Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Urban Green Parks And
Academic Achievement
- Sustainabilty
- Eco-Cities
- Green Revolution
- Climate Change Adaptation
- Low cost, multiple benefits
- Key Themes
- Urbanisation
- Improves
quality of life
of people.
One of the
most
important
factors of
sustainaibility
- Green Space
- Social
- Cohesion
- Well-Being
- Interaction
- Economic
- Land Use Prices
- Housing
- Visual Amenity
- Students (economic pool)
- Policy
Making
- Green Space Under Threat
- (BBC 2015) 'Cuts to 27,00 parks in
Britain)
- (Manchester GI strategy 2016) Policy context:
National ecosystem assesment, Healthy lives
health people white paper, The Greater
Manchester Climate Change Strategy 2011-2020,
GI Framework
- Accessibility
- Trend of staying
indoors (Carringotn
2016)
- Key Literature
- Maas et al. 2010
- Respondents with a high
amount of green space in a
three kilometre radius were
lless affected by
experienceing a stressful life
event than those exposed to
a low amount of green space
- Saraev, V 2015
- Economic: Aesthetically pleasing
greenspace increases land and
property values
- Herbert, S. 2000
- Ethnographic observations
provide insights into
everyday life to unmask
feelings which undergrid
social action
- Gap In Knowledge: vast array of literature
analysing the link between green space
and well-being and well-being and
achievement but nothing on direct link of
green space and actual achievement. This
research hopes to bridge the gap
- Methods
- Ethnography
- insight into everyday life (Herbert, S. 2000)
- Undergrid Social Meaning
- Visual engagement with Actors
- Qualitative
- Questionnaires
- Primary
- Open ended Questions
- opinionated
- Capture emotion
- Fixed questions
- Responses are
easier to analyse as
they fall into a
limited set of
categories (Fink
and Kosecoff 1998)
- Secondary statistical data and Literature
- Trial and error
- Actual evidence of past findings
- Perspective
- Practical statistical data of grades received off UNI
- Limitations
- Avoid sensitive questions
- Risk and ethics
- Academic Achievement
- Practial
- Range of factors associated with green space
- Escapism
- Urban Parks Associated with
escapism from the stressful
rhythm of the city (Chiesura, A
2004)
- All Round Mental
Health and
Happiness
- more confidence
- feel better about yourself
- motivation
- Scientists conducted research on
the link betwen green space and
happiness. The actors well-being
was ranked using General health
questionnaire. The findings
declared that people moving to
areas with more green space
were happier for three years after
there move and this only grew
over time (Gilbert 2016)
- Location: Whitworth
park close to
University, easy to
access
- Research Aims
- Why and how do students interact with Whitworth Park
- Other factors that may influence outcomes
- Gender
- Different ideologies of perception and use
of green space (Richardson and Mitchell
2010)
- How much time a week do students
spend in Whitworth Park
- To consider the relationship between predicted
grades and amount of time spent in Greenspace
using university data