Workplace settings and wellbeing: Greenspace use and views contribute to employee wellbeing at peri-urban business sites

Landscape and Urban Planning

Volumn 138, Issue , 2015, Pages 32-40

  Gilchrist, Kathryn ^a   Brown, Caroline ^b   Montarzino, Alicia ^b  

^a SCOTTISH CROP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Employee wellbeing; Green space; Restorative environments; Science park; Workplace

Indexed keywords

PERSONNEL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; VEGETATION;

EMPLOYEE WELLBEING; GREEN SPACES; RESTORATIVE ENVIRONMENT; SCIENCE PARK; WORKPLACE;

URBAN GROWTH;

GREENSPACE; HEALTH STATUS; OPEN SPACE; PERIURBAN AREA; QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; VEGETATION TYPE; WORKPLACE;

SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

MAGNOLIOPHYTA;

EID: 84924021164     PISSN: 01692046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2015.02.004     Document Type: Article

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