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Impact of Park Renovations on Park Use and Park-Based Physical Activity [PDF]
Journal of Physical Activity and Health, 2015 Background:Given the concerns about low rates of physical activity among low-income minority youth, many communitybased organizations are investing in the creation or renovation of public parks to encourage youth to become more physically active. To what degree park renovations accomplish this goal is not known.Methods:We used the System for Observing ...
Deborah A, Cohen +8 more
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Frontiers in Sustainable Cities, 2022 Urban green spaces have shown to be beneficial for the physical and mental wellbeing of the general population—which particularly holds true during an unprecedented, stressful situation such as the COVID-19 pandemic.
Carolina Rojas Quezada +5 more
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Conservation & Society, 2015 In British Columbia (BC), Canada, the provincial government and First Nations have recently created an innovative new form of collaboratively managed protected area.
Jessica Stronghill +2 more
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Simulating parking for establishing parking prices
Procedia Computer Science, 2017 Abstract: Urban parking prices do not reflect spatially heterogeneous parking supply and demand. We present an agent-based algorithm for establishing on-and off-street parking prices in a heterogeneous urban space that guarantee a predetermined uniform level of occupation.
Nir Fulman, Itzhak Benenson
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Ornamental Vascular Plant Diversity in Basilicata (Southern Italy)
PlantsThis investigation focuses on urban ornamental greenery, a field of research that is still relatively unexplored in Italy but is becoming increasingly important both from a botanical point of view and in relation to sustainable land management and ...
Emilio Di Gristina +4 more
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Parental influence on children’s physical activity in urban green spaces
İstanbul Üniversitesi Orman Fakültesi Dergisi, 2016 This study explores parents’ influence on children’s physical activity (PA) in urban green spaces (UGS). In this study, “children” includes both younger children and adolescents, ages 1-18.
Abdullah Akpınar, Murat Cankurt
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A Checklist of the Ornamental Vascular Flora of Sicily
PlantsBased on literature data and new field investigations, a checklist of the ornamental vascular flora of Sicily is presented. Trees, shrubs, herbaceous, and succulent plants growing in street trees, parks, private gardens, and historic villas of Sicily are
Emilio Di Gristina +6 more
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ProceedingsUrban green infrastructure captures an appreciation of urban green as essential infrastructure that is as important to a good quality of urban life as technical or social infrastructures.
Paraskevi Karanikola +3 more
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"The White Men Bought the Forests": Conservation and Contestation in Guinea-Bissau, Western Africa
Conservation & Society, 2012 Both fortress and community-based approaches to conservation have shown poor (sometimes negative) results in terms of environmental protection and poverty reduction. Either approach can also trigger grassroots resistance.
Marina Padrão Temudo
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