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.

Credit: University of Illinois

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."
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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.
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BIBLIOGRAPGHY
University of Illinois
Researcher Frances "Ming" Kuo.
http://lhhl.illinois.edu/media/2005.07_kanter.html