Perception about urban forest and its influence on well-being in workplaces

Abstract

Urban forests play an essential role in mitigating negative human actions over people’s quality of life. Trees provide well-being to populations since they enable the provision of several environmental services. Human perception about nature is essential to keep balance in cities’ development processes, according to which, natural environments are part of them. Thus, the aim of the current study is to analyze Technological Research Institute workers’ perception about its urban forest to support its management process. Results have evidenced the positive and negative influence of urban forests on the daily activities of local community in its work environment, based on the application of an online questionnaire. Participants have contributed to help improving environmental management at the Institute Campus, by proposing actions.