GoGreenRoutes GoGreenRoutes is a multi-dimensional project focusing on nature based solutions to enhance and sustain the termed coined 360-health in the urban context. This means we look at health in terms of the physical, […]
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Why Knowledge is Power? Innovative Knowledge Ecosystem to Seed Ideas for GOGREEN ROUTES H2020 Project on Urban Health – Tadhg MacIntyre
The year 2020 has brought into focus the concept of wicked problems-seemingly intractable challenges that are both complex and interconnected with other problems. COVID-19 had demonstrated in dramatic terms how human health is interconnected to […]

Publication: Enable, Reconnect and Augment: A New ERA of Virtual Nature Research and Application
Research Impact: Technology is paradoxically increasing our connection to nature, at least during COVID19 restrictions when we cannot all physically get to nature. Photo sharing of green spaces for example have been inked to higher […]

Publication: Exploring Extreme Sport Athletes’ Nature Interactions: From Well-Being to Sustainability
“We are like islands in the sea, separate on the surface but connected in the deep.” William James The concept of ‘Blue Mind’ coined by ocean scientist Wallace J. Nichols (2014) which has popularized water-based […]

GOING GREEN AS A PATHWAY TO WELL-BEING – Dr Tadhg MacIntyre
Think about your last visit to nature. Was it to a forest trail? An urban park? Or was it alongside a waterway? Our research at the University of Limerick studying memory for physical activity would […]