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dc.contributor.authorUpadhyay, Anir Kumar
dc.date.accessioned2014-07-10
dc.date.available2015-02-12
dc.date.issued2013-08-31
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2123/11489
dc.description.abstractHuman and environmental well-being is the main goal of sustainable development. Quality of Life (QoL) which is often used to measure human well-being, constitutes existential factors, but excludes attributes of people and local environment. In the absence of people’s perception towards the environment and satisfaction associated with environmental features, QoL remains an incomplete expression of human well-being. This study includes attributes of people and environment and has defined a new QoL metric – environmental QoL (QoLe) – to measure progress towards sustainability at neighbourhood scale. The QoLe model includes environmental attributes, perceived neighbourhood satisfaction and environmental attitudes of people, and explores the relationships between them. The testing of the model involved field work in an ecologically sustainable development (ESD) and a conventional neighbourhood from south-east Queensland, Australia. In the ESD, protection and enhancement of the natural environment was emphasised and the built environment is designed to be environment friendly and sustainable. Majority of the residents demonstrated a Preservation (pro environmental) attitude and expressed an overall high level of satisfaction with their neighbourhood. The conventional neighbourhood lacked sustainable planning and design features. Majority of the residents demonstrated a Utilisation (pro-utilitarian) attitude and they were relatively less satisfied with their neighbourhood environment quality. The QoLe allows exploration of congruity/ incongruity between neighbourhood environmental quality and the level of satisfaction associated with them. It will provide policy planners, developers and designers with an understanding of the conflicting interests between the neighbourhood environment quality and individuals’ expectations based on their environmental attitudes. The study highlights that environmental and human well-being requires people-environment congruity.en_AU
dc.subjectWell beingen_AU
dc.subjectQuality of lifeen_AU
dc.subjectEnvironmental quality of lifeen_AU
dc.subjectSustainable developmenten_AU
dc.subjectEnvironmental attitudeen_AU
dc.subjectPerceived neighbourhood satisfactionen_AU
dc.subjectEnvironmental qualityen_AU
dc.subjectPeople-environment congruityen_AU
dc.titleExploring the environmental quality of life for sustainable neighbourhood planningen_AU
dc.typeThesisen_AU
dc.date.valid2014-01-01en_AU
dc.type.thesisDoctor of Philosophyen_AU
usyd.facultyFaculty of Architecture, Design and Planningen_AU
usyd.degreeDoctor of Philosophy Ph.D.en_AU
usyd.awardinginstThe University of Sydneyen_AU


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