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Dear Readers,

in a new article published in the journal Ecological Indicators (LINK) entitled “Accessibility to urban green spaces: A critical review of WHO recommendations in the light of tree-covered areas assessment” we present the results of our research on the application of WHO’s criteria to assess urban residents’ access to green areas. As it turns out, some recommendations should be broadened to include additional prerequisites. We invite you to read our proposals and congratulate Patrycja, the first author of the article!

Dear Readers,

the journal Quaestiones Geographicae (LINK) has published a scientific article presenting the results of our research examining how the location of completing a survey about the ecosystem services received from trees, whether in a building or outdoors, influences respondents’ perceptions of them. We invite you to read the results of our research and congratulate the project manager – prof. Piotr Matczak, who is the first author of the publication!

Dear Readers,

the journal Land Use Policy (LINK) has published a scientific article presenting the results of our research conducted for residents of the municipalities of Nysa and Racibórz using the Q-deliberation method we developed. We invite you to read the results of our research and congratulate Krzysztof Mączka, the first author of the publication and the originator of this whole endeavor!

Dear Readers,

the fruit of our project is another article, in which we present psychological and physical components in forming preferences on urban greenery management using the example of tree cutting. We invite You to read the article on the website of the journal Environmental Science & Policy (LINK), and we congratulate Daria, the first author of the publication, on another success!

Dear Readers,

we have already published our fifth scientific article! We present here a comparison of ways of evaluating ecosystem services in two Polish municipalities: Nysa and Raciborz. In addition, we propose a new research approach to identify the most important ecosystem benefits provided in a community, taking into account the local context.

The article can be found on the Ambio journal website under this link.

As always, we encourage you to read and share the results of our work!

Dear Readers, 

With the end of last year, the time, although extended, of running our project has come to an end.
We will continue to work on the appraisal of the project results and the publication of the articles, that we plan to make available to the world based on the research conducted in the project.

At this point, we can share with you a popularization description of the results of our project, which is available to read here and in the publications tab. We also would like to invite you to visit our website again, as further publications that are the fruit of our work will soon appear here!

Dear Readers,

We are pleased to announce that another article written by our team has been published. It presents the databases that we have developed based on the materials collected during a series of different research activities.

All databases have also been published in open access on the portal “Most Wiedzy“, where everybody interested in the subject can find them. The published article additionally presents how these databases were collected and presented – you can read it on the Data journal website.

We encourage you to read the article, as well as to further use these databases for scientific purposes!

Dear Readers,

the third article based on the research conducted in our project has already been published.

The article presenting the influence of place attachment on attitudes towards who should decide on the cutting down trees on private land for two types of land is now available for all interested parties at the link.

The article was written with guest contributions from Daria Paniotova-Mączka and Piotr Jabkowski and has been accepted for publication in the Frontiers in Psychology.

We congratulate the authors and encourage you to read it!

Dear Readers,

a new paper based on the research conducted in our project has just been published.

On the Urban Forestry & Urban Greening journal website, you can read the results of our work on improving the method of calculating the loss of ecosystem services due to tree felling.

We highly encourage you to have a look!

The results of our research are reaching an increasingly wide range of experts. We recently had the pleasure of presenting them at the Urban Forestry Days international conference held March 23-24, 2021.

We presented two video posters at the conference:

You can read more about the conference itself at the link.

We also encourage you to follow the new tab that appeared on the site – publications. It will include all the articles that were written as a result of our research.