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This open access book brings together 16 specially commissioned chapters drawn from a range of different professional-practitioner and academic global perspectives on the importance of the relationship between people and green and blue spaces. It focuses on issues surrounding the importance of natural environments on public health and wellbeing, and the environmental, cultural, and social importance of green and blue spaces that can result through responsible and sustainable adaptive management processes. It explores how the Covid-19 pandemic forced reconsiderations of our relationship with these natural spaces and highlights the important impact of the pace of climate change. While not pretending to have the answers, the stimulating and imaginative contributions embrace rich perspectives drawn from backgrounds as diverse as heritage studies, tourism, conservation, geography, policy formulation, public health, environmental health, research methods, history, literature, art, and theology.
List of contents
1. People and Places Matter: From Theory to Practice. Introduction.- 2. What Does the Global Biodiversity Framework Mean for Protected and Conserved Areas? - 3. Landscapes of the Romantic Sublime: The Legacy of Nineteenth-century Artistic Visions and Contributions to the Development of the Management of Natural Heritage.- 4. Islandscapes: Tourism, Covid, Climate Change and Challenges to Natural Landscapes. A Caribbean Perspective and View From Barbados.- 5. Managing Heritage Landscapes of Cultural Value: A View From the National Trust Portfolio in Purbeck, Southern England.- 6. Between High and Low Tide. Participatory Approaches to Managing England's Coastal and Riverine Natural and Cultural Heritage: A Case Study From the Citizan Initiative.- 7. Managing a UNESCOWorld Heritage Site in a Post-Colonial, Post-Conflict and Post-Disaster Destination. The Case of the Haitian National History Park.- 7. Sustainable Project Management of Green Spaces, Protected and Conserved Areas - Opportunities and Challenges.- 9. (Re)connecting With Nature: Exploring Nature Based Interventions for Psychological Health and Wellbeing.- 10. Significant Spaces: Exploring the Health and Wellbeing Impacts of Natural Environments.- 11. Judaism and Engagements With Nature: Theology and Practice.- 12. Islam and Engagements With Nature; Theology and Practice.- 13. What Have We Learned From the Impact of the Pandemic on Our Relationship With Nature? The Importance of Views From Home.- 14. Impacts and Lessons Learned From the Covid-19 Pandemic for Protected and Conserved Area Management.- 15. Tourism and Visitor Management in Protected Areas Post Pandemic: the English Context.- 16. Climate Change - Protected Areas as a Tool to Address a Global Crisis.- 17. The Virtual Wild: Exploring the Intersection of Virtual Reality and Natural Environments.
