Woodland improvements in deprived urban communities: What impact do they have on people's activities and quality of life?

Landscape and Urban Planning

Volumn 118, Issue , 2013, Pages 79-89

  Ward Thompson, Catharine ^a   Roe, Jenny ^b   Aspinall, Peter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Activity; Deprivation; Green space; Health; Urban forestry; Wellbeing

Indexed keywords

HOUSES; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES;

CROSS-SECTIONAL SURVEYS; DEMOGRAPHIC PROFILE; DEPRIVATION; GREEN SPACES; NEIGHBOURHOOD QUALITIES; RESIDENTIAL ENVIRONMENT; URBAN FORESTRY; WELLBEING;

HEALTH;

ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; GREENSPACE; LAND MANAGEMENT; LAND USE; QUALITY OF LIFE; RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT; SURVEYING; URBAN DEVELOPMENT; URBAN PLANNING; WOODLAND;

SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84882844864     PISSN: 01692046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2013.02.001     Document Type: Article

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