Perceived personal safety in relation to urban woodland vegetation – A review

Jansson, Märit; Fors, Hanna; Lindgren, Therése; Wiström, Björn

doi:10.1016/j.ufug.2013.01.005

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“…An important precondition for the use of natural environments for physical activity is individuals' (perceived) safety (62). Although there are possible negative effects associated with physical activity (e.g., sports injuries) as well as with being in a natural environment (e.g., Lyme disease from tick bites), most of these effects are not specific to physical activity in a natural environment.…”

Section: Physical Activitymentioning

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Nature and Health

Hartig

Mitchell

Vries

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Annu. Rev. Public Health

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Urbanization, resource exploitation, and lifestyle changes have diminished possibilities for human contact with nature in many societies. Concern about the loss has helped motivate research on the health benefits of contact with nature. Reviewing that research here, we focus on nature as represented by aspects of the physical environment relevant to planning, design, and policy measures that serve broad segments of urbanized societies. We discuss difficulties in defining "nature" and reasons for the current expansion of the research field, and we assess available reviews. We then consider research on pathways between nature and health involving air quality, physical activity, social cohesion, and stress reduction. Finally, we discuss methodological issues and priorities for future research. The extant research does describe an array of benefits of contact with nature, and evidence regarding some benefits is strong; however, some findings indicate caution is needed in applying beliefs about those benefits, and substantial gaps in knowledge remain.

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Section: Physical Activitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Nature and Health

Hartig

Mitchell

Vries

et al. 2014

Annu. Rev. Public Health

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“…This issue needs to be clarified, focusing on the situations where vegetation is not a causal factor to the fear of crime in the urban green spaces. There is a need to study how the vegetation appears in a spatial context, in terms of landscape design, vegetation density and vegetation character, and how maintenance might influence the fear level (Jansson et al, 2013).…”

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Fear of crime in urban parks – What the residents of Kuala Lumpur have to say?

Maruthaveeran

Bosh

2015

Urban Forestry & Urban Greening

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“…Urban green spaces provide many benefits for the human wellbeing and health. There is increasing interest in studying the relationship between the amount of green space and perceived safety in urban areas in the literature [4,5]. Different from actual safety, perceived safety is an experienced feeling that is often connected to the fear of crime and other unsafe perception factors [5].…”

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“…There is increasing interest in studying the relationship between the amount of green space and perceived safety in urban areas in the literature [4,5]. Different from actual safety, perceived safety is an experienced feeling that is often connected to the fear of crime and other unsafe perception factors [5]. The perceived safety has no direct connection to the incidence of crimes, but it could actually affect a human's walkability and preference for a specific site, which could have some other sorts of influences.…”

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“…Perceived safety should be considered as a complex phenomenon, which is not only affected by environmental characteristics [11][12][13], but also by culture, individual characteristics and many other social factors [4,5,[14][15][16]. People with different cultures, genders, ages and experiences may have different perceived safety for the same place.…”

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Does the Visibility of Greenery Increase Perceived Safety in Urban Areas? Evidence from the Place Pulse 1.0 Dataset

Zhang

2015

IJGI

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Abstract:Urban green space provides a series of esthetic, environmental and psychological benefits to urban residents. However, the relationship between the visibility of green vegetation and perceived safety is still in debate. This research investigated whether green vegetation could help to increase the perceived safety based on a crowdsourced dataset: the Place Pulse 1.0 dataset. Place Pulse 1.0 dataset, which was generated from a large number of votes by online participants, includes geo-tagged Google Street View images and the corresponding perceived safety score for each image. In this study, we conducted statistical analyses to analyze the relationship between perceived safety and green vegetation characteristics, which were extracted from Google Street View images. Results show that the visibility of green vegetation plays an important role in increasing perceived safety in urban areas. For different land use types, the relationship between vegetation structures and perceived safety varies. In residential, urban public/institutional, commercial and open land areas, the visibility of vegetation higher than 2.5 m has significant positive correlations with perceived safety, but there exists no significant correlation between perceived safety and the percentage of green vegetation in transportation and industrial areas. The visibility of vegetation below 2.5 m has no significant relationship with the perceived safety in almost all land use types, except for multifamily residential land and urban public/institutional land. In general, this study provided insight for the relationship between green vegetation characteristics and the perception of environment, as well as valuable reference data for developing urban greening programs.

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Perceived personal safety in relation to urban woodland vegetation – A review

Cited by 186 publications

References 52 publications

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