This open access book brings together 16 specially commissioned chapters drawn from a range of
different professional-practitioner and academic global perspectives on the importance of the
relationship between people and green and blue spaces. It focuses on issues surrounding the
importance of natural environments on public health and wellbeing and the environmental
cultural and social importance of green and blue spaces that can result through responsible
and sustainable adaptive management processes. It explores how the Covid-19 pandemic forced
reconsiderations of our relationship with these natural spaces and highlights the important
impact of the pace of climate change. While not pretending to have the answers the stimulating
and imaginative contributions embrace rich perspectives drawn from backgrounds as diverse as
heritage studies tourism conservation geography policy formulation public health
environmental health research methods history literature art and theology.
