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datestamp: 2020-04-23 05:20:30
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type: thesis
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creators_name: Lankhorst, A.
title: Do trees improve the subjective quality of the physical environment?
ispublished: pub
full_text_status: public
abstract: This study investigates if, and to what extent, the proximity of trees in parks improves the physical environment. Almost no research has been conducted on the influence of trees. The effect of tree height and tree density in parks on the “physical environment score” from the Leefbaarometer 2.0 is tested through a multiple linear regression model. My research shows that there indeed is a positive and significant influence of trees in parks on the quality of the physical environment. Namely, the further away the park with trees is located from an observation point, the lower the physical environment score on this point is. However, the multiple linear regression model did not show a strong relationship because a maximum of eight percent of the variation in the dependent variable can be explained by the independent variables in this research. Therefore, no decisive conclusion can be drawn from this study.
date: 2019
date_type: published
thesis_type: pre_master
degree_programme: SP
tutors_name: Ballas, D. prof. dr.
keywords_local: multiple linear regression
keywords_local: tree density
keywords_local: tree height
keywords_local: trees
keywords_local: parks
keywords_local: urban green spaces
keywords_local: Liveability
keywords_local: Quality of Life
keywords_local: physical environment
language_iso: en
titleorder: Do trees improve the subjective quality of the physical environment?
dbi: 5d4ac17342528
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date_of_import: 2020-04-22
imported_from: http://scripties.frw.eldoc.ub.rug.nl/root/premasters/SocialePlanologie/2019/alankhorst/
import_source_file: theses-frw-20200422132455-5d4ac17342528.xml
date_issued: 2019-01-01
citation:   Lankhorst, A.  (2019) Do trees improve the subjective quality of the physical environment?  Pre-master thesis.   
document_url: https://frw.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/784/1/Thesis_Ann_Lankhorst_s2524244.pdf