ArticleLand use policy2022
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the importance of urban green spaces to the public.
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- Features of the land use and COVID-19 cases and deaths in urban and land counties in Poland throughout the pandemic: a machine learning approach.BMC public health · 2026Article
- Ecosystem structure influences human health outcomes as the basis for green prescriptions.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Post-pandemic one health: Unpacking the role of greenspaces and human-dog interactions in long-term health and well-being.One health (Amsterdam, Netherlands) · 2025Review
- An Umbrella Review of Quality of Life Among the General Population During the COVID-19 Pandemic.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Review
- Dataset for visitations of public green spaces in Shanghai, China.Scientific data · 2025Article
- The spatial dynamics of urban vegetation and housing prices: Insights from pre- and post-pandemic Chicago using OLS and MGWR models.PloS one · 2025Article
- Impact of natural views on mental health during COVID-19 quarantine: A natural experiment.Journal of environmental psychology · 2024Article
- Green Villages, the Pandemic, and the Future of California Urbanism.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2024Review
- Assessing Immediate and Lasting Impacts of COVID-19-Induced Isolation on Green Space Usage Patterns.GeoHealth · 2024Article
- Perceived urban green spaces and youth mental health in the post-COVID-19 era.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
- Green infrastructure inequality in the context of COVID-19: Taking parks and trails as examples.Urban forestry & urban greening · 2023Article
- Impacts of rising COVID-19 incidence and changed working conditions on forest visits in early 2020 of the pandemic: Evidence from Switzerland.Forest policy and economics · 2023Article
- Natural environments, psychosocial health, and health behaviors in a crisis - A scoping review of the literature in the COVID-19 context.Journal of environmental psychology · 2023Article
- COVID-19 pandemic changes the recreational use of Moscow parks in space and time: Outcomes from crowd-sourcing and machine learning.Urban forestry & urban greening · 2023Article
- Covid-19 and outdoor recreation - Lessons learned? Introduction to the special issue on "Outdoor recreation and Covid-19: Its effects on people, parks and landscapes".Journal of outdoor recreation and tourism · 2023Article
- Understanding the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Perception and Use of Urban Green Spaces in Korea.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- A systematic review of urban green space research over the last 30 years: A bibliometric analysis.Heliyon · 2023Review
- Changes in the relationship between Index of Concentration at the Extremes and U.S. urban greenspace: a longitudinal analysis from 2001-2019.Humanities & social sciences communications · 2023Article
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Abstract
Green spaces provide people with countless intangible benefits, particularly important during crises. Restrictions imposed in many countries due to the COVID-19 pandemic forced people to maintain social distance, limit travels, and even refrain from visiting green spaces and stay at home at a certain point. The survey in one of the largest cities in Poland, Kraków, was intended to help understand the impact of the pandemic on the importance of urban green spaces to the public. The study focused on the first three stages of the pandemic in Poland, from March to November 2020. Nine weeks of the survey yielded over 1250 responses. Responses to spatial questions were analysed with GIS tools and geoprocessing algorithms. The number of visitors to green spaces during the pandemic fell to 78.9% of the population, which is down 13.1% compared to before the pandemic. At the same time, the percentage of people refraining from the visits fell with each phase of the crisis. According to the study, residents believed green spaces to be important for their mental and physical health. Over 75% of the participants considered visits to green spaces as having a very big or big impact on stress level reduction. The work provides empirical proof of the importance of green spaces to residents, particularly during a crisis. The results can affect urban spatial policies and management of green spaces and can potentially be applied in other cities.
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