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Key partners


NiCHE collaborates with a range of organisations to undertake health promotion interventions and research, to contribute to project design, to publicise research outcomes, to generate funding and to expand the health and nature field by developing partnerships across varing interest groups. NiCHE aims to be inclusive in its approach, encouraging identification of new research areas and welcoming opportunities for nature and health research to be utilsed. Some of our recent and current key partners are listed below including website links.

  • Parks Victoria
www.parkweb.vic.gov.au
  • VicHealth
www.vichealth.vic.gov.au
  • Western Hospital
www.wh.org.au/
  • City of Melbourne
www.melbourne.vic.gov.au
  • Centennial and Moore Park Trust
www.cp.nsw.gov.au
  • Parramatta Park Trust
www.ppt.nsw.gov.au
  • Delta Society Australia
www.deltasocietyaustralia.com.au
  • Trust For Nature
www.tfn.org.au
  • Department of Sustainability and Environment
www.dse.vic.gov.au/dse
  • Royal Talbot Rehabilitation Centre

www.austin.org.au

  • Australia's Open Barden Scheme

www.opengarden.org.au

 

 

Research partners

Other partnerships are developed from time to time with local councils, government bodies and non-government organisations to investigate specific issues, such as to develop stratergies to improve social capital and cohesion in communities or increase park usage. Opportunities to collaborate with international universites are also valued to combine ideas and lengthen the long arm of nature and heath research. A few of our previous and current research partners are listed here.

 
  • Hobson's Bay City Council
www.hobsons.vic.gov.au/
  • Whittlesea City Council
www.whittlesea.vic.gov.au/
  • City of Port Phillip Council
www.portphillip.vic.gov.au/
  • City of Knox
www.knox.vic.gov.au/
  • Jesuit Social Services
www.jss.org.au/

Links

NiCHE has compiled a list of web links from organisations whose interests also lie in the human health benefits associated with the natural environment, ecosystem health, sustainability, gardens, animals or the built environment.

  • IAPS International Association for People-Environment Studies
www.iaps-association.org
  • EDRA Environmental Design Research Association
www.edra.org
  • Cultivating Community
www.cultivatingcommunity.org.au
  • David Suzuki Foundation
www.davidsuzuki.org
  • Edith Cowan University- Consotium for Health and Ecology
www.chs.ecu.edu.au/research/ceh
  • ECOHEALTH Journal
www.ecohealth.net
  • The People and Parks Foundation
www.peopleandparks.org
  • Department of Human Geography, Stockholm University, Sweden
www.humangeo.su.se/eng/

The following links are to specific researchers who have not submitted projects into the NiCHE Clearinghouse but whose interests have covered aspects of human health and nature.

  • Terry Hartig, Associate Professor, Institute for Housing and Urban Research and Department of Psychology, Uppsala University, Sweden
www.ibf.uu.se/PERSON/terry/terry.html
  • Roderick J Lawrence, Professor, University Centre for Human Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Switzerland
http://ecolu-info.unige.ch
http://ecolu-info.unige.ch/cueh/staff/R.Lawrence.html