Seeing Community for the Trees: The Links among Contact with Natural Environments, Community Cohesion, and Crime

BioScience

Volumn 65, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 1141-1153

  Weinstein, Netta ^a   Balmford, Andrew ^b   Dehaan, Cody R ^c   Gladwell, Valerie ^d   Bradbury, Richard B ^e   Amano, Tatsuya ^b  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

^e RSPB CENTRE FOR CONSERVATION SCIENCE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

community cohesion; crime; nature; SDT; well being

Indexed keywords

EID: 84960949337     PISSN: 00063568     EISSN: 15253244     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biosci/biv151     Document Type: Review

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