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         <title>Green Space Quality Manual</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>This licenced manual (costing £350 for most users, but free to organisations supporting Parks for London) provides an aid for setting, maintaining, and improving quality standards across all types of green infrastructure.</p>]]></description>
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         <title>Report on the accessibility of green and blue spaces</title>
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         <title>A community food grower’s guide to working with the health service</title>
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         <title>Tools and guides for measuring the biodiversity value of habitat for biodiversity net gain (BNG)</title>
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         <title>Spaceshaper is a practical toolkit for use by anyone to measure the quality of a public space</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>A rapid scoping review of health and wellbeing evidence for the Framework of Green Infrastructure Standards</p>]]></description>
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         <title>Polli:Nation Survey - a simple field guide to measuring habitats and pollinator species</title>
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         <title>Biodiversity - measuring butterfly species</title>
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         <title>The Nature Connection Handbook - evidence and guidance for encouraging connection to nature</title>
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         <title>Existing questionnaires and scales for measuring nature connection</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<p>The page provides links to online information and resources relating to the importance and measurement of environmental quality, aiming to support organisations working outdoors for benefit of people and/or nature. </p><p><br></p><p>The links are listed beneath three columns to the right of this text - please scroll down the page to see all of the links. To access one, click anywhere on the image beneath the title text for the resource. Additionally, you can add a comment on any resource for others to see, and add your own links by clicking anywhere you see a '+' sign.</p><p><br></p><p>Please feel free to share this page with anyone who may find it useful. </p><p><br></p><p>This page was developed as part of the 'Embedding Environmental Quality into Nature-Based Interventions for Health' York Environmental Sustainability Institute Knowledge Exchange Fellows project, with additional funding from the University of Salford and support from the HEY Smile Foundation. The project was conducted in 2024 by Laura J Harrison, Catherine Cowie, Patricia Darcy, Rachel Dexter, Anthony Hurd, Jo Featherstone, Sarah Knight, Peter Coventry &amp; Piran CL White.</p><p><br></p><p>With thanks to Blossom, East Riding of Yorkshire Council, Faraway CIC, Friends of Bottesford Beck, Friends of Western Library Garden, Groundwork Greater Manchester,</p><p>Groundwork Yorkshire, Green Futures, Humber Conservation Volunteers, Humber Nature Partnership, Humber Wild, Natural England, North York Moors National Park Authority, Orb Community Arts, Rewilding Youth, Solidarity Hull CIC, Sow The City, TCV and Yorkshire</p><p>Ambulance Service Trust for their participation in this project. </p>]]></description>
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         <title>Report on the health and wellbeing benefits of greenspace</title>
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         <title>MOHAWk is an observation tool to assess physical activity and two other wellbeing behaviours (social interactions and taking notice of the environment) in urban spaces</title>
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