| Description |
1 online resource (310 pages) |
| Series |
Open Space: People Space 2 |
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Open Space: People Space 2
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| Contents |
Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of contributors; List of figures; List of tables; Foreword; Preface; Introduction; Part I: Affordances in the landscape: a theoretical approach; Chapter 1 Affordances and the perception of landscape: an inquiry into environmental perception and aesthetics; Chapter 2 Using behaviour mapping to investigate healthy outdoor environments for children and families: conceptual framework, procedures and applications; Part II: Evidence on the relationship between landscape and health |
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Chapter 3 Nearby nature and human health: looking at mechanisms and their implicationsChapter 4 Active landscapes: the methodological challenges in developing the evidence on urban environments and physical activity; Chapter 5 Using affordances as a health-promoting tool in a therapeutic garden; Part III: Different perspectives on methodology; Chapter 6 Opening space for project pursuit: affordance, restoration and chills; Chapter 7 On environmental preference: applyin |
| Summary |
Addressing the ways in which our modern, sedentary lifestyles affect our health, this book looks at both innovative new methods for measuring the relationships between health and environment and proposes future research directions |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Bell, Simon
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Aspinall, Peter
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| ISBN |
9780203853252 |
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0203853253 |
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1282586742 |
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9781282586741 |
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