Indicators to support healthy urban gardening in urban management

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 621, Issue , 2018, Pages 863-871

  Schram Bijkerk, Dieneke ^a   Otte, Piet ^a   Dirven, Liesbet ^a   Breure, Anton M ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Community health; Ecosystem services; Gardening; Indicators; Lifestyle; Urban soils

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; DECISION MAKING; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; ECOSYSTEMS; PARKS; SOILS; URBAN PLANNING;

COMMUNITY HEALTH; ECOSYSTEM HEALTH; ECOSYSTEM SERVICES; GARDENING; LIFESTYLE; LIVING ENVIRONMENT; SOIL ECOSYSTEMS; URBAN GARDEN; URBAN MANAGEMENT; URBAN SOILS;

HEALTH;

ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; GARDEN CITY; GREENSPACE; HEALTH IMPACT; LIFESTYLE; LITERATURE REVIEW; SOIL ECOSYSTEM; URBAN ECOSYSTEM; VALUATION;

ARTICLE; CITY PLANNING; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM HEALTH; ENVIRONMENTAL DECISION MAKING; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; GARDENING; HEALTH ECONOMICS; HEALTH IMPACT ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; LAND USE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; SOCIAL NETWORK; SOIL QUALITY; SUPPORT GROUP; URBAN HEALTH; URBANIZATION; WELLBEING; CITY; HEALTH PROMOTION; SOIL;

CITIES; GARDENING; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; SOIL;

EID: 85036612635     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.11.160     Document Type: Article

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