EditorialIntroduction on urban environmental quality and human wellbeing
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Urban planning with respect to environmental quality and human well-being
2016, Environmental PollutionCitation Excerpt :Socio-spatial variations in urban environmental quality and human well-being are not new subjects; rather, they are an established characteristic of city life (Fig. 1). Cities have always represented a mixed bag of blessings and downfalls for their inhabitants (Pacione, 2003a,b). Other important factors may contribute to quality of life in urban areas, such as accessibility to green areas and whether such destinations can be reached in ways beyond the usual means of transport, namely by bicycle or on foot (Jankovska et al., 2013).
Ecosystem and urban services for landscape liveability: A model for quantification of stakeholders' perceived importance
2016, Land Use PolicyCitation Excerpt :However, many of them focus on the definition and characterization of liveability concepts (see e.g., Van Kamp et al., 2003; De Haan et al., 2014; Ruth and Franklin, 2014) as they still appear to be new and dynamic. More applied studies typically focus on assessing and understanding facets of liveability in certain places (see, e.g., Pacione, 2003a,b; Shamsuddin et al., 2012), but these studies usually refer to urban liveability without considering the whole landscape. In a very recent study (Norouzian-Maleki et al., 2015), an interesting approach was applied to identify which candidate criteria are most appropriate to describe liveability for two countries (Iran and Estonia) together with their priority weighting.
A conceptual framework for integrated analysis of environmental quality and quality of life
2014, Ecological IndicatorsThe use of amenities in high density neighbourhoods by older urban Australians residents
2012, Landscape and Urban PlanningCitation Excerpt :Rarely are objective and subjective indicators analysed in conjunction with one another (McCrea et al., 2006), thereby precluding simultaneous consideration of the subjective dimensions of life within neighbourhoods and the actual movement and participation of residents that occurs within them. The breadth of information gathered from the objective and subjective measures used in this study strengthens the case for using both and thus acknowledging the importance of the subjective when investigating the objective environment (Pacione, 2003). The majority of participants, with the exception of CS5, spent most of their time at home (see Fig. 2 above).
Evaluation of performance of European cities with the aim to promote quality of life improvements
2011, OmegaCitation Excerpt :The first step to understand the large academic work on quality of life, mainly in its urban aspect, is given by the identification of the key-concepts, the dimensions and measurement methods more often used. According to Pacione [25, p. 1], it has been central to academic research the effort to examine the “multidimensional aspects of urban environmental quality and human wellbeing”. It is obvious from a first analysis of the scientific discussion in this field that it is difficult to define the concept of quality of life, since it has not yet stabilized in the literature.
Urban environmental geochemistry of trace metals
2006, Environmental PollutionCitation Excerpt :Furthermore, it is increasingly recognized that the synchronization of such information into urban planning can facilitate the development of healthy and sustainable urban environments. Hence, there is an obvious need for a greater understanding of urban environmental quality (Vlahov and Galea, 2002; Brown, 2003; de Hollander and Staatsen, 2003; Northridge et al., 2003; Pacione, 2003; van Kamp et al., 2003). Urban environmental geochemistry has become an important scientific discipline today.