eprintid: 3764
rev_number: 5
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datestamp: 2022-02-11 08:39:26
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type: thesis
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creators_name: Kaden, Ina Muriel
creators_id: S3768198
creators_email: ina-kaden@web.de
title: Female Safety Perception, the Built Environment, and Behaviour Choice
ispublished: unpub
full_text_status: public
abstract: This paper examines how the safety perception of the built environment influences the behaviour choice of female students. A softGIS approach in the form of a Maptionnaire survey is used to collect spatial, qualitative data. In specific, unsafe areas according to the female survey respondents are mapped for the city of Groningen. The respondent’s comments about the places and routes they marked as unsafe are scrutinized with regard to (1) socio-environmental factors triggering an unsafe feeling, and (2) the decision to avoid or not avoid that particular area. The findings reveal several themes that shape the student’s safety perception and influence their behaviour. The main themes are the presence of lighting that consistently improves the safety of an area, the presence of people and their appearance and actions which has positive or negative impacts, the crowdedness of an area, and the story-telling related to a certain environment.
date: 2022
pages: 45
thesis_type: bachelor
degree_programme: SGP
tutors_name: Daams, M.N.
tutors_organization: Fac. Ruimtelijke wetenschappen, Basiseenheid Economische Geografie
tutors_email: M.N.Daams@rug.nl
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keywords_local: female safety perception
keywords_local: built environment
keywords_local: behaviour choice
language_iso: en
agreed_repository: yes
date_issued: 2022-01-31
citation:   Kaden, Ina Muriel  (2022) Female Safety Perception, the Built Environment, and Behaviour Choice.  Bachelor thesis.   
document_url: https://frw.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/3764/1/Female%20Safety%20Perception%2C%20the%20Built%20Environment%2C%20and%20Behaviour%20Choice.pdf