Influencia de las áreas verdes en el bienestar de los ciudadanos en Bogotá, Colombia

Abstract

Green areas have been related in the last years with positive effects on people, therefore, they are realted with well-being. Given that there is a deficiency of green areas in Latino American cities and there are no studies in Bogotá measruing the relationship between green areas and citizen well-being. This study´s objective was to lay dawn the correlation between the size of the green areas within 500 meters of a citizen’s residences and their level of well-being. To these ends we used a Landsat 8, 2014 image and the normalized vegetation index to identify green areas in Bogotá. Subsequently, we used the Encuesta Bienal de la Secretaria de Cultura, Recreación y Deporte to find the size of the Green areas. Finally, we used a Chi Square and Spearman correlation and a multiple correspondence analysis to statistically determine the relationship between demographic, well-being variables and green area. We found that there is a relationship between education, socioeconomic strata, and well-being variables with green area. Low socioeconomic strata and low educational level presented the smallest area of green and the lowest well-being. Conversely, people of the highest social strata presented the largest green areas and the highest values of well-being.