Environmental Quality and Human Well-being. Outcomes of a workshop
In April 2002 an international workshop on environmental quality and human well-being was held at Utrecht, the Netherlands. The workshop was aimed at obtaining consensus on basic principles and assumptions underlying conceptual models concerning environmental quality (EQ) and quality of life (QoL) and to initiate a plan for international research collaboration in this field.
The problem of environmental quality was presented from six different perspectives (abstracts in Appendix 1). The highlights of the papers, subsequent discussions and conclusions focused on six topics:
- definitions
- models
- choice of domains and indicators
- spatial scal-level
- gap between theory and practice
- communication and participation of stakeholders
These discussion of these topics were the starting point for an Expression of Interest (EoI, EU 6th framework Program, Integrated Project, see Appendix 2) concerning the problem of development and quality of life in urban residential areas all over Europe. Meanwhile the EoI has been submitted to the EU. Furthermore some of the papers presented at the workshop will appear as full papers in a special issue of the journal for Landscape and Urban Planning (for the contents of this issue, see Appendix 3
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- Publication title
- Environmental Quality and Human Well-being. Outcomes of a workshop
- Publication date
- 28 August 2003
- Publication type
- Publication
- Publication language
- English
- Product number
- 91060