Use of the Natural Outdoor Environment in Different Populations in Europe in Relation to Access: Implications for PolicyShow others and affiliations
2022 (English)In: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, ISSN 1661-7827, E-ISSN 1660-4601, Vol. 19, no 4, article id 2226Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Sustainable development
Sustainable Development
Abstract [en]
This cross-cultural study explores the relationship of natural outdoor environment (NOE) use with NOE access. Most urban planning recommendations suggest optimal accessibility to be 300 m–500 m straight distance to spaces with vegetation of at least 1 hectare. Exploring this recommendation, we used data (n = 3947) from four European cities collected in the framework of the PHENOTYPE study: Barcelona (Spain), Doetinchem (The Netherlands), Kaunas (Lithuania) and Stoke-on-Trent (United Kingdom) to obtain residential access to NOE (straight or network distances, using 300 m and 150 m buffers, to NOE larger than 1 hectare or 0.5 hectare) and use of NOE (i.e., self-reported time spent in NOE). Poisson regression models were used to examine the associations between residential access and use of NOE. The models with the strongest association with time spent in NOE in the combined sample were for those living within 300 m straight line distance to either 0.5 ha or 1 ha NOE. Noting that the only indicator that was consistent across all individual cities was living with 150 m network buffer of NOE (of at least 1 ha), this warrants further exploration in reducing recommendations of 300 m straight-line distance to 150 m network distance to 1 ha of NOE for a general indicator for cities within Europe.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
MDPI, 2022. Vol. 19, no 4, article id 2226
Keywords [en]
Access, Distance, Green space, Natural outdoor environments, Time spent, Use
National Category
Public Health, Global Health, Social Medicine and Epidemiology
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-55945DOI: 10.3390/ijerph19042226ISI: 000775637200001PubMedID: 35206413Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85124582982Local ID: GOA;intsam;797536OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hj-55945DiVA, id: diva2:1640635
Funder
EU, FP7, Seventh Framework Programme, 2829962022-02-252022-02-252022-04-14Bibliographically approved