{"id":60495,"date":"2026-08-31T08:00:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T06:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ils-forschung.de\/?p=60495"},"modified":"2026-08-28T12:55:59","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T10:55:59","slug":"learning-from-real-world-conditions-to-advance-green-care-for-mental-health-equity-in-the-global-north-protocol-for-a-transdisciplinary-multi-scalar-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ils-forschung.de\/en\/2026\/08\/learning-from-real-world-conditions-to-advance-green-care-for-mental-health-equity-in-the-global-north-protocol-for-a-transdisciplinary-multi-scalar-project\/","title":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1136\/bmjopen-2025-114034\">Learning from real-world conditions to advance green care for mental health equity in the Global North: protocol for a transdisciplinary multi-scalar project<\/a>"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:1144px;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:1.92%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:0px;--awb-spacing-left-large:1.92%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p>ILS researchers Noriko Otsuka and Kathrin Specht, together with other colleagues, have published an article in the journal \u2018BMJ Open\u2019. This is the first general protocol paper of the project \u2018GreenMe\u2019 and examines the extent to which Green Care\u2014that is, the use of nature in everyday life, nature-based health promotion, and nature-based therapy\u2014can contribute to improving mental health and well-being. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1136\/bmjopen-2025-114034\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1136\/bmjopen-2025-114034<\/a><\/strong>. Further current selected papers can be found <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ils-forschung.de\/en\/professional-publications\/selected-papers\/\">here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":10042,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-publikationen-en"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Learning from real-world conditions to advance green care for mental health equity in the Global North: protocol for a transdisciplinary multi-scalar project - ILS - Institut f\u00fcr Landes- und Stadtentwicklungsforschung<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ils-forschung.de\/en\/2026\/08\/learning-from-real-world-conditions-to-advance-green-care-for-mental-health-equity-in-the-global-north-protocol-for-a-transdisciplinary-multi-scalar-project\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Learning from real-world conditions to advance green care for mental health equity in the Global North: protocol for a transdisciplinary multi-scalar project - 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