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Dr Danielle Shanahan

- Verified email at vuw.ac.nz - Cited by 7585

Daire Shanahan

- Verified email at bristol.ac.uk - Cited by 891

The academic environment: the students' perspective

…, J Pickup, N Raval, D Shanahan… - European Journal of …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Dental education is regarded as a complex, demanding and often stressful pedagogical
procedure. Undergraduates, while enrolled in programmes of 4–6 years duration, are …

[HTML][HTML] A review of the benefits of nature experiences: More than meets the eye

LS Franco, DF Shanahan, RA Fuller - International journal of …, 2017 - mdpi.com
Evidence that experiences of nature can benefit people has accumulated rapidly. Yet
perhaps because of the domination of the visual sense in humans, most research has …

Messaging matters: A systematic review of the conservation messaging literature

…, K Moon, JA Robinson, MJ Selinske, D Shanahan… - Biological …, 2019 - Elsevier
Changing human behavior and attitudes are key to conserving global biodiversity. Despite
evidence from other disciplines that strategic messaging can influence behavior and …

Cities are hotspots for threatened species

CD Ives, PE Lentini, CG Threlfall, K Ikin… - Global Ecology and …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Although urbanization impacts many species, there is little information on the patterns of
occurrences of threatened species in urban relative to non‐urban areas. By assessing the …

[HTML][HTML] Health benefits from nature experiences depend on dose

DF Shanahan, R Bush, KJ Gaston, BB Lin, J Dean… - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
Nature within cities will have a central role in helping address key global public health
challenges associated with urbanization. However, there is almost no guidance on how …

Doses of neighborhood nature: the benefits for mental health of living with nature

DTC Cox, DF Shanahan, HL Hudson… - AIBS …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Experiences of nature provide many mental-health benefits, particularly for people living in
urban areas. The natural characteristics of city residents' neighborhoods are likely to be …

[PDF][PDF] Catastrophic declines in wilderness areas undermine global environment targets

JEM Watson, DF Shanahan, M Di Marco, J Allan… - Current Biology, 2016 - cell.com
Humans have altered terrestrial ecosystems for millennia [1], yet wilderness areas still
remain as vital refugia where natural ecological and evolutionary processes operate with …

The health benefits of urban nature: how much do we need?

DF Shanahan, RA Fuller, R Bush, BB Lin… - BioScience, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Over 30 years of research has shown that urban nature is a promising tool for enhancing the
physical, psychological, and social well-being of the world's growing urban population …

[HTML][HTML] Opportunity or orientation? Who uses urban parks and why

BB Lin, RA Fuller, R Bush, KJ Gaston, DF Shanahan - PLoS one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
There is growing recognition that interactions with nature provide many desirable human
well-being outcomes, yet increasing urbanization is degrading the quality and quantity of …

[HTML][HTML] Doses of nearby nature simultaneously associated with multiple health benefits

DTC Cox, DF Shanahan, HL Hudson, RA Fuller… - International journal of …, 2017 - mdpi.com
Exposure to nature provides a wide range of health benefits. A significant proportion of these
are delivered close to home, because this offers an immediate and easily accessible …