Are there surveys/measurement tools that can assess the impact on residents, air and water quality, landscape, forests and wildlife and drive the direction of a community improvement project?
Generally speaking, with regards to tools/framework for measuring the quality of an existing environment: "Inquiry by Design" and "User-Needs gap" - (Zeisel 1981) may be helpful. More specifically some of the tools include Behavioral Mapping,
Physical Trace Measures and Pre-Design Evaluation / Post-Occupancy Evaluation.
You can also shearch about this topics in eh journal of environmental psychology? In the past years there was a lot on research on these topics and usage, recycling, new use of space, etc. A majority on research in this field are now on global changes, global warming and how t change behavior or promote community actions.
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