Friday 26th June 2015
There is compelling evidence for a range of physical, mental and social health benefits that people gain from urban nature. In this talk I will provide an overview of our Brisbane-based research that explores how the opportunity to interact with nature is spread across society, who actually capitalises on that opportunity, and finally what ‘dose’ of nature is required to gain the health benefits.
Dr Danielle Shanahan is a postdoctoral research fellow in the School of Biological Sciences. While her research now looks at the link between people, nature and health, she is an ecologist at heart with a PhD in landscape ecology. She has also spent time working in the Queensland Government on strategic biodiversity and national park policy. She came back to research after realising that conservation is facing huge human-based issues in the future as public buy-in seems to be declining.
