Development of the natural environment scoring tool (NEST)

Urban Forestry and Urban Greening

Volumn 29, Issue , 2018, Pages 322-333

  Gidlow, Christopher ^a   van Kempen, Elise ^b   Smith, Graham ^a   Triguero Mas, Margarita ^c,d,e   Kruize, Hanneke ^b   Gražulevičienė, Regina ^f   Ellis, Naomi ^a   Hurst, Gemma ^a   Masterson, Daniel ^a   Cirach, Marta ^c,d,e   van den Berg, Magdalena ^g   Smart, Wim ^b   Dėdelė, Audrius ^f   Maas, Jolanda ^g   Nieuwenhuijsen, Mark J ^c,d,e  

^a STAFFORDSHIRE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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

^c CENTRE FOR RESEARCH IN ENVIRONMENTAL EPIDEMIOLOGY CREAL   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^e CIBER EPIDEMIOLOGÍA Y SALUD PÚBLICA CIBERESP   (Spain)

^f VYTAUTAS MAGNUS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

^g VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Audit; Environment; Green space; Health; Landscape assessment; Natural environment; Quality

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; DATA ACQUISITION; ENVIRONMENTAL AUDITING; ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY; GREENSPACE; LANDSCAPE; NEIGHBORHOOD; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS; TYPOLOGY;

BARCELONA [CATALONIA]; CATALONIA; DOETINCHEM; ENGLAND; GELDERLAND; KAUNAS; LITHUANIA; NETHERLANDS; SPAIN; STOKE ON TRENT [ENGLAND]; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 85041491408     PISSN: 16188667     EISSN: 16108167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ufug.2017.12.007     Document Type: Article

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