Public Health Benefit Enhancement of Urban Green Spaces Based on Recreation Opportunity Spectrum Theory

LI Chenyang; LIN Guangsi

doi:10.19798/j.cnki.2096-6946.2025.05.009

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Industrial & Engineering Design ›› 2025, Vol. 7 ›› Issue (5) : 73-80. DOI: 10.19798/j.cnki.2096-6946.2025.05.009

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Public Health Benefit Enhancement of Urban Green Spaces Based on Recreation Opportunity Spectrum Theory

LI Chenyang, LIN Guangsi^*

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Urban green spaces serve as crucial environmental resources for improving public health outcomes among residents, with their health benefits closely linked to users' recreational activities. Existing researches have primarily focused on recreational resource management and optimization, yet have not fully utilized the mature framework of Recreation Opportunity Spectrum (ROS) theory for classifying recreational environments to guide resource allocation aimed at maximizing health benefits. The work aims to explore pathways for enhancing the public health benefits of urban green spaces based on ROS theory. By reviewing the connotations of ROS theory and its applications in urban green space research, theoretical analysis is employed to map the six recreational environment categories of the Recreation Opportunity Spectrum to urban green spaces, and the pathways for enhancing users' public health benefits are identified from three dimensions of physical characteristics, social characteristics, and managerial characteristics. At the physical characteristics level, it is proposed to construct multi-temporal and multi-spatial health-oriented living circles around urban green spaces to meet users' health activity needs ranging from daily activities and weekend family leisure to in-depth nature experiences during holidays. At the social characteristics level, it is advocated to create social interaction spaces spanning from solitude to group engagement to satisfy users' diverse social needs. At the managerial characteristics level, it is recommended to establish a differentiated management system ranging from low-intensity to high-intensity interventions, combined with dynamic monitoring of user behaviors and spatial environments, to achieve precise management and continuous optimization of recreational resources. Ultimately, this study provides a theoretical framework and practical pathways for promoting the alignment between urban residents' diverse health needs and green space recreational resources, thereby enhancing the effectiveness of urban public health management.

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urban green spaces / public health / recreation opportunity spectrum / recreation behavior / health benefits

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LI Chenyang, LIN Guangsi. Public Health Benefit Enhancement of Urban Green Spaces Based on Recreation Opportunity Spectrum Theory[J]. Industrial & Engineering Design. 2025, 7(5): 73-80 https://doi.org/10.19798/j.cnki.2096-6946.2025.05.009

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