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Innovative Approaches to Researching Landscape and Health

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Open Space: People Space 2

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Open Space: People Space 2
Edited ByCatharine Ward Thompson, Peter Aspinall, Simon Bell
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2010
eBook Published 26 March 2014
Pub. Location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203853252
Pages 312
eBook ISBN 9780203853252
Subjects Built Environment
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Ward Thompson, C., Aspinall, P., & Bell, S. (Eds.). (2010). Innovative Approaches to Researching Landscape and Health: Open Space: People Space 2 (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203853252

ABSTRACT

Our modern lifestyles often cause us to spend more time sitting behind a desk than being active outdoors. At the same time, our general health is deteriorating. The alarming rise in obesity, sedentary lifestyles and mental ill-health across the developed world has resulted in an urgent desire to understand how the environment, in particular the outdoor environment, influences health.

This book addresses the growing interest in salutogenic environments - landscapes that support healthy lifestyles and promote well-being – and the need for innovative methods to research them. Drawing on multidisciplinary approaches from environmental psychology, health sciences, urban design, landscape architecture and horticulture, it questions how future research can be better targeted to inform policy and practice in health promotion.

The contributing authors are international experts in researching landscape, health and the environment, drawn together by OPENspace directors who have a unique reputation in this area. This pioneering book is a valuable resource for postgraduate researchers and practitioners in both environmental and health studies.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter |6 pages

Introduction

part |2 pages

Part I: Affordances in the landscape: a theoretical approach

chapter 1|24 pages

Affordances and the perception of landscape: an inquiry into environmental perception and aesthetics

chapter 2|42 pages

Using behaviour mapping to investigate healthy outdoor environments for children and families: conceptual framework, procedures and applications

part |2 pages

Part II: Evidence on the relationship between landscape and health

chapter 3|20 pages

Nearby nature and human health: looking at mechanisms and their implications

chapter 4|23 pages

Active landscapes: the methodological challenges in developing the evidence on urban environments and physical activity

chapter 5|41 pages

Using affordances as a health-promoting tool in a therapeutic garden

part |2 pages

Part III: Different perspectives on methodology

chapter 6|16 pages

Opening space for project pursuit: affordance, restoration and chills

chapter 7|30 pages

On environmental preference: applying conjoint analysis to visiting parks and buying houses

part |2 pages

Part IV: Applications in practice: spatial structure, landscape design and landscape use

chapter 8|19 pages

Feeling good and feeling safe in the landscape: a ‘syntactic’ approach

chapter 9|27 pages

Landscape quality and quality of life

part |2 pages

Part V: Conclusions

chapter 10|20 pages

Challenges for research in landscape and health

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