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BlueHealth Toolbox

The BlueHealth Toolbox is designed to help planners, designers and decision-makers deliver health-promoting urban planning and design.

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Safe urban bathing water

Identifying the governance conditions required to create safe urban bathing water sites in the Netherlands.

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Systematic review of blue space and human health

This paper is a review of studies looking at associations between outdoor blue spaces and human health and well-being.

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Urban coastline: Tallinn

This study has examined the health and wellbeing impacts of enhancements to an urban coastline in the city of Tallinn, Estonia.

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Impact of a riverside intervention on health

This research has evaluated the impact of a recent urban riverside regeneration project on the Besòs River in Barcelona, Spain.

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Residential distance and recreational visits

This paper assesses residential distance and recreational visits to coastal and inland blue spaces, using survey data from eighteen countries.

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270 million visits made to English coastlines each year

Over 270 million visits made to England’s coastline each year. A new BlueHealth study highlights the importance of blue spaces for recreation.

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