Neighbourhood Green Space Tool (NGST)

Tools to incorporate the health perspective in municipal actions

Gidlow, C.j.; Ellis, N. & Bostock, S.
2012

Link to the resource: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0169204612001314?via%3Dihub

Format:: Scientific article

Target population:: Local administrations and/or citizen associations and general populace

Objetive:: Value the quality of a small unripe room or mode (at the field of a residential neighbourhood).

Methodology:

The tool features of a questionnaire with 26 ítems around 5 fields: accessibility, recreational installations, kicks, natural characteristics and evidences of acts incívics.

Each point values at a scale of three points: 0 (nothing/at all); 1 (something/partly); 2 (a lot).

The responses at the ítems of each themed ponderen at function of some percentages (since it does not award the same value at all the fields), obtaining a maximum score of 100 points.

Besides score, more quality of the unripe room.

Opportunities and limitations:

The tool has been proved for cases of survey of United Kingdom and bases at an expert analysis, reviews of literature, bands of argument and surveys at the populace adult (but no at girls or at youngsters).

The method is brief and concise, and the calculus of the score is clear, permitting obtain quantitative results that can being compared with appraisals of other similar unripe rooms.

Indicators:

Number of entries or points of fit.
Presence and number of papereres.
Evidence of vandalism.
Level of rumble.
Quality of the equipment for distinct activities.

Thematic:: Green infrastructure

Link to health:: Physical Mental Social

Scale of the field of study:: Housing / street / building / bounded public space

Implementation phase:: Diagnosis / pre-project Monitoring and evaluation

Methodological approach:: Questionnaire

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