Does urban green space justly improve public health and well-being? A case study of Tianjin, a megacity in China

Yang, He; Chen, Tianyu; Zhang, Zhi; Feng, Ming

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2022.134920

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“…Among all needs that the public may wish GSs to provide, those used for health benefits were taken to be the most important [72]. To ensure that the most intended meanings can be retained, we designed questionnaires based on three secondary indicators, namely the mental, physical, and social states of health.…”

Section: Assessment Of Health Service Functionsmentioning

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A Comprehensive Evaluation of Supply and Demand in Urban Parks along “Luck Greenway” in Fuzhou

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A sustainable urban park should have balanced green space (GS) supply and demand (SAD). A knowledge gap exists to reveal parameters that can indicate the relationship between the supply of GS services and the demand of public health needs. In this study, three primary indicators and 12 secondary indicators were selected to build a comprehensive evaluation system on SAD in the GSs of 14 parks along the “Luck Greenway” in Fuzhou. Parks were categorized and assessed for their ecological service functions, public health demands, and current public health needs. Remote evaluation and field survey were both used to collect data for quantifying functional supply and needs, respectively. It was found that factors, such as the fitness of sports service facilities, vegetation coverage, natural confluence, and mental health, impacted the comprehensive quality of supply services in urban parks. The unbalanced “multi-center” distribution of the coupled evaluation values revealed the mismatch in SAD. This study aimed to provide guidance on planning the health-promoting GS landscape by balancing SAD and maintaining ecological environment protection.

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Section: Assessment Of Health Service Functionsmentioning

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A Comprehensive Evaluation of Supply and Demand in Urban Parks along “Luck Greenway” in Fuzhou

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“…According to a summary analysis of current studies, urban green spaces, including urban forests, could affect the mental health of residents by affecting people's emotions, stress, social interactions, and neighborhood satisfaction [40]. In addition, urban green spaces can also improve residents' happiness in living and working [41,42]. On the other hand, urban forest environments can also produce cognitive benefits.…”

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How Does the Urban Forest Environment Affect the Psychological Restoration of Residents? A Natural Experiment in Environmental Perception from Beijing

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Chen

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The urban forest is not only an essential part of maintaining the security of the urban ecosystem but also an important restorative environmental site that benefits the physical and mental health of residents. In this research, a natural experiment was designed in Beijing in order to evaluate the urban forest environment in terms of visual, auditory, and olfactory senses, and the effects of psychosocial restoration in urban forest environments were tested. On this basis, a Partial Least Squares-Structural Equation Model was structured to verify the “environment-perception-restoration mechanism”. The findings showed that the urban forest environment was the main cause of the differences in residents’ psychological restoration and the natural environment perception, while the natural environment perception directly impacted residents’ psychological restoration and mediated the relationship between the urban forest environment and psychological restoration. Therefore, Beijing needs to further optimize the landscape, sound, smell, and other environmental elements of urban forests and create a peaceful and spacious urban forest open space, considering the environmental perception preferences of urban residents, to improve the psychological restoration effect of urban forests.

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“…The processed data were put into AMOS 24.0 for modeling. According to the criteria for judging each goodness-of-fit indicator [51][52][53], the final results after model correction are X 2 /d f = 2.563, which is between 1 and 3; TLI = 0.889, which is greater than the critical value of 0.8; CFI = 0.968, IFI = 0.970, which are both greater than 0.9; and RMSEA = 0.057, which is less than 0.08. This indicates that the model constructed in this study is well-adapted for path analysis.…”

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Mechanisms and Empirical Analysis of the Impact of Soil and Water Conservation on the Livelihood and Well-Being of Farmer Households: A Case Study in Desert–Loess Transition Zone of China

2023

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Climate change brings great uncertainty to the sustainable livelihood of farmers. Soil and water conservation measures are the key measures to adapt to climate change, and studying their effects is of great significance to formulating and adjusting future work. Based on the analysis framework of sustainable livelihood, this study constructed a path model to analyze the influence path among soil and water conservation, farmers’ livelihood and well-being from the perspective of model integration and discussed the mechanism of the effect of soil and water conservation well-being. The results show that (1) soil and water conservation has a significant effect on both the livelihood and well-being of farmer households. Soil and water conservation has a positive effect on farmer households’ livelihood capital, and farmers who participated in soil and water conservation prefer to engage in agricultural activities, with a cumulative effect of livelihood capital and livelihood strategies dependence. However, the direct effect of soil and water well-being is not significant, but only in terms of farmers’ security and health. (2) Through the “livelihood capital accumulation mechanism”, “livelihood strategies dependence mechanism” and “livelihood chain mechanism”, soil and water conservation affects the basic material needs, safety and health, freedom of choice and movement of farmers’ well-being. (3) In order to further promote soil and water conservation measures, relevant policy makers can indirectly enhance the soil and water conservation well-being effect by optimizing the livelihood portfolio of farmers, thus attracting the extensive participation of farmers. This study provides analytical ideas for exploring the role of the relationship between soil and water conservation, livelihood and well-being, and offers suggestions for increasing the participation of farmers in soil and water conservation.

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Does urban green space justly improve public health and well-being? A case study of Tianjin, a megacity in China

Cited by 24 publications

References 76 publications

A Comprehensive Evaluation of Supply and Demand in Urban Parks along “Luck Greenway” in Fuzhou

A Comprehensive Evaluation of Supply and Demand in Urban Parks along “Luck Greenway” in Fuzhou

How Does the Urban Forest Environment Affect the Psychological Restoration of Residents? A Natural Experiment in Environmental Perception from Beijing

Mechanisms and Empirical Analysis of the Impact of Soil and Water Conservation on the Livelihood and Well-Being of Farmer Households: A Case Study in Desert–Loess Transition Zone of China

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