A natural experiment of the effects of "greening" the environment on physical activity and wellbeing

健康的行为指标，如身体活动、注意自己的环境和与他人联系，已使用循证方法确定。改变户外物理环境有很大的潜力，大规模地改变这些行为，因为这种干预措施可以接触到大量的人。一个很有希望的方法是在公共所有和公共可进入的地点，如运河边和小型公园，增加绿色基础设施的数量和质量。有很多证据表明，接触绿色或其他自然环境与主观幸福感和客观行为指标有关，但实验证据是有限的。目标发展一个更好的理论理解的情况下，“绿化”干预措施，导致增加福祉了解如何改变绿色基础设施影响福祉使用多-基于经验证据，为英国未来关于这一主题的研究制定正式的指导方针

Behavioural indicators of wellbeing, such as being physically active, taking notice of one's environment and connecting with other people, have been identified using evidence-based methods. Changing the outdoor physical environment has much potential to bring about changes in these behaviours on a large scale as such interventions reach a large number of people. One promising means of doing this is to increase the quantity and quality of green infrastructure in publicly owned and publicly accessible sites such as canalsides, and mini-parks. There is much evidence that exposure to green or other natural environments is associated with subjective measures of wellbeing as well as objective behavioural indicators, but experimental evidence is limited.AimDevelop a greater theoretical understanding of the circumstances under which "greening" interventions result in increases in wellbeingUnderstand how changes in green infrastructure affect wellbeing using multi-perspective qualitative methodsDevelop formal guidance for future research on this topic in the UK, based on empirical evidence