Air Quality Awareness Week – Griffith’s research contribution to better air and better health

“Better Air, Better Health” is the theme for this year’s 14th annual Air Quality Awareness Week, 4-7 May. To support this theme, the focus for the Week is clean air as promoted by urban green spaces, such as parks, forests and community gardens.

Research into urban green space and public health is integral to ensuring a sustainable approach to “Better Air, Better Health”. The following snapshot of open access research, held in Griffith Research Online, forms part of the research community narrative around green space:

Informal Urban Green-Space: Comparison of Quantity and Characteristics in Brisbane, Australia and Sapporo, Japan

Urban green space, public health, and environmental justice: The challenge of making cities ‘just green enough’

Urban green space cooling effect in cities

Environmental, health, wellbeing, social and equity effects of urban green space interventions: A meta-narrative evidence synthesis

The Greening of Hanoi: Towards a Liveable Capital City, A study of the Cultural Context of Open Space Planning

Cultivating climate justice: Green infrastructure and suburban disadvantage in Australia

Urban green space, public health, and environmental justice: The challenge of making cities ‘just green enough’

Factors Influencing Australian Local Governments’ Street-Tree Species Selection

In wilderness is the preservation of the world

Visit Griffith Research Online to discover more research on air quality.