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International and national policies are being used to prioritise increases in urban forest coverage and diversity, support equitable access to urban greenspaces, and advance sound environmental governance outcomes. Yet, the relationship between people’s feelings about urban trees and public policy remains under-examined. Drawing on a unique dataset from an email-a-tree initiative, the objectives of this study were to identify how concern and connection for urban trees is expressed and determine how insights from the initiative might inform urban forest governance. We examined emails sent to ...

Background: The physical health burdens and health-related behaviours (e.g., smoking, poor nutrition, sedentariness) associated with substance use disorders necessitate an integrated treatment response. Yet service fragmentation can preclude physical health from being addressed within specialist alcohol and other drug (AOD) treatment services that typically operate outside of primary care settings. Relative to the general population, people living with substance use problems are at an increased risk for developing many types of chronic illness, including cardiovascular disease, respiratory dis...

Anyone who spends time in Mexico City will spend much of it in traffic. One of the most clogged cities in the world, residents will lose on average 158

Aims: To describe patient-reported physical activity and step count trajectory and explore perceived barriers and enablers to physical activity amongst people with obesity participating in a chronic care programme whilst awaiting arthroplasty. Design: Convergent parallel mixed-method study. Method: A patient cohort derived from a longitudinal sample of adults with end-stage osteoarthritis and obesity from a chronic care programme whilst awaiting primary total knee or hip arthroplasty (n = 97) was studied. Physical activity was measured at baseline (entry to the wait list) and before surgery (9...

Internationalisation of women-owned firms is considered a new strategy for unlocking the full economic potential of a country. However, there has been a desultory work on gender and trade, particularly the epistemological and methodological approaches to explore this phenomenon, which has received inadequate attention. Drawing on the institution-based- theory and incorporating the feminist perspective, this study identifies barriers to socio-economic freedom as a multidimensional concept that influences the internationalisation of women entrepreneurship. Using mixed methods and based on findin...