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Master’s Thesis, 60 ECTS

Social-ecological Resilience for Sustainable Development Master’s programme 2016/18, 120 ECTS

Exploring the role of urban environments for human wellbeing: an analysis of

people’s experiences in Madrid

Paloma Franco Nieto

Stockholm Resilience Centre

Research for Biosphere Stewardship and Innovation

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Abstract

If urban planning is to ensure wellbeing while reducing negative environmental impacts, a better understanding on how different urban environments support or hinder wellbeing is needed. This thesis uses softGIS methodology to understand how different urban environments impact people’s experiences in Madrid. An online PPGIS survey collected people’s positive and negative experiences in Madrid (n=400) as well as the perceived environmental qualities for each experience. The thesis applies affordance theory to analyse experiences. For the spatial analysis, the study uses 6 environmental features and analyses the perceived environmental qualities (PEQ) in all of them. The results suggest that social interaction is the main PEQ for having positive experiences and that it is higher in built environments. On the other hand, the presence of nature is reported to be the most important PEQ in positive experiences in nature environments.

However, social interaction is the main cause for having negative experience regardless of the type of environment. The thesis concludes that this method allows to map restorative environments and describe their PEQ providing a useful tool for urban planners to design cities for citizens’ wellbeing. This thesis suggests that in order to achieve sustainability goals in urban areas while ensuring wellbeing, a focus should be put on transforming places with high number of negative experiences by including some nature elements that can reduce the feeling of crowding without eroding the dynamics of these environments. Also, a better distribution of nature environments could improve wellbeing in urban areas. In addition, creating spaces for social interaction should be other priority in urban planning in Madrid, due to the importance it has for people’s wellbeing.

Key words: perceived environmental qualities, restorative environments, wellbeing, experiences, PPGIS.

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