Assessment of sustainability and health promotion of three public parks in Poland’s Pomerania Region

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ID21188529
AuthorsMonika Trojanowska (0000-0001-8168-0746, University of Gdańsk, corresponding author)
Year2024
Issue64
Pages117-136
Publication date2024-06-21
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueBulletin of Geography. Socio-economic Series (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1732-4254 • E-ISSN: 2083-8298
PublisherUniwersytet Mikolaja Kopernika/Nicolaus Copernicus University (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.12775/bgss-2024-0017
OpenAlexW4399892214
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited7

The new tendency in Urban Green Spaces (UGS) design is to establish sustainable and health-promoting public parks – often described as the new (second) generation of public parks. The possibilities of wider implementation of the new generation of public parks are presented as an example of a recently constructed or revitalized park in the Pomerania region. This paper discusses three public parks in the Pomerania region – Public Municipal Parks in Rumia, Reda and Wejherowo. In this study, the main research question was whether the selected parks promote the well-being of inhabitants as well as sustainability. The parks were assessed using a standardized tool – the universal standard of health-promoting urban places. All three parks are places for physical, mental and social restoration of neighborhood communities, as well as ecological education. Thus, they can be regarded as health-affirming urban places

Environmental planning · Geography · Political science · Public health · Public park · Regional science · Sustainability · Botany and Plant Ecology Studies · Integrated Water Resources Management · Medicine · Sustainable Development and Environmental Management

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