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Exploring perceived restoration, landscape perception, and place attachment in historical districts: insights from diverse visitors

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2023
Improving the quality of the built environment to enhance people’s mental health is gaining traction across various fields, precipitating valuable actions on the wave of “Healthy China 2030” initiative.
Jiaying Li   +4 more
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While Experiencing a Forest Trail, Variation in Landscape Is Just as Important as Content: A Virtual Reality Experiment of Cross-Country Skiing in Estonia

open access: yesLand, 2023
It has long been understood that diversity is a key aspect of what makes a landscape attractive but to what degree of diversity and how is it experienced?
Peeter Vassiljev, Simon Bell
doaj   +1 more source

Urban landscape as a restorative environment: preferences and design considerations

open access: yesActa Agriculturae Slovenica, 2006
In this paper, the idea of considering public preferences in design of urban landscapes as restorative environments is explored. A visual landscape preference research was conducted among user groups in Slovenia.
Tanja SIMONIČ
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Research on the psychologically restorative effects of campus common spaces from the perspective of health

open access: yesFrontiers in Public Health, 2023
Contemporary college students are suffering from increasingly serious psychological health problems, such as attention fatigue, psychological stress and negative emotions.
Weihong Guo   +6 more
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How restorative landscapes can benefit psychological and physiological responses: a pilot study of human–naturerelationships in Sweden and Taiwan [Elektronisk resurs]

open access: yes, 2023
Restorative landscapes provide people with the opportunity to experience nature. This pilot study aimed to determine whether cultural differences affect psychological and physiological responses to restorative landscapes.
Palsdottir, Anna Maria,   +3 more
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The effect of slight thinning of managed coniferous forest on landscape appreciation and psychological restoration

open access: yesProgress in Earth and Planetary Science, 2017
We investigated the influence of slight thinning (percentage of woods: 16.6%, basal area: 9.3%) on landscape appreciation and the psychological restorative effect of an on-site setting by exposing respondents to an ordinarily managed coniferous woodland.
Norimasa Takayama   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Analysis of Landscape Character Assessment and Cultural Ecosystem Services Evaluation Frameworks for Peri-Urban Landscape Planning: A Case Study of Harku Municipality, Estonia

open access: yesLand, 2023
This study combined landscape character assessment (LCA) and cultural ecosystem services (CES) frameworks to evaluate human well-being in the peri-urban area of Harku Municipality, Estonia.
Fiona Nevzati   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Effect of an illegal open dump in an urban forest on landscape appreciation

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2022
Rubbish in a forest environment is a great threat to this ecosystem, but this threat may also apply to the lost benefits for visitors to the forest. Previous studies proved that forest areas have a positive effect on obtaining psychological relaxation in
Ernest Bielinis   +4 more
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Creating Restorative Nearby Green Spaces for Knowledge Workers: Theoretical Mechanisms, Site Evaluation Criteria, and Design Guidelines

open access: yes, 2022
Knowledge workers drive social and economic development in contemporary cities but often exhibit poor psychological and physical health because of sedentary work, long-term and intense mental labor, and high-level occupational competition.
Hu, XL, Liu, XM, Jiang, B, Li, JL
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Forest landscape restoration: state of play [PDF]

open access: yesRoyal Society Open Science, 2020
Tree planting has been widely touted as an inexpensive way to meet multiple international environmental goals for mitigating climate change, reversing landscape degradation and restoring biodiversity restoration. The Bonn Challenge and New York Declaration on Forests, motivated by widespread deforestation and forest degradation, call for restoring 350 ...
John A. Stanturf, Stephanie Mansourian
openaire   +3 more sources

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