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Neighborhood vegetation and preferences: Exploring walking behaviors in urban and suburban environments.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Neighborhood vegetation and preferences: Exploring walking behaviors in urban and suburban environments./
Author:	Tilt, Jenna Howick.
Description:	195 p.
Notes:	Advisers: Gordon Bradley; Anne Kearney.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International68-11A.
Subject:	Agriculture, Forestry and Wildlife. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3290601
ISBN:	9780549343493

Neighborhood vegetation and preferences: Exploring walking behaviors in urban and suburban environments.
Tilt, Jenna Howick.

Neighborhood vegetation and preferences: Exploring walking behaviors in urban and suburban environments. - 195 p.

Advisers: Gordon Bradley; Anne Kearney.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Washington, 2007.

This research examines the characteristics of preferred walking environments and how vegetation and preference for vegetation in a neighborhood can affect walking behaviors. The dissertation consists of two studies which assessed neighborhood vegetation objectively in using two different measurements: the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) and the percentage of neighborhood canopy coverage. Vegetation was also assessed subjectively by survey scale items and a photo-questionnaire illustrating a range of neighborhood vegetation levels. Preferences for the neighborhood photos was also measured. Using a postal survey, walking frequency and duration were assessed for both utilitarian walking (i.e., walking to destinations) and recreation walking (i.e., neighborhood walking). The neighborhoods and residents were located in Seattle, Washington and surrounding suburbs.

ISBN: 9780549343493Subjects--Topical Terms:

783690
Agriculture, Forestry and Wildlife.

Neighborhood vegetation and preferences: Exploring walking behaviors in urban and suburban environments.
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