Table 4 Goals, dimensions, methods and tools for work package C2
From: The GREENH-City interventional research protocol on health in all policies
Goal: • Observe physical features of green spaces and describe the use and non-use of urban green spaces identified by green space managers and municipal health departments as representing some form of strategy to reduce health inequities (WP C2) | ||
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Dimensions analyzed | Methods and tools | |
WP C2 | For each city: seasonal use green spaces, (the main criteria for attractiveness), leisure use, surroundings, amenities, etc. This work package will complete the geographical data and help to characterize the use, esthetics and management of each urban green space selected. This will serve to enable different cities to share practices and enhance their innovation. For researchers, this will be an observational phase with knowledge transfer in mind | A qualitative study will combine observation in situ and interviews with green space users or non-users, and stakeholders involved in urban green space management and maintenance. - Observations: An observer will make observations in each selected city, at 4 different times per year in the different green spaces identified by the mapping (objective 2). We will explore items in order to characterize green space environments including: esthetics, equipment, leisure amenities, location, neighborhood, and users. - User and non-user interviews: Through on-site meetings with users and non-users living next to green spaces, interviews with residents could be planned in order to learn how they view the green space. Together, the interviews and observation periods at different times of the year will enable us to identify routine and occasional uses of public green spaces. - Stakeholder interviews: For each city, we will interview some key stakeholders of green space interventions (politics, NGOs, spatial planners, citizen committees, local organizations …) in order to better understand local green space policy, use and management. Finally, this study will also include on-site visits with practitioners from the selected cities. For each city observations will be completed by on-site visits with different stakeholders and policy makers concerned by the study. |