tailieunhanh - Good for Busine$$: The benefits of making streets more walking and cycling friendly

Students enrolled in the Graziadio School of Business and Management may purchase all class textbooks and materials from the bookstores located at the West Los Angeles Graduate Campus, or the Drescher Graduate Campus for students attending classes in Malibu. The West Los Angeles Graduate Campus bookstore provides a variety of services to ensure optimum convenience for students. Textbook orders can be placed online at . The bookstores also offer a selection of office supplies, reference books, and other convenience items | Heart Foundation Good for Business The benefits of making streets more Discussion paper Introduction The Heart Foundation has commissioned a discussion paper that explores the economic benefits of making streets more walking and cycling friendly. Background Physical inactivity is a significant risk factor for cardiovascular disease and other chronic diseases such as type 2 diabetes and some cancers. The growing prevalence of physical inactivity in Australia along with the alarming rise in the number of South Australians who are overweight or obese is putting an enormous strain on the health system. Walking is an activity that will not just benefit the health system. Increasing walking will also provide gains in relation to economic vitality climate change traffic congestion social cohesion and community safety. The Heart Foundation works towards creating an environment that encourages people to walk more often. The Heart Foundation SA is asking all state and local government departments to consider walking first when developing policies strategies guidelines projects programs planning and events. We are working to raise the profile of walking to initiate discussions and debate and to put walking onto the agenda of a broad range of departments. A potential barrier identified in 2010 was around retailer perceptions that creating pedestrian and cycle friendly streets would negatively impact on the retail sales of the traders located on those streets. Retailers and trading associations had opposed reducing traffic speeds in high pedestrian areas and had called for more car parking near local shops. As a result of identifying this barrier to creating walking and cycling friendly environments the Heart Foundation commissioned Dr Rodney Tolley the Director of Walk21 to develop an independent discussion paper that explored the benefits to retailers residents and councils. In particular it looked at case studies from around the world that show the increased business and .

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