This chapter addresses questions of the decision-making processes concerning investment in urban green spaces. It considers how evidence is deployed in processes of governance, and how nuanced understandings of costs and wellbeing benefits are backgrounded as evidence becomes a bargaining chip in a struggle for resources. Calling on empirical research conducted in the city of Sheffield, this chapter examines these issues through the lens of the everyday work of practitioners and professionals. The chapter highlights the importance of logics of action and inaction, revealing the effects of stakeholders’ reasons for choosing not to take actions that strengthen the links between green spaces and mental wellbeing.
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Dobson, J., & Dempsey, N. (2020). Mind the Gap: Does What We Know About Greenspace and Wellbeing Change What We Do? In Cities and Nature (Vol. Part F334, pp. 143–165). Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-44480-8_7
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