IUSD Lecture: „Green cities, healthy cities?“ / Maximilian Nawrath, Leeds, UK

Urbanisation in many low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) reduces opportunities to interact with greenspaces in people´s everyday lives, with potentially detrimental outcomes for their mental health. As a matter of fact there is a clear need to bette runderstand the role urban greenspaces play in mitigating mental ill-health. This talk will discuss the potential of urban greenspaces for improving people´s mental health in rapidly urbanising cities, and issues and barriers that surround planning for healthier cities in such settings.

Date & Time
16. December 2021 at 18:00h CET

Please join us via WebEx
Webex link: https://unistuttgart.webex.com/unistuttgart/j.php?MTID=mded6a28541c9097435924c52f07c4c9a
Meeting number: 2734 345 5824
Meeting Password: UNiDVmxA832

The lecture is hosted by Prof Leonie Fischer / ILPÖ.

Maximilian Nawrath is a PhD candidate at the University of Leeds, UK. His reasearch focuses on societal transformation towards sustainability, especially on exploring relationships between urban greenspaces and mental health in rapidly urbanising cities in low- and middle-income countries. This includes devising novel methods for assessing biodiversity – mental health relationships, and the economic evaluation of ecosystem services. He has worked and studied in international and interdisciplinary teams in Germany, Norway, UK, India, and, most currently, Nepal.