Urban park qualities driving visitors mental well-being and wildlife conservation in a Neotropical megacity.

ABSTRACT: Green infrastructure has been widely recognized for the benefits to human health and biodiversity conservation. However, knowledge of the qualities and requirements of such spaces and structures for the effective delivery of the range of ecosystem services expected is still limited, as well as the identification of trade-offs between services. In this study, we apply the One Health approach in the context of green spaces to investigate how urban park characteristics affect human mental health and wildlife support outcomes and identify synergies and trade-offs between these dimensions. Here we show that perceived restorativeness of park users varies significantly across sites and is mainly affected by safety and naturalness perceptions. In turn, these perceptions are driven by objective ind

SUBMITTER: Felappi JF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10902329 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature