Land trusts, partnered with government agencies or acting alone, are working to conserve habitat, open space, and working landscapes on private land. Spending both public and …
Safety is an important dimension of access to green space. When parks are perceived as unsafe, people are unlikely to derive the health and community benefits from them. In this …
E Hoffimann, H Barros, AI Ribeiro - International journal of environmental …, 2017 - mdpi.com
Background: The provision of green spaces is an important health promotion strategy to encourage physical activity and to improve population health. Green space provision has to …
Y Xiao, D Wang, J Fang - Landscape and urban planning, 2019 - Elsevier
The benefits that urban green resources bring to humanity have received increasing attention, with the evidence from recent studies into public service provision—specifically …
HEW Wendel, RK Zarger, JR Mihelcic - Landscape and urban planning, 2012 - Elsevier
Green spaces are one important indicator of urban quality of life. Yet urban green space research is often carried out in industrialized nations, with relatively little known about green …
This article examines the distribution of parks in Baltimore, Maryland, as an environmental justice issue. In addition to established methods for measuring distribution of and access to …
J Byrne, J Wolch - Progress in human geography, 2009 - journals.sagepub.com
Geographic research on parks has been wide-ranging but has seldom examined how and why people use parks, leaving these questions to leisure science, which privileges socio …
Trails and routes have been indispensable to travel and tourism over the centuries, helping to form the basis of mobility patterns of the past and the present. This book is the first to …