GREEN SPACE AUDITS ON ITS ACCESSIBILITY IN PASIR GUDANG

PLANNING MALAYSIA JOURNAL ◽

10.21837/pmjournal.v11.i2.115 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 11 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Wan Yusryzal Wan Ibrahim ◽

Ahmad Long ◽

Ariva Sugandi Permana

Keyword(s):

Quality Of Life ◽

Green Space ◽

Local Community ◽

Social Values ◽

Healthy Lifestyle ◽

Essential Element ◽

Green Spaces ◽

Key Points ◽

Basic Reference

Green space is an essential element in a city that serves outdoor recreational place for the community. It helps generating the economic and social values and promoting a healthy lifestyle for local community. The aim of the study is to audit the green spaces in Pasir Gudang Municipality and promote the strategies to improve the use of green space in the study area towards better quality of life of the citizens. The study classifies the existing green spaces in Pasir Gudang in terms of size, function, use, quality, area, accessibility and facilities provided in the green space areas. Two key points have been identified as a basic reference before any development of green spaces take place in Pasir Gudang. The study reveals that present green space areas in Pasir Gudang Municipality are able to serve most communities in the municipality. However, still about 35% of the municipality area is not presently served by the existing green spaces. Thus quantity, quality and accessibility of the green space areas need improvement. This study also shows the potential network of the access that will be able to improve the approachability of all existing green space areas by the citizens to contribute to their quality of life.

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ASSESSING THE ASSOCIATIONS BETWEEN TYPES OF GREEN SPACE, PHYSICAL ACTIVITY, AND HEALTH INDICATORS USING GIS AND PARTICIPATORY SURVEY

ISPRS Annals of Photogrammetry Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences ◽

10.5194/isprs-annals-iv-4-w4-47-2017 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol IV-4/W4 ◽

pp. 47-54

Author(s):

A. Akpinar

Keyword(s):

Quality Of Life ◽

Physical Activity ◽

Cardiovascular Disease ◽

General Health ◽

Green Space ◽

Disease Prevalence ◽

Green Spaces ◽

Health Quality ◽

Health Quality Of Life

This study explores whether specific types of green spaces (i.e. urban green spaces, forests, agricultural lands, rangelands, and wetlands) are associated with physical activity, quality of life, and cardiovascular disease prevalence. A sample of 8,976 respondents from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, conducted in 2006 in Washington State across 291 zip-codes, was analyzed. Measures included physical activity status, quality of life, and cardiovascular disease prevalence (i.e. heart attack, angina, and stroke). Percentage of green spaces was derived from the National Land Cover Dataset and measured with Geographical Information System. Multilevel regression analyses were conducted to analyze the data while controlling for age, sex, race, weight, marital status, occupation, income, education level, and zip-code population and socio-economic situation. Regression results reveal that no green space types were associated with physical activity, quality of life, and cardiovascular disease prevalence. On the other hand, the analysis shows that physical activity was associated with general health, quality of life, and cardiovascular disease prevalence. The findings suggest that other factors such as size, structure and distribution (sprawled or concentrated, large or small), quality, and characteristics of green space might be important in general health, quality of life, and cardiovascular disease prevalence rather than green space types. Therefore, further investigations are needed.

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Role of Green Spaces for Maintaining Well-Being in Residential Community Development

10.5772/intechopen.97681 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Prashanti Rao

Keyword(s):

Quality Of Life ◽

Green Space ◽

Well Being ◽

Daily Basis ◽

Housing Demand ◽

Green Spaces ◽

Healthy Environment ◽

Residential Communities ◽

Positive Experiences

The planned green spaces are the most significant social spaces for people to interact on a daily basis and also considered as one of the sustainability indicators for maintaining the well-being in residential Communities. The benefits of green space for wellbeing are extensively recognized and progressively more documented. Due to increasing urbanization and housing demand, Residential communities are growing in suburbs and few in the urban core. Due to which depletion in per capita green space is recorded. This book chapter intends to look into the challenges of the residential communities and how Green Spaces (Passive and Active) within the communities helping in bringing back the quality of life and well-being. Further, it discusses the benefits of green spaces at the community level, through case studies. Conceptually this entire study propels the belief that the residential communities usually comprise of the varied age user group and all of them have the right to led a better quality of life. It can be possible only when they are accessible to green space and avail maximum perceived benefits like safety and security concerns, healthy environment, and social cohesion. Housing environments should enable residents to have positive experiences through the allocation of diverse green environments, which lead to physically and mentally happy, healthy living. Such positive experiences affect their happiness level, thus leading to sustainable lives.

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Evidences of plant blindness in a Brazilian urban green space with plaqued trees

Paisagem e Ambiente ◽

10.11606/issn.2359-5361.paam.2019.151370 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 30 (43) ◽

pp. e151370

Author(s):

Matheus Colli-Silva ◽

Ana Clara Salama Corsi ◽

Jônatas De Jesus Florentino ◽

Lui Agostinho Teixeira ◽

Suzana Ursi

Keyword(s):

Quality Of Life ◽

Green Space ◽

Green Spaces ◽

Urban Green ◽

Urban Green Spaces ◽

Paulo State ◽

Green Area ◽

Urban Green Area ◽

Different Types

Plant blindness is a recurrent issue in many urban green spaces. As an element of biodiversity perception, it is socially and individually determined. This paper brings up evidences of plant blindness through a quali-quantitative analysis of 49 interviews on an urban green area of the São Paulo state whose several trees have been recently plaqued. Respondents were not able to correctly identify plant elements and undervalued richness of different types of plants. Despite pointing out the necessity of green spaces in improving quality of life, respondents underestimated the importance of maintaining not only a green space, but a biodiverse one. We discuss the perception of a “good” green space is less associated with species richness, and more with passers-by expectations on a green space and with an innate plant blindness. We suppose informative plaques may play a role in reduce plant blindness, since plaques individualize plants that were once seen as components of a monotonous green landscape.

