Associations of green space metrics with health and behavior outcomes at different buffer sizes and remote sensing sensor resolutions

Su, Jason; Dadvand, Payam; Nieuwenhuijsen, Mark; Bartoll, Xavier; Jerrett, Michael

doi:10.1016/j.envint.2019.02.008

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“…However, this is challenging. The most widespread approaches to assessing green space use available land cover datasets, satellite images, or aerial photographs [ 74 , 75 , 76 ] are susceptible to the modifiable areal unit problem (MAUP) [ 77 ]. Varying scales or shapes are employed to represent and measure spatial zones leads to the statistical bias.…”

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The Association between Green Space and Adolescents’ Mental Well-Being: A Systematic Review

Zhang

Mavoa

Zhao

et al. 2020

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This systematic review summarised and evaluated the evidence for associations between green space and adolescents’ mental well-being. The PRISMA statement guidelines were followed for reporting systematic reviews. Fourteen articles met the inclusion criteria for this review. Synthesis suggests beneficial associations between green space exposure and reduced stress, positive mood, less depressive symptoms, better emotional well-being, improved mental health and behaviour, and decreased psychological distress in adolescents. Several studies found the relationship varied by demographic and socio-economic factors. The limited number of studies and the risk of bias were the main limitations, together with heterogeneity regarding green space and mental well-being assessments. Overall, this review highlights the potential contribution of green space in schoolyards. Improving the availability, accessibility and quality of green space is likely to generate positive impacts on adolescents’ mental well-being. More consistent evidence on the use of different types of green space and perceptions of features are needed in the future.

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The Association between Green Space and Adolescents’ Mental Well-Being: A Systematic Review

Zhang

Mavoa

Zhao

et al. 2020

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113

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“…The findings of our study revealed that the residents of Kaunas highly scored the quality of their residential neighborhood, specifically noting that public transport met their needs in the district, and that they had good opportunities for walking to reach the city’s green spaces or parks. Data from the PHENOTYPE project showed that the association between different health indices and the NDVI depends on buffer size, possibly due to the visual impact of the green space seen from home [ 38 ]. In Kaunas, about 95% of the citizens see green spaces from home and have convenient access to a city park by walking from homes for 10 min or less.…”

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“…To ensure a better characterization of green space quality and accessibility, it is suggested to use satellite data combined with data of other analytical tools used for the estimation of indicators of surface greenness. Time-activity based exposure to green space might reduce exposure misclassification [ 38 ].…”

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Neighborhood Social and Built Environment and Disparities in the Risk of Hypertension: A Cross-Sectional Study

Gražulevičienė

Gražulevičius

Dėdelė

2020

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Citizens’ participation in urban environmental quality assessment is important when identifying local problems in the sustainable development and environmental planning policy. The principal aim of this study was to analyze whether any social differences exist between the joint effect of built neighborhood quality and exposure to urban green spaces and the risk of hypertension. The study sample consisted of 580 participants residing in 11 districts in Kaunas city, Lithuania. Using geographic information systems (GIS), individual data on the socioeconomic status (SES) and health were linked to the participants’ perceptions of the environmental quality and exposure to green spaces (NDVI). We used multivariate logistic regression to estimate associations as odds ratios (OR). Those study participants with lower education and those study participants with higher education on low incomes rated their health significantly worse. Low SES persons residing in areas with low exposure to green spaces had a significantly higher risk of hypertension when sex, age, family status, smoking, and income were accounted for (OR 1.83, 95% CI 1.01–3.36). This citizen science study provided evidence that the social environment and the quality of the built environment had a complex effect on disparities in the risk of hypertension.

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“…locations [20,21]. While circumventing many limitations of administrative areas, there is a lack of consensus on the appropriate buffer size.…”

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“…Other studies used remote sensing data to capture environmental characteristics (e.g., green space). Although this type of data varies in spatial resolution (ranging from 2 m to 30 m), there seems to be no significant impact of the sensor spatial resolution on identifying the associations with environments [21].…”

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Objective environmental exposures correlate differently with recreational and transportation walking: A cross-sectional national study in the Netherlands

Wang

Ettema

Helbich

2020

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Background Walking is a good and simple way to increase people’s energy expenditure, but there is limited evidence whether the neighborhood environment correlates differently with recreational and transportation walking. Aim To investigate how recreational walking and transportation walking are associated with the natural and built environmental characteristics of the living environment in the Netherlands, and examine the differences in their associations between weekdays and weekends. Method and data We extracted the total duration of daily walking (in minutes per person) for recreation and transport from the Dutch National Travel Survey 2015-2017 (N=66,880) and analyzed it as an outcome variable. Objective measures of the natural (i.e., Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) and meteorological conditions) and built environment (i.e., crossing density, land-use mix, and residential building density) around respondents’ home addresses were determined for buffers with 300, 600, and 1,000 m radii using a geographic information system. To assess associations between recreational and transport walking and the environmental exposures separately, we fitted Tobit regression models to the walking data, adjusted for multiple confounders. Results On weekdays, people living in areas with less NDVI, higher land-use mix, higher residential building density, and higher crossing density were more likely to engage in transportation walking. While recreational walking was negatively associated with NDVI, crossing density, precipitation, and daily average temperature, it was positively associated with residential building density. At weekends, land-use mix supports both recreational and transportation walking. A negative association appeared for NDVI and transportation walking. Daily average rainfall and temperature were inversely correlated with recreational walking. Sensitivity tests indicated that some associations depend on the buffer size. Conclusions Our findings suggest that the built and natural environments have different impacts on people’s recreational and transportation walking. We also found differences in the walking–environment associations between weekdays and weekends. Place-based policies to design walking-friendly neighborhoods may have different implications for different types of walking.

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Associations of green space metrics with health and behavior outcomes at different buffer sizes and remote sensing sensor resolutions

Cited by 110 publications

References 39 publications

The Association between Green Space and Adolescents’ Mental Well-Being: A Systematic Review

The Association between Green Space and Adolescents’ Mental Well-Being: A Systematic Review

Neighborhood Social and Built Environment and Disparities in the Risk of Hypertension: A Cross-Sectional Study

Objective environmental exposures correlate differently with recreational and transportation walking: A cross-sectional national study in the Netherlands

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