and years after they (2017). We conducted 49 interviews as well using participant observations questionnaires. found indications that developed sympathy for...
Air travel accounts for a major share of individual greenhouse gas emissions, particularly people in high-income countries. Until recently, few have reduced flying because climate concerns, but currently, movement staying on the ground is rising. Sweden has been focal point this movement, during 2018–2019, when flight tax was introduced, and air reduction intensely discussed media. We performed semi-structured interviews with Swedish residents, focusing primarily individuals who its impact....
Abstract Recent empirical research has confirmed the importance of green infrastructure and outdoor recreation to urban people’s well-being during COVID-19 pandemic. However, only a few studies provide cross-city analyses. We analyse behaviour across four Nordic cities ranging from metropolitan areas middle-sized city. collected map-based survey data residents ( n = 469–4992) in spring 2020 spatially near mapped sites respondents’ places residence. Our statistical examination reveals how...
Do nature-deficit routines undermine affinity with the biosphere? We assessed social-ecological features in Stockholm that afford nature experiences and analyzed accessibility of these natural areas to preschools. then selected preschools contrasting accessibilities. The resulting from differing outdoor possibilities preschool life were investigated relation children’s biosphere. Preschools closer have children who are more empathetic concerned for non-human forms, cognitively aware...
Post-industrial societies impose new ecological challenges on urbanism. However, it is argued here that most approaches to sustainable urbanism still share the conception of humans-environment relations characterized modernism. The paper finds support in recent knowledge developments social-ecological sustainability, spatial analysis and cognitive science initiate a dialogue for an alternative framework. Urban form engages humans not only through physical activities, but also mentally...
The coronavirus pandemic entailed varying restrictions on access, movement and social behavior in populations around the world. Knowledge about how people coped with "soft-touch" can inform urban spatial planning strategies that enhance resilience against future pandemics. We analyzed data from an online place-based survey 2845 places across Sweden respondents abstained visiting, visited similar frequency, or more frequently spring 2020 as compared to before pandemic. In logistic regression...
What relationship with nature shapes children's desire to protect the environment? This study crosses conventional disciplinary boundaries explore this question. I use qualitative and quantitative methods analyse experiential, psychological, contextual dimensions of Human-Nature Connection (HNC) before after children participate in a project conservation. The results from interviews (N = 25) suggest that experiential aspects saving animals enhance appreciation understanding for animals,...
Urban nature is and will be the most common provider of interactions for humankind. The restorative benefits exposure are renown creating human habitats that simultaneously support people's wellbeing ecological sustainability an urgent priority. In this study, we investigate how relationship between environmental attitudes healthy ecosystems influences experiences combining a place-based online survey with geographical data on ecosystem health in Stockholm (Sweden). Using spatial regression,...
Limited exposure to direct nature experiences is a worrying sign of urbanization, particularly for children. Experiencing during childhood shapes aspects personal relationship with nature, crucial sustainable decision-making processes in adulthood. Scholars often stress the need ‘reconnect’ urban dwellers nature; however, few elaborate on how this can be achieved. Here, we argue that reconnection requires ecosystems, capacity enable environmental learning cognitive, affective and psychomotor...
We reply to 'A relational turn for sustainability science?' by West et al. commend their salient comments about the turn. Yet article leaves us wondering methodological challenges and pragmatics of thinking. The authors omitted important tensions in thinking discussion how assess dynamic socio-ecological systems, lever change sustainability. Whilst is helpful, researchers inevitably need make strategic choices where divide system components if goal systematically relations promote...
Nosema apis and ceranae are microsporidian parasite worldwide spread causing an emerging infectious disease of European honeybee Apis mellifera. The presence was deeply investigated in several countries but low information presents about islands. In this investigation evaluated the N. apiaries located Tuscanian Archipelago islands (Central Italy). For detection, two different Real-Time PCR (qPCR) methods, 16S rRNA Hsp70 gene amplification qPCR, were performed on honey bee samples; while, for...
Public perceptions of ecological aesthetics are a crucial component in evaluations the quality urban green spaces (UGSs) and guiding planning, design renewal practices. In this paper, we propose novel methodological framework that combines deep learning eye-tracking to investigate relationships between landscape elements, features, visual focus public ecosystem aesthetic UGSs. Our Ecosystem Aesthetic Perceptions (PEAP) model emphasises interactions quality. To validate model, conducted study...
Do nature-deficit routines undermine affinity with the biosphere? We assessed social-ecological features in Stockholm that afford nature experiences and analyzed accessibility of these natural areas to preschools. then selected preschools contrasting accessibilities. The resulting from differing outdoor possibilities preschool life were investigated relation children's biosphere. Preschools closer have children who are more empathetic concerned for non-human forms, cognitively aware...
The aim of this work is to characterize fresh bee-pollen in order define the main nutritional properties apiary product for future legislation. Organic (n = 5) harvested from Lucca (Tuscany, Italy) was studied palynological analysis, content (dry matter, crude protein, lipid, ash and carbohydrate contents), thiobarbituric acid reactive substances (TBARS) fatty acids (FA) profile. chemical composition analyses showed an average 849 g/kg dry 253 proteins, 12.9 lipids, 24.7 ash, 561...