Beyond land cover: How integrated remote sensing and social media data analysis facilitates assessment of cultural ecosystem services

Karasov, Oleksandr; Heremans, Stien; Külvik, Mart; Domnich, Artem; Burdun, Iuliia; Kull, Ain; Helm, Aveliina; Uuemaa, Evelyn

doi:10.1016/j.ecoser.2021.101391

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“…Put simply, distribution justice is the geographical equality of locations regarding the environmental “thing” relative to the people who are impacted by it. This particular form of environmental justice has been exceedingly common in research (Karasov et al, 2022; Liu, Shen, et al, 2021; Reeder et al, 2022; Walker et al, 2021; Xu et al, 2019), with researchers studying distribution topics ranging from environmental harms such as polluting enterprises (Liu, Shen, et al, 2021) or vulnerability to flooding (Chakraborty et al, 2020), to environmental benefits like urban green spaces (Liu, Kwan, & Kan, 2021) or beach access (Montgomery et al, 2015). This is the same type of injustice that sparked the initial movement itself, with the establishment of a hazardous waste landfill in geographic proximity to a Community of Color in Warren County, North Carolina in 1982 (Tzoumis, 1992).…”

Section: Modern Components and Definitionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Environmental justice: An evolving concept in a dynamic era

Knoble

2023

Sustainable Development

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Studies of environmental justice in the United States started more than four decades ago when an African American dominant community was chosen as the site of a hazardous landfill. Many works have emerged since then, evolving around the concepts of distribution justice, representation justice, and recognition justice. Scholars attempt to address the environmental justice topic from a wide range of angles with multiple modern research methods. As an important aspect of sustainable development, we conducted a literature review in an attempt to summarize the progress of environmental justice studies in recent years. Under the broad framework of sustainable development, we investigate the origin of environmental justice studies, the traditional and modern approaches scholars applied to investigate the subject, and the applications of the concepts in recent years, especially in the era of a global pandemic. We also explore the application of environmental justice in recent planning practices. The purposes of the study are to further exploration of environmental justice, and analyze theories and explanations on what causes environmental justice and injustice. This study will pave a way for future advancements in sustainability science that will provide new opportunities and tools to be used by academics, policymakers, and urban planners alike.

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Section: Modern Components and Definitionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Environmental justice: An evolving concept in a dynamic era

Knoble

2023

Sustainable Development

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“…In urban geography, thematic applications from the fusion of remote sensing and social media data are manifold: examples include the mapping of population [173], the analysis of urban green space with public health [104], [105], the prediction of socio-economic variables such as GDP, ethnicity, population density, and medical indicators [106], [173], the assessment of cultural ecosystem services [153] or sustainable development [147], and the determination of house prices [174], among many others. The most obvious and widespread application, however, is the classification of building usages.…”

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confidence: 99%

Geoinformation Harvesting From Social Media Data: A community remote sensing approach

Zhu

Wang

Kochupillai

et al. 2022

IEEE Geosci. Remote Sens. Mag.

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As unconventional sources of geo-information, massive imagery and text messages from open platforms and social media form a temporally quasi-seamless, spatially multiperspective stream, but with unknown and diverse quality. Due to its complementarity to remote sensing data, geo-information from these sources offers promising perspectives, but harvesting is not trivial due to its data characteristics. In this article, we address key aspects in the field, including data availability, analysisready data preparation and data management, geo-information extraction from social media text messages and images, and the fusion of social media and remote sensing data. We then showcase some exemplary geographic applications. In addition, we present the first extensive discussion of ethical considerations of social media data in the context of geo-information harvesting and geographic applications. With this effort, we wish to stimulate curiosity and lay the groundwork for researchers who intend to explore social media data for geo-applications. We encourage the community to join forces by sharing their code and data.

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“…For the evaluation of CES, most research has primarily focused on the supply (Bing et al, 2021) and gradually considered the demand (Karasov et al, 2022). Some studies have measured the supply of CES to reflect its potential and accessibility through socioecological indicators (Peña et al, 2015;Peña-Alonso et al, 2018).…”

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“…Despite technological advances, using social media data to assess CES demand still has limitations (Ghermandi and Sinclair, 2019;Crouzat et al, 2022;Karasov et al, 2022). Social media primarily concentrates on younger, well-educated, and more-experienced people (Donahue et al, 2018;Erskine et al, 2021).…”

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confidence: 99%

POIs-based public preferences mapping on imbalanced supply-demand of recreation services can support sustainable coastal beach management

Li,

Xiang,

2024

Front. Mar. Sci.

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Cultural ecosystem services (CES) based on nature experiences substantially contribute to public health and human well-being. However, CES’s supply-demand methodology remains scarcely explored on the coastal beach, and the demand relating to public preferences has not been sufficiently unveiled in spatial assessment. Here, we selected recreation services as a lens of CES and applied the knowledge of multi-source big data to better reflect public preferences. Point of Interests (POIs) refer to particularly valuable or interesting places. We proposed to integrate POIs and social media data (Weibo check-in) to quantify the demand for beach recreation services (BRS). We also used socio-ecological indicators to quantify the BRS’s supply. The supply-demand balance of BRS was further identified by quadrant analysis and coupling coordination degree. Our methodology was applied to a typical coastal zone, Shenzhen Dapeng New District, in the Greater Bay Area of China. Over 80% of the beaches in the study area exhibited an imbalanced or barely balanced supply-demand of recreation services. We found that POIs density had a significant influence on a balanced supply-demand of BRS. Multi-source big data (POIs and Weibo check-in) provided an efficient, low-cost, and across-scale approach for public preference mapping than traditional questionnaire surveys. The proposed CES’s supply-demand framework can identify coastal beaches with imbalanced recreation and support sustainable coastal management. Coastal beach management prioritizes not only waste prevention and sufficient safety signs but also proper infrastructure development that contribute sustainably to the human well-being of nature experiences.

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Beyond land cover: How integrated remote sensing and social media data analysis facilitates assessment of cultural ecosystem services

Cited by 23 publications

References 79 publications

Environmental justice: An evolving concept in a dynamic era

Environmental justice: An evolving concept in a dynamic era

Geoinformation Harvesting From Social Media Data: A community remote sensing approach

POIs-based public preferences mapping on imbalanced supply-demand of recreation services can support sustainable coastal beach management

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