Greenways to Health: The Links Between Access to Green Space and Healthy Communities
- Catharine Ward Thompson (University of Edinburgh, OPENspace Research Centre, Edinburgh College of Art)
Abstract
The European Landscape Convention stresses the significance of “everyday” landscapes in which people live and go about their daily activities; it identifies such landscapes as important for people’s quality of life, their wellbeing and their individual and cultural identity (Council of Europe, 2000, pp 8-11, 23). As we reach the point, globally, where more people live in towns and cities than in rural locations, new questions are being raised about how well such environments serve as human habitat. There is a new impetus to interest in links between environment, health and quality of life, and greenways and green spaces have an important role within this.
Keywords: greenways, health, communities, europe
How to Cite:
Thompson, C. W., (2016) “Greenways to Health: The Links Between Access to Green Space and Healthy Communities”, Fábos Conference on Landscape and Greenway Planning 5(2). doi: https://doi.org/10.7275/fabos.675
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