Online economic tool to quantify the health benefits of municipal investments in urban greenspaces

7.2. Public Project Overview:
The project will develop an online tool to quantify the economic return on investment resulting from improvements in public health attributed to investments in urban greenspaces. The tool will focus on three pathways: improvements in physical health, improvements in mental health and health benefits associated with improved climate resiliency. The tool will provide provincial, municipal and community organizations a mechanism to support informed program, policy and planning decisions and will help users better understand and communicate the value of greenspace investments.

Faculty Supervisor:

Jeffrey Wilson

Student:

Sadia Gondal;Xiao Xiao

Partner:

Green Analytics

Discipline:

Environmental sciences

Sector:

University:

University of Waterloo

Program: