Is Green Space in the Living Environment Associated with People's Feelings of Social Safety?

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Moving Towards the Circular Economy/City Model: Which Tools for Operationalizing This Model? (2019, background): “Studies have also identified positive health relations between distance to urban green spaces and health benefits, highlighting that the proximity to urban green spaces [119] and viewing greenery [120,121] can produce positive health impacts.”
A socio-ecological exploration of fear of crime in urban green spaces – A systematic review (2014, background): “Sample size ranged from 25 (Hung and Crompton, 2006) to 83,763 (Maas et al., 2009).”
Mental Health and the Built Environment (2011, background): “Similarly, the presence of more greenspace in a person’s living environment is associated with enhanced feelings of safety, except in very dense urban areas (Maas et al. 2009).”
Benefits of restoring ecosystem services in urban areas (2015, background): “Cognitive development in urban green areas includes the development and transmission of local ecological knowledge [52,54,55].”
A dose-response curve describing the relationship between tree cover density and landscape preference (2015, background): “…a handful of studies that examine the impact of tree cover density on human health use tree cover density (Donovan, Michael, Butry, Sullivan, & Chase, 2011; Holtan et al., 2014) or green cover density measurements (Maas et al., 2009; Mitchell & Popham, 2008) taken from aerial imagery or maps.”