History of Seoul’s Parks and Green Space Policies: Focusing on Policy Changes in Urban Development
Land, 2022 Globally, urban areas have been expanding rapidly since industrialization. In South Korea, urban policy has evolved according to urban development, but the change in parks and green spaces policy for a pleasant urban environment is insignificant.
Jeonghee Choi, Gunwoo Kim
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Promoting Sustainable Environments through Urban Green Spaces: Insights from Kenya
, 2023 Kenya has experienced rapid population growth and urbanization in recent years leading to major changes in its natural environment. Urban infrastructure has a significant influence on carbon emissions and environmental degradation. Urban green spaces are
Arnold Mwanzu +3 more
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Green Spaces as an Indicator of Urban Health: Evaluating Its Changes in 28 Mega-Cities
Remote Sensing, 2017 Urban green spaces can yield considerable health benefits to urban residents. Assessing these health benefits is a key step for managing urban green spaces for human health and wellbeing in cities. In this study, we assessed the change of health benefits
Conghong Huang +4 more
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Scientific African, 2023 Urban green spaces enhance cities' natural beauty, boost biodiversity, and promote the health and happiness of city residents, among other benefits. Despite the benefits of urban green spaces, their spatial configuration and composition are impacted by ...
Kennedy Nazombe, Odala Nambazo
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Is level of neighbourhood green space associated with physical activity in green space? [PDF]
, 2013 Background There is accumulating evidence that greater availability of green space in a neighbourhood is associated with health benefits for the local population.
Pearce, Jamie; id_orcid +8 more
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Green space, urbanity, and health: how strong is the relation? [PDF]
Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 2006 Study objectives: To investigate the strength of the relation between the amount of green space in people’s living environment and their perceived general health. This relation is analysed for different age and socioeconomic groups.
Maas, J. +4 more
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An Analysis of Urban Land Use Changes in Tabriz using Land Transformation Model [PDF]
نشریه جغرافیا و برنامهریزی, 2016 Urban sprawl and land use changes are one of the fundamental challenges facing urban planning in recent years. Therefore, modeling these changes is considered as an important tool by planners, economists, ecologists and environmentalists.
Mir satar Sadrmosavi +2 more
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The association between green space and cause-specific mortality in urban New Zealand: an ecological analysis of green space utility [PDF]
, 2010 <b>Background:</b> There is mounting international evidence that exposure to green environments is associated with health benefits, including lower mortality rates.
Mitchell Richard +17 more
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, 2023 At a time of rising urbanisation and climate change, urban green spaces (UGSs) are an essential element to help adapt to extreme weather events. Especially in urban core areas, heat and drought are regarded as human stress factors.
Ulrich Schumacher
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Benefits of urban green spaces in noise, air quality and thermal comfort: the case study of Bragança [PDF]
, 2010 Urban green areas provide multiple environmental services, contributing to high-quality environments in our cities. With the purpose of evaluating the influence of urban green spaces in air quality, noise and thermal comfort, a research was developed ...
Ribeiro, A.C. +3 more
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