Research Note: Residential distance and recreational visits to coastal and inland blue spaces in eighteen countries
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White, Mathew P
Grellier, James
Garrett, Joanne K
Cirach, Marta
Wheeler, Benedict W
Bratman, Gregory N
van den Bosch, Matilda A
Ojala, Ann
Roiko, Anne
Lima, Maria L
O'Connor, Aisling
Gascon, Mireia
Nieuwenhuijsen, Mark
Fleming, Lora E
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Varied categorisations of residential distance to bluespace in population health studies make comparisons difficult. Using survey data from eighteen countries, we modelled relationships between residential distance to blue spaces (coasts, lakes, and rivers), and self-reported recreational visits to these environments at least weekly, with penalised regression splines. We observed exponential declines in visit probability with increasing distance to all three environments and demonstrated the utility of derived categorisations. These categories may be broadly applicable in future research where the assumed underlying mechanism between residential distance to a blue space and a health outcome is direct recreational contact.
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Landscape and Urban Planning
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198
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© 2020 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/BY-NC-ND/4.0/), which permits unrestricted, non-commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, providing that the work is properly cited.
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Elliott, LR; White, MP; Grellier, J; Garrett, JK; Cirach, M; Wheeler, BW; Bratman, GN; van den Bosch, MA; Ojala, A; Roiko, A; Lima, ML; O'Connor, A; Gascon, M; Nieuwenhuijsen, M; Fleming, LE, Research Note: Residential distance and recreational visits to coastal and inland blue spaces in eighteen countries, Landscape and Urban Planning, 2020, 198, pp. 103800