Visual environment as an important environmental factor

  • Elena V. Tolstaya International Sakharov State Environmental Institute, Belorussian State University, 23/1 Daйhabrodskaja Street, Minsk 220070, Belarus
  • Nina A. Kozelko International Sakharov State Environmental Institute, Belorussian State University, 23/1 Daйhabrodskaja Street, Minsk 220070, Belarus https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2423-2178

Abstract

The review shows that the visual (visible) environment around us is one of the important environmental factors affecting human health. The artificial visible environment, primarily urban, is significantly different from the natural and often contradicts the physiology of visual perception. Violation of the visual environment of a person, manifested in an abundance of homogenic and aggressive fields, as well as in an unnatural color environment, leads not only to disruption of the organ of vision, but also contributes to the development of mental disadaptation. The environment is saturated with various visual characteristics that can either mitigate the influence of other negative environmental factors or, conversely, aggravate the ecological situation.

Author Biographies

Elena V. Tolstaya, International Sakharov State Environmental Institute, Belorussian State University, 23/1 Daйhabrodskaja Street, Minsk 220070, Belarus

PhD (medicine), docent; аssociate professor at the department of environmental medicine and radiobiology

Nina A. Kozelko, International Sakharov State Environmental Institute, Belorussian State University, 23/1 Daйhabrodskaja Street, Minsk 220070, Belarus

senior lecturer at the department of environmental medicine and radiobiology

Published
2019-08-16
Keywords: visual environment, visual ecology, homogenic and aggressive fields, psychoemotional state
How to Cite
Tolstaya, E. V., & Kozelko, N. A. (2019). Visual environment as an important environmental factor. Journal of the Belarusian State University. Ecology, 2, 13-20. Retrieved from https://journals.bsu.by/index.php/ecology/article/view/2703
Section
Social and Environmental Problems of Sustainable Development