5. Distinctions and similarities
Tranquillity
• Senses
• State of mind – peace
• Effect on body
• Effect on Feel good factor
• In Urban or rural (and
coastal)
• Antithesis - mankind
• Individual
• Subjective
Well being
• Senses
• State of mind – peace
• Physical
• Effect on ‘Feel good’ factor
• Urban or rural (and coastal)
• Antithesis - not necessarily
related to mankind
• Individual
• Subjective
• Collective – family, society,
economy
6. Value - increasing proof!
• Effect of tranquillity and wellbeing on i.e.:
– Elderly patients
– Dementia (Stepping into Nature!)
– Depression – Pain (tranquillity or tranquillisers)
– OCD (Mediation vs Medication)
• Tourism and Leisure opps
• Conservation - planning
7. Value…
• “Climb the mountains and get their good
tidings. Nature’s peace will flow into you
as sunshine flows into the trees. The
winds blow their freshness into you and
the storms their energy, while cares drop
off you like autumn leaves.”
• John Muir
8. But how do you pin down tranquillity
and well being?
• How identify when they are so personal?
• What is normal? What is benchmark and who
decides this? Whose views count?
• And when you have identified them, how do
you create, monitor and evaluate the
impacts/benefits?
• Why do it? And if you do, what funds
resources can help or even progress your
projects for you?
11. Enhancements
1. All local and most recent data used – topographical
and householders
2. Land and Coastal dimension (inclusive of ‘urban’
areas)
3. Increased resolution from 500x500 m (250m) to
5mx5m!
4. All models and maps directly informed by
participants’
5. Practical calculations for use by local governing
officers
13. GIS workflow and filtering
Normalise tranquility indices
Obtain digital data From project partners, Edina etc
Build GIS project Using ArcGIS 10.1
Model tranquility indices e.g. cost surface, viewshed
Combine tranquility indices by votes
Models
14. Tranquillity - Dorset
Tranquil
• What could be seen
• What could be heard
• What was experienced
• Perceived
• Natural environment
– Water, trees/woods, open
spaces
• Mankind features
Non tranquil
• See, hear and experience
anything manmade –
– Traffic
– Infrastructure
– Industry
– Other people and children!
Esp.visitors
• Safety
• ‘Bad habits’
15. Householders - features selected by
respondents - % order of popularity
Tranquil
Feature: % of
respondents
Natural environment and sounds 88.2%
Large Open Spaces 75.9%
Few People around especially in
the countryside
71.1%
Able to see the coastline and hear
the sea
66.1%
Features that are in keeping with
the Purbeck landscape’ e.g.
villages, nature, open space,
cultural heritage
57.1%
Other* 19.3%
Total Views - 1726
Non tranquil
Feature: % of
respondents
Noise pollution (man-made) 74%
Holiday season and feeling of
being overcrowded: amount of
people, cars, traffic jams
67.8%
Man-made infrastructure and built
up areas
67.3%
Seaside noise(people, loud music,
cars, jet skis and power boats)
59.2%
Litter and fly tipping 57.1%
Other* 22.3%
Total 1588
16. Visitors – experiences and perceptions
Tranquil
Top ranked Topics
1.Views and landscape
2.Peace and quiet
3. Sea and seascape
4. Countryside and rural features
5 Nature and wildlife
5 Other : safety – unspoilt nature
experiences – sense of space –
village life – friendliness –
peaceful people - opp to be
myself!
Non-Tranquil
Top ranked Topics
1.Traffic
2.Crowds
3. man-made noise
4. Other
5 shops
5 Pace and stress
18. Where you live …..
• ‘How could anyone think this is not a tranquil
place!?’
– Visitor 31 – on Studland Beach 31st August. Origin
London.
• ‘its turning into a disney area – losing
tranquillity and peace that the visitors come
for!’
– Resident – F – Harmons Cross, Purbeck Dorset.
19. Practical use & funds
• AONB Management Plans
• Dark Skies Strategies
• Green Infrastructure
• Consultations – evidence base:
• distinctive views = implications for
breadth and depth of consultation.
• NPPF – 77 & 123
– Local planning
– Urban areas
• Wellbeing strategies i.e zones,
access, safety and way marking –
identifying/designating ‘special
‘areas.
• Visitor Management and Promotion
• Transferability to alternative areas
• Implementation of Environmental
Noise Directive (END)
• Research Grants
– Participatory workshop
RGS
• Health
• Women
• Arts
• Natural environment
– Integrated land
management and
business
• Community
– partnership
opportunities
– Knowledge Exchange
– Elderly
– Young
– washing up and drawing strings together
Key note – Beauty of AoNBS when turmoil in the country and business as usual needed perhaps more than ever!
Part of that beauty is the tranquil space experienced by residents, managed by governing bodies/insitutitons and perceived/anticipated to be experienced by visitors
Part of well being is the tranquility offered by AONBS and National Parks and green spaces in urban areas…….
so just how important is tranquillity and does it effect well being?.................
Lots of cross overs – tranquillity and well being so closely linked!
Some of which cover will have already been covered some new on tranquillity and well being
Asked today to speak on value of tranquillity to health and well being
Will take value shortly but purely taking tranquillity and wellbeing…..
Interesting focus – two concepts -highly complex, comprised multiple aspects, require interdisciplinary study, but are closely linked – sense of interdependence amongst the two – at the most basic level we assume that well being and tranquillity exist somewhere out there or inside ourselves - characteristics on the 2 further assert a variety of components they are generally considered to comprise so for example tranquillity = natural environments, no man made noise etc and well being = good physical health and positive state of mind.
Also a relatively generally accepted view point that they each are perceived subjectively, though there will be similar traits - Highly personal
As to what is or not tranquil and to how that situation makes you feel, physically , emotionally and in turn the effect this has on our health and even argued in terms of how it affects our thoughts!
There are commonly agreed similarities and whilst fewer, distinctions
Whilst recognised for decades, increasing interest in wellbeing for human sake, but also linked to business, economics and politics – Foresight report mental wellbeing directly linked to mental capital and in turn, economy
Economic value and tourism – spend in the countryside <3 billion – Visit Britain 2008 & the Tourism Society
Value of achieving tranquil spaces to natural enviornmnt - conservation strategies and identifying tranquil spaces in turn, implementing NPPF!
Intrinsic value summed up by Muir
Aimed to pin down tranquillity as contributor to well being through collating wide range of views then converting them into GIS models and maps - Based o original CPRE 03 studies – 13-15 BETP financed by ESRC and in partnership with DCC and DAONB
To help support decisions taken in the DAONB in relation to development and conservation balance.
Represented some key progressions a) the most broadest and deepest study on tranquillity to date that resulted in b) the biggest consultation in Dorset to date, possibly the south as a consultation of its kind
But what was also progressed, to engage more broadly than ever before with all local constituents (noting subjectivity of the term) and inclusive of visitors to the case area of Purbecks
In so doing, More than 9,600 views in total were collated through 4 research stages in total comprising fewer than 1,000 participants of which 55% were modelled
– 2 series of focus groups, household survey, visitor onsite survey.
More views on tranquillity than non tranquillity overall
Peace – more than half of the free views conveyed!
Ultimately the models discerned obvious distinctions
Further insight amongst visitors dependant on where they had come from in comparison with residents