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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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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
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Urban landscape as a restorative environment: preferences and design considerations
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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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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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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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
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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
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Effect of an illegal open dump in an urban forest on landscape appreciation
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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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]
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
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