EVS PROJECT REPORT NAME OF THE COLLEGE: A.P. COLLEGE PF COMMERCE AND SCIENCE NA,E OF THE STUDENT: ABDUL RASHID JAFER ALI KHAN CLASS: S.Y.JC. COMMERCE A ROLL No:. 16 SEAT No.______________ TITILE OF THE PROJECT PEOPLE VALUE GREEN SURROUNDI AS IMPORTAN PART OF THERE LIFE OBJECTIVES
AIM OF THE PROJECT 'To check the awareness this survey was designed to investigate the value of urban greenspaces in environmental development and outdoor recreation pursuit in the city. The objective was to analyse the impacts of greenspace on the physical and psychological environment of urban dwellers. The specific objective was to reveal the response and perception of urban dwellers toward value of greenspaces in their sociopsychological life and city's natural environmental improvements. This study also endeavoured to analyse people's response toward urban greenspaces development constraints and management strategies. Human well-being is the extent to which individuals have the ability and the opportunity to live the kinds of lives they have reason to value. Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social wellbeing, and not merely the absence of disease or illness. Good health not only includes being strong and feeling well, but also freedom from avoidable disease, a healthy physical environment, access to energy, safe water and clean air. What one can be and do include among others, the ability to keep fit, minimize health related stress, and ensure access to medical care. REVIEW OF LITERATURE Research confirms that the impacts of parks and green environments on human health extend beyond social and psychological health outcomes to include physical health outcomes.
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Research shows that a walk in the park is more than just a nice way to spend an afternoon. It's an essential component for good health, according to University of Illinois environment and behavior researcher Frances "Ming" Kuo. "Through the decades, parks advocates, landscape architects, and popular writers have consistently claimed that nature had healing powers," Kuo said. "But until recently, their claims haven't undergone rigorous scientific assessment." Kuo is also the director of the Landscape and Human Health Laboratory at the U of I and has studied the effect of green space on humans in a number of settings in order to prove or disprove the folklore notions. "Researchers have studied the effects of nature in many different populations, using many forms of nature," Kuo said. "They've looked at Chicago public housing residents living in high-rises with a tree or two and some grass outside their apartment buildings; college students exposed to slide shows of natural scenes while sitting in a classroom; children with attention deficit disorder playing in a wide range of settings; senior citizens in Tokyo with varying degrees of access to green walkable streets; and middle-class volunteers spending their Saturdays restoring prairie ecosystems, just to name a few." Kuo says that although the diversity of the research on this subject is impressive and important, even more important is the rigor with which the work was conducted. "In greener settings, we find that people are more generous and more sociable. We find stronger neighborhood social ties and greater sense of community, more mutual trust and willingness to help others. "In less green environments, we find higher rates of aggression, violence, violent crime, and property crime -- even after controlling for income and other differences," she said. "We also find more evidence of loneliness and more individuals reporting inadequate social support." NEXT PAGE RELEVANCE IMPORTANCE Green spaces are a great benefit to our environment. They filter pollutants and dust from the air, they provide shade and lower temperatures in urban areas, and they even reduce erosion of soil into our waterways. These are just a few of the environmental benefits that green spaces provide. Natural resource conservation. By using trees to modify temperatures, the amount of fossil fuels used for cooling and heating is reduced. Properly placed deciduous trees reduce house temperatures in the summer, allowing air conditioning units to run 2 to 4 percent more efficiently. The trees also allow the sun to warm the house in the winter.
Parks and Other Green Environments: Essential Components of a Healthy Human was published in a research series for the National Recreation and Park Association. Since the beginning, trees have furnished us with two of life's essentials, food and oxygen. As we evolved, they provided additional necessities such as shelter, medicine, and tools. Today, their value continues to increase and more benefits of trees are being discovered as their role expands to satisfy the needs created by our modern lifestyles. PROPSED METHODOLOGY The following citations are of recent literature that show the benefits of nature or green space on human health and interactions. From mental health, to obesity rates, to pre- and postnatal health, to crime rates – the nearness of nature promotes positive outcomes in many aspects of human life. As the following papers show, application of nature does not necessarily need to be done in a directly therapeutic model. Scroll through the paper abstracts, use the citations to find the full articles, and be inspired to access nature and green space in your life and help others do the same. DESCRIPTION OF METHOD 1. IS THR GREENERY IN YOUR SURROUNDING? 2. DO YOU FEEL GREEN SURROUNDING HELP TO REDUCE STRESS AND DEPRESSION? 3. DO YOU KEEP PLANTS I YOUR HOUSE OR GROW THEM IN YOUR SOCIETY? 4. IN THE FUTURE BEFORE BUYING A HOUSE WILL YOU CHECK WHETEHR THE PLACE HAS GREEN SURROUNDING?
OBSERVATION YES Q.1 Q.2 Q.3 Q.4 ANALYSI S
NO 30 25 20 25
DON'T KNOW 0 5 10 5
0 0 0 0
RESULT ACCORDING TO SCHEDULE MOST OF THE PEOPLE SAYS THAT THERE IS A GREEN SURROUNDIN IN THERE SOCIETY. -
BIBLIOGRAPGHY University of Illinois Researcher Frances "Ming" Kuo. http://lhhl.illinois.edu/media/2005.07_kanter.html
