Epsilon Archive for Student Projects

Abstract

The topic to this investigation has been the conflicting demands of a denser city vs. a green more sustainable city. To see if urban forestry, micro-forests and especially hybrid micro-forests are an opportunity to introduce restorative and instorative nature beneficial to human well-being and health in the modern city? To do this I have used stakeholder interviews to get in-depth knowledge from the professions on the thinking on micro-forests implementation, a questionnaire has been used to investigate if perceptions of urban greenspace visitors confirm the perceived sensory dimensions theory and finally the study used landscape analysis to investigate how benefits from micro-forests and hybrid micro-forests affects our sentiment and mood. The conclusion of the study is that micro-forests has an large potential impact on human health and well-being through physical activity and social interaction when constructing and caring for a micro-forest, thereby creating community engagement and bonding. Micro-forests also has an impact on our health and well-being by increasing our being in nature through eco-education and opening up other possibilities to access nature, thereby decreasing the demands on our attention. Finally micro-forests are strengthening our immune-systems by the higher degree of biodiversity a urban forest or a micro-forest enables.