What personal and environmental factors determine frequency of urban greenspace use?
What personal and environmental factors determine frequency of urban greenspace use?
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哪些个人和环境因素决定了城市绿地使用的频率？
DOI：
10.3390/ijerph110807977
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发表时间：
2014-08-07
影响因子：
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通讯作者：
Armsworth PR
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作者：
Dallimer M;Davies ZG;Irvine KN;Maltby L;Warren PH;Gaston KJ;Armsworth PR
对于许多人来说，城市绿地是他们接触自然世界的唯一场所。这令人担忧，因为越来越多的证据表明，接触大自然可以提高人类的福祉。因此，有一个令人信服的理由是增加人们使用城市绿地的频率。这可以通过鼓励以下两种互补的方式来实现：(I) 非使用者开始参观城市绿地； （二）现有用户访问次数较多。在这里，我们研究了影响英国谢菲尔德市绿地访问频率的因素。我们证明，最不常访问网站的人自我报告的心理健康状况较低。我们假设参与者的社会人口特征以及他们所访问的绿地的生物物理属性的组合对于影响访问频率非常重要。然而，社会人口特征（收入、年龄、性别）并未被发现是预测因素。相反，绿地的一些生物物理属性与使用频率显着相关。当到达绿地所需的时间较短且绿地忽视指数较高的地点时，频繁使用的可能性更大，但与树木覆盖或鸟类物种丰富度无关。我们将这些结果与人们访问的动机联系起来。不频繁的用户更有可能陈述与空间质量相关的动机，而频繁的用户则给出与身体、重复活动相关的动机。这表明可能没有简单的方法来管理绿地，以最大限度地利用不同用户群的绿地，因为访问的动机非常不同。
For many people, urban greenspaces are the only places where they encounter the natural world. This is concerning as there is growing evidence demonstrating that human well-being is enhanced by exposure to nature. There is, therefore, a compelling argument to increase how frequently people use urban greenspaces. This may be achieved in two complementary ways by encouraging: (I) non-users to start visiting urban greenspaces; (II) existing users to visit more often. Here we examine the factors that influence frequency of greenspace visitation in the city of Sheffield, England. We demonstrate that people who visit a site least frequently state lower self-reported psychological well-being. We hypothesised that a combination of socio-demographic characteristics of the participants, and the biophysical attributes of the greenspaces that they were visiting, would be important in influencing visit frequency. However, socio-demographic characteristics (income, age, gender) were not found to be predictors. In contrast, some biophysical attributes of greenspaces were significantly related to use frequency. Frequent use was more likely when the time taken to reach a greenspace was shorter and for sites with a higher index of greenspace neglect, but were unrelated to tree cover or bird species richness. We related these results to the motivations that people provide for their visits. Infrequent users were more likely to state motivations associated with the quality of the space, while frequent users gave motivations pertaining to physical, repeated activities. This suggests that there may be no simple way to manage greenspaces to maximise their use across user cohorts as the motivations for visits are very different.
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DOI：
10.1111/cobi.12215
发表时间：
2014-04
期刊：
Conservation biology : the journal of the Society for Conservation Biology
影响因子：
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作者：
Dallimer M;Tinch D;Hanley N;Irvine KN;Rouquette JR;Warren PH;Maltby L;Gaston KJ;Armsworth PR
通讯作者：
Armsworth PR
影响因子：
4.7
作者：
BURGESS, J;HARRISON, CM;LIMB, M
通讯作者：
LIMB, M
影响因子：
3.3
作者：
Fuller, Richard A.;Irvine, Katherine N.;Gaston, Kevin J.
通讯作者：
Gaston, Kevin J.
影响因子：
3.8
作者：
Elo, Satu;Kyngaes, Helvi
通讯作者：
Kyngaes, Helvi
影响因子：
1.3
作者：
Greenwood, Jeremy J. D.
通讯作者：
Greenwood, Jeremy J. D.