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Rachel R.Y. Oh;Yuchen Zhang;Le T.P. Nghiem;Chia-chen Chang;Claudia L.Y. Tan;Shimona A. Quazi;Danielle F. Shanahan;Brenda B. Lin;Kevin J. Gaston;Richard A. Fuller;Roman L. Carrasco

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URBAN FORESTRY & URBAN GREENING,Vol.74,Issue1,Article 127655

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英文

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School of Biological Sciences, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia;Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, Singapore;Zealandia Centre for People and Nature and Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand;CSIRO Land & Water Flagship, Brisbane, Australia;Environment & Sustainability Institute, University of Exeter, Penryn, Cornwall TR10 9EZ, UK;Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), Leipzig, Germany;German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany;National Parks Board of Singapore, Singapore;School of Biological Sciences, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia;Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, Singapore;Zealandia Centre for People and Nature and Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand;CSIRO Land & Water Flagship, Brisbane, Australia;Environment & Sustainability Institute, University of Exeter, Penryn, Cornwall TR10 9EZ, UK;Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), Leipzig, Germany;German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany;National Parks Board of Singapore, Singapore;University of Minnesota, College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences, 1420 Eckles Ave #190, St. Paul 55108, MN, United States;Ironwood Urban Forestry Consulting Inc., 570 Wardlaw Ave., Winnipeg R3L 0M2, Manitoba, Canada;School for Resource and Environmental Studies, 6100 University Ave, Halifax B3H 4R2, Nova Scotia, Canada;School of Biological Sciences (M090), The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia;Department of Geomatics, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan 70101, Taiwan;Department of Leisure Industry and Health Promotion, National Taipei University of Nursing and Health Sciences, Taipei 112, Taiwan;National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Health Research Institutes, Miaoli 35053, Taiwan;Department of Environmental Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, United States;Politecnico di Torino, Interuniversity Department of Regional and Urban Studies and Planning (DIST), Viale Mattioli 39, 10125 Torino, Italy;Queensland University of Technology (QUT), QUT Design Lab, Brisbane, Australia;Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Digital Media Research Centre, Brisbane, Australia;Institute for Physical Activity and Nutrition (IPAN), School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences, Deakin University, Geelong, Australia;Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Ghent University, C. Heymanslaan 10, 9000 Ghent, Belgium;Movement and Nutrition for Health and Performance Research Group, Department of Movement and Sport Sciences, Faculty of Physical Education and Physical Therapy, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Pleinlaan 2, 1050 Brussels, Belgium;Short communication"}]},{"#name":"title","$":{"id":"tit0005"},"_":"Adolescents’ perceptions of park characteristics that discourage park visitation"}],"floats":[],"footnotes":[],"attachments":[]},"openArchive":false,"openAccess":false,"document-subtype":"sco","content-family":"serial","contentType":"JL","abstract":{"$$":[{"$$":[{"$":{"id":"sect0005"},"#name":"section-title","_":"Abstract"},{"$$":[{"$":{"view":"all","id":"sp0040"},"#name":"simple-para","_":"Parks are key amenities of liveable cities that support physical activity and social interaction. However, parks are often not well attended by adolescents, and little is known about what park characteristics may discourage adolescents from visiting parks. The aim of this study was to explore what park characteristics adolescents perceive as most likely to discourage park visitation. Adolescents (n = 444, 13–18 years, 53% female) from seven schools in diverse areas of Melbourne, Australia completed an online survey at school. In response to an open-ended question, participants listed three park characteristics that would most likely discourage their park visitation. Content analysis was performed to determine categories of park characteristics from the coded responses. The six most frequently stated park characteristics that would discourage park visitation related to: play equipment (e.g., small/children’s playgrounds, no play equipment, no swings; 44% of participants mentioned the category at least once); social factors (e.g., crowded parks, presence of undesirable people; 32%); natural environment (e.g., small/no grassy space, large grassy open space; 28%); maintenance (e.g., dirty facilities, rubbish; 23%); sport/recreation features (e.g., skate park; 20%); and amenities (e.g., no shade, toilets, drink taps; 19%). 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摘要

A person’s health and wellbeing are contingent on the amount of social support that they receive. Similarly, experiencing nature has been shown to improve people’s health and wellbeing. However, we do not know how relationships between social cohesion, nature experiences and nature connection could interrelate and vary across different types of urban green spaces, and in non-Westernised cultures. We conducted a study on 1249 residents in Singapore, a tropical city-state, and measured three dimensions of social cohesion (i.e. general social cohesion; trust and sense of community; and social interactions), various types of nature experiences (i.e. amount of green space around one’s residence; frequency and duration of urban green space visits; frequency and duration of visits to gardens), and three dimensions of one’s connection to nature: self-identity with nature, desire to experience nature, and environmental concern (using the nature relatedness scale). We found that people who strongly identify with nature, who enjoy being in nature, and who had more frequent gardens visits were more likely to have a stronger sense of social cohesion across two dimensions. However, those with stronger environmental concern reported an overall weaker sense of social cohesion, possibly due to the perception that society’s contributions to conserve environmental problems was insufficient. Further, people who gardened more frequently were also more likely to visit green spaces, self-identify with nature and exhibit a stronger desire to experience nature. We propose that strategies targeted at encouraging people to engage in nature-related, collaborative activities at the local community level, such as spending time in local gardens, will increase urban residents’ daily nature experiences and its associated benefits such as improving social cohesion.