Opportunity or orientation? Who uses urban parks and why

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Lin, Brenda B ^a   Fuller, Richard A ^b   Bush, Robert ^b   Gaston, Kevin J ^c   Shanahan, Danielle F ^b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LIFESTYLE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NATIONAL PARK; NORMAL HUMAN; ORIENTATION; POPULATION GROWTH; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; URBAN AREA; URBAN POPULATION; URBANIZATION; WELLBEING; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUEENSLAND; RECREATION; URBAN POPULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84900400894     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0087422     Document Type: Article

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