Greenspace and wellbeing in Tehran: A relationship conditional on a neighbourhood's crime rate?

Urban Forestry and Urban Greening

Volumn 27, Issue , 2017, Pages 155-161

  Ambrey, Christopher L ^a   Shahni, Tara Jamali ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Attention restoration theory; Females; Gender; Geographic information systems; Moderator; Spatialerror model

Indexed keywords

EID: 85027568060     PISSN: 16188667     EISSN: 16108167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ufug.2017.08.003     Document Type: Article

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