Sara Barron

Sara Barron

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Academic Career Length

8Years (2019-Present)

(Calculated once Scilit publication data is synced: current year − year of first publication + 1)

Representative Publications

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1 May 2021 in Urban Forestry & Urban Greening
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Jonathan KingsleyJonathan Kingsley
Jonathan Kingsley
MEMonika Egerer
Monika Egerer
SNSonia Nuttman
Sonia Nuttman
LKLucy Keniger
Lucy Keniger
PPPhilip Pettitt
Philip Pettitt
PMPauline Marsh
Pauline Marsh

SBSara Barron
Sara Barron
SNSophie Nitoslawski
Sophie Nitoslawski
KWKathleen L. Wolf
Kathleen L. Wolf
AWAngie Woo
Angie Woo
EDErin Desautels
Erin Desautels
SSStephen R. J. Sheppard
Stephen R. J. Sheppard
It is increasingly evident that exposure to green landscape elements benefits human health. Urban green space in cities is also recognized as a crucial adaptation response to changes in climate and its subsequent effects. The exploration of conceptual and practical intersections between human health, green spaces, and climate action is needed. Evidence-based guidance is needed for stakeholders, practitioners, designers, and citizens in order to assess and manage urban green spaces that maximize co-benefits for both human health and climate resilience. This paper proposes interventions that provide strategic green space enhancement at the neighborhood and block scale. We propose eight tangible green space interventions and associated metrics to integrate climate resilience and population health co-benefits into urban green space design and planning: View from within, Plant entrances, Bring nature nearby, Retain the mature, Generate diversity, Create refuge, Connect experiences, and Optimize green infrastructure. These interventions represent a hierarchy of functional design concepts that respond to experiential qualities and physical/psychological dimensions of health, and which enhance resilience at a range of social scales from the individual to the neighborhood. The interventions also reveal additional research needs in green space design, particularly in neighborhood-level contexts.

27 April 2023 in Futures
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SBSara Barron
Sara Barron
KDKatherine Dunster
Katherine Dunster
NWNicholas S.G. Williams
Nicholas S.G. Williams
EREmily Jessica Rugel
Emily Jessica Rugel
RKRobert Kozak
Robert Kozak
SSStephen Sheppard
Stephen Sheppard

7 September 2025 in Trees, Forests and People
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ADAmari Davison
Amari Davison
SBSara Barron
Sara Barron
ABAmy Blood
Amy Blood
RTRichard Taylor
Richard Taylor

1 June 2026 in Landscape Architecture and Sustainability
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ADAmari Davison
Amari Davison
SBSara Barron
Sara Barron

10 April 2024 in Wellbeing, Space and Society
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RPRose Peterson
Rose Peterson
SBSara Barron
Sara Barron
EREmily J. Rugel
Emily J. Rugel
KLKate Lee
Kate Lee