A spatial framework for targeting urban planning for pollinators and people with local stakeholders: A route to healthy, blossoming communities?

Environmental Research

Volumn 158, Issue , 2017, Pages 255-268

  Bellamy, Chloe C ^a   van der Jagt, Alexander P N ^a   Barbour, Shelley ^a   Smith, Mike ^b   Moseley, Darren ^a  

^a FOREST RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^b EcoSol   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Health and well being; Multiscale habitat suitability model; Nature based solutions; Stakeholder engagement; Urban planning

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; FLY; FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT QUALITY; INFRASTRUCTURE PLANNING; LAND COVER; POLLINATOR; REMOTE SENSING; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; STAKEHOLDER; URBAN PLANNING;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BUMBLEBEE; CITY PLANNING; COMMUNITY; GARDENING; HABITAT; HABITAT QUALITY; HUMAN; LANDSCAPE; LEARNING; POLLINATOR; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCOTLAND; SPECIES; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; URBAN AREA; VEGETATION; WELLBEING; WILDLIFE; ANIMAL; BEE; CITY; DIPTERA; ECOSYSTEM; PHYSIOLOGY; POLLINATION; REMOTE SENSING; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

EDINBURGH [SCOTLAND]; SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

APOIDEA; BOMBUS (GENUS);

ANIMALS; BEES; BIODIVERSITY; CITIES; CITY PLANNING; DIPTERA; ECOSYSTEM; HUMANS; POLLINATION; REMOTE SENSING TECHNOLOGY; SCOTLAND; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 85021282269     PISSN: 00139351     EISSN: 10960953     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2017.06.023     Document Type: Article

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