Perspectives on understanding and measuring the social, cultural and biodiversity benefits of urban greening

This publication has arisen from Project 6, one of the seven projects conducted within the Clean Air and Urban Landscapes Hub, that aimed to establish a network of urban greening study sites across Australian urban centres to understand and measure the multiple benefits of urban greening, focussing on outcomes for biodiversity, culture and human health and wellbeing. An important output from this project is to share the methods and approaches that can be adapted by researchers and practitioners for future use at urban greening projects at a range of different sites and scales. The use of a network of study sites has provided opportunities to study the process of how urban greening initiatives are implemented, how to study them from a socio-ecological perspective, and how or why they are successful. This knowledge can inform future urban greening projects and research designed to understand the benefits and outcomes. In doing so it will provide an evidence base and methodology for measuring and understanding social, cultural and biodiversity benefits of urban greening initiatives according to landscape context, and scale.