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. 2013 Mar 6;10(3):913–935. doi: 10.3390/ijerph10030913

Table 1.

Typology of settings in which interactions between people and nature occur.

Setting Description Examples
Indoor Inside a building Foliage plants [35,36]
Urban Landscape dominated by built form Public green space [37]
Private green space e.g., garden [38]
Roadside trees or isolated urban vegetation [39]
Fringe The area immediately surrounding a town or city Peri-urban nature reserve [37]
Production Landscape Agricultural lands (pastoral or cropping) Paddocks/fields/countryside [10]
Wilderness Area where human influence is low Beach [40]
Ocean [41]
River [42,43]
Water [44,45]
Mountains [46]
Forest/woodland [47]
National Parks [48,49,50]
Specific species Cases where object of the interaction is defined with no particular setting Marine animals [41,51]
Avian [41]
Domesticated pets [52]