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Dr Camilla Royle's Outputs (7)

Look after gardens and they look after you: Cultivating wellbeing in a pandemic through a popular TV gardening programme (2024)
Journal Article
Royle, C. (2024). Look after gardens and they look after you: Cultivating wellbeing in a pandemic through a popular TV gardening programme. Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, 7(5), 2204-2222. https://doi.org/10.1177/25148486241281229

Over the past few years there has been intense policy interest in the idea that nature-related activities such as gardening are good for wellbeing. Several studies have indeed found links between such activities and self-reported wellbeing. However,... Read More about Look after gardens and they look after you: Cultivating wellbeing in a pandemic through a popular TV gardening programme.

Silver linings and wishful thinking? More than human geographies of the coronavirus (2020)
Journal Article
Royle, C. (2020). Silver linings and wishful thinking? More than human geographies of the coronavirus. Human geography, 13(3), 310-313. https://doi.org/10.1177/1942778620953694

The COVID-19 pandemic and the associated worldwide lockdown measures have several implications for geographical understandings of society–nature relations and of animal life. For some, the temporary lowering of carbon dioxide emissions during the loc... Read More about Silver linings and wishful thinking? More than human geographies of the coronavirus.

Complexity, Dynamism, and Agency: How Can Dialectical Biology Inform Geography? (2017)
Journal Article
Royle, C. (2017). Complexity, Dynamism, and Agency: How Can Dialectical Biology Inform Geography?. Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography, 49(5), 1427-1445. https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.12332

Dialectical approaches, variously interpreted, have been advocated for by geographers for several decades. At the same time, critical environmental geography has recently become dominated by vital materialist strands of thought, the advocates of whic... Read More about Complexity, Dynamism, and Agency: How Can Dialectical Biology Inform Geography?.