Prominent researchers from around the world will present their findings on the health benefit of urban greening at the ' Living Green , Liveable Cities ' Research Symposium on 4 - 26 February 2025 at Expo 2023 in Doha , Qatar .
Organized by the International Association of Horticultural Producers ( AIPH ) in collaboration with Cities & Health and Expo 2023 Doha Qatar , the symposium present research under three themes that demonstrate the contribution of ' living green ' to respectable and resilient cities : Social and Cultural Health , Health and Wellbeing , and Environmental Health .
The symposium comprises four academic session focalize on these key themes . Each sitting will include a talk by a keynote speaker as well as introduction of research finding from other fundamental persons studying the subjects . Keynote utterer include Dr. Bruno Marques , President of the International Federation of Landscape Architects ( IFLA ) ; Judith van der Poel , Director of Niek Roozen Landscape ; and Dr. Gayle Souter - Brown , Special Envoy from IFLA to the International Society of Urban Health .
In the survive Green for ' Social and Cultural Health ' session , Dr. Bruno Marques will search the family relationship between culture , environment , and the construction of therapeutic environments . He will draw on inquiry link societal and cultural determinants of wellness with dissimilar views of health and eudaimonia . Crucially , Bruno will present compelling grounds that incorporating non - Western perspectives can plow wellness inequality and offer valuable insight into the intention of curative environments .
Judith van der Poel will lead the Living Green for ' Environmental Health ' session , presenting her oeuvre with university and municipalities to combine knowledge of the gist of green result for typical areas in cities . Together , they have look into which types of locations have the turgid wallop on urban center health .
start the populate Green for ' Health and Wellbeing ' seance , Dr. Gayle Souter - Brown will speak about research wall how urban greening can be utilized to impact the wellness of ' ostensibly well ' people . While there is a wealth of evidence that greenery can improve wellness in ghastly or disabled people , how plants impact those who are ' plainly well ' is a freshly emerging field of subject .
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Dr. Audrey Timm , Technical Initiatives Manager , AIPH , says , " A core feature article of this symposium is the link between scientific discipline and practice , which has immense relevance for the futurity of cities , even outside the subject field of ornamental horticulture . AIPH is enthralled with the diversity and caliber of research that is presented in this program . "
In addition to the inquiry sessions , the symposium includes a high muckamuck spell of Expo 2023 Doha Qatar and circuit of key location within the Doha Municipality have-to doe with to the symposium ’s themes .
The Research Symposium attach to the special Cities & Health diary issue , also titled ' Living Green , Liveable Cities . ' This special issue was instigated by AIPH and Expo 2023 Doha Qatar to inquire the science and drill supporting the concept showcased by the Expo of create livable and healthy urban environment through urban center rejuvenation .
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