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Acciones colectivas en la recuperación de espacios verdes públicos: Caso Quebrada Ortega, Quitumbe, Quito-Ecuador.

Hábitat y Sociedad ◽

10.12795/habitatysociedad.2021.i14.04 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 51-70

Author(s):

Maria Daniela Zumárraga Salgado ◽

Teresa Elena Pascual Wong ◽

Mauricio Javier Unda Padilla

Keyword(s):

Quality Of Life ◽

Public Space ◽

Essential Element ◽

Urban Life ◽

Green Spaces ◽

Semiotic Analysis ◽

Collective Actions ◽

Mixed Analysis ◽

Housing Cooperative

Green spaces are protagonists in the new way of conceiving public space, where the collective actions undertaken by social organizations use natural benefits as a source of unlimited resources that improve their quality of life. In this context, public green spaces are in a favorable setting for the development of local activities. However, in the South of Quito, the logic of the State is opposed to the recovery of green areas as triggers of urban life, prioritizing the construction of massive houses and facilities before the recovery of streams and forests that are characteristic elements of the topography from the city. Here the categories of collective actions undertaken by the Alianza Solidaria Housing Cooperative in the recovery of Quebrada Ortega were analyzed and determined. Interviews, photographic archives, semiotic analysis and surveys were the techniques used to feed a mixed analysis methodology. As a result, we find that community participation and self-management are decisive collective actions in the appropriation of public spaces. Finally, the role of women becomes an essential element for executing the processes to improve the quality of life of the community.

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Green spaces, quality of life, and citizen perception in European cities

Environmental Research ◽

10.1016/j.envres.2021.110922 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 196 ◽

pp. 110922 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Vincenzo Giannico ◽

Giuseppina Spano ◽

Mario Elia ◽

Marina D’Este ◽

Giovanni Sanesi ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Quality Of Life ◽

Green Spaces ◽

European Cities

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Food intake, physical activity and quality of life among children and youth

Work ◽

10.3233/wor-213492 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-10

Author(s):

Emília Martins ◽

Rosina Fernandes ◽

Francisco Mendes ◽

Cátia Magalhães ◽

Patrícia Araújo

Keyword(s):

Quality Of Life ◽

Physical Activity ◽

Healthy Lifestyle ◽

Eating Habits ◽

Age Groups ◽

Related Quality ◽

Health Related ◽

Life Habits ◽

Definition Of

BACKGROUND: The health-related quality of life construct (QoL) implies a relationship with eating habits (EA) and physical activity (PA). Sociodemographic and anthropometric variables (gender, age and Body Mass Index - BMI) are highlighted in the definition of healthy lifestyle habits promotion strategies. OBJECTIVE: We aim to characterize and relate PA, EA and QoL in children/youth and explore gender, age and BMI influences. METHODS: It is a non-experimental study, with 337 children/youth, ages between 8 and 17 years (12.61±2.96), mostly from the rural inland of Portugal. In data collection we used a sociodemographic and anthropometric questionnaire, a weekly register table of EA and Kid-Kindl (QoL). Statistical analysis (p < 0.05) were performed in SPSS-IBM 25. RESULTS: Lower BMI was associated with better EA (p < 0.001), PA (p < 0.05) and self-esteem (p < 0.01) and worse scores on family subscale of QoL. Female showed higher fruit intake (p < 0.05). The older has shown better results. PA is positively correlated with QoL (p < 0.01) and EA (p < 0.05). CONCLUSIONS: It is important to explore other relevant social and family dimensions, to promote intervention programs with parents, school and community, as well as healthy practices policies. The intervention in these age groups is critical for a longer-term impact in improving healthy life habits.

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Behandeling van spasticiteit met enkele overwegingen naar sport toe

Tijdschrift voor Geneeskunde ◽

10.47671/tvg.77.21.065 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

K. DECLERCK ◽

F. HEISTERCAMP ◽

K. SLABBYNCK ◽

A. BOSMANS

Keyword(s):

Quality Of Life ◽

Central Nervous System ◽

Nervous System ◽

Multidisciplinary Approach ◽

Healthy Lifestyle ◽

Crucial Aspect ◽

Limited Function ◽

Sporting Activities ◽

Interventional Therapies

Treatment of spasticity with some considerations regarding sport Spasticity is a possible side effect in patients with a central nervous system pathology and it affects more than 12 million people worldwide. Spasticity can have an important impact on the quality of life and sporting activities. Spasticity only needs to be treated if there is spasticity associated pain and/or (expected) limited function. Primarily triggering factors of spasticity must be treated. A multidisciplinary approach containing a combination of medication and physical therapy is recommended in the treatment of spasticity. If this approach remains insufficient, interventional therapies can be taken into consideration, although they should always be combined with rehabilitation to reduce (the) spastic tone/spasticity. Sports and exercising should not be merely seen in the context of therapy and/or rehabilitation but also as a crucial aspect of a healthy lifestyle, in particular for people ‘at risk’ for inactivity. Therefore, it is important to fill the gap between rehabilitation and sustainable sports practice for the rehabilitator.

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