Community attachment and resident attitude toward old masonry walls and associated trees in urban Hong Kong

Lo, Acy; Jim, Chi Yung

doi:10.1016/j.cities.2014.09.006

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“…Woodlands are not preserved in urbanized areas, and roadside trees lack effective maintenance. New small green pockets are increasingly segregated from densely inhabited localities which are chronically deficient in open-space provision (Jim, 2002(Jim, , 2004Jim and Chan, 2016;Lo and Jim, 2015). These pockets provide limited relief because of their tiny size, cloistered nature, poor landscape design and meagre vegetation cover.…”

Section: Greenspace Provisionmentioning

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“…Efforts to turn the growing aspirations for greening into innovative solutions are sluggish and piecemeal (Jim, 2002;Jim and Chan, 2016). Many substantive benefits remain unseen or fail to materialize due to the entrenched community mentality and persistent institutional barriers (Jim, 2004;Lo and Jim, 2015;Lo, 2015Lo, , 2016a. Creative efforts are needed to enlist support from all stakeholders, and it would be instrumental to cite the importance of trees for coping with periodic climatic disturbance.…”

Section: Greenspace Provisionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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How climate change perception is reshaping attitudes towards the functional benefits of urban trees and green space: Lessons from Hong Kong

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2017

Urban Forestry & Urban Greening

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How climate change perception is reshaping attitudes towards the functional benefits of urban trees and green space: Lessons from Hong Kong

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Jim

2017

Urban Forestry & Urban Greening

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“…In addition, the questionnaire included a five-item scale to measure residents' attitude toward stonewall trees to examine our suggestion that protest beliefs represent a proenvironmental attitude that strengthens the willingness to pay for tree conservation. The five survey statements are listed in the Appendix, and full details about this composite scale are reported elsewhere (Lo and Jim, 2015). The questionnaire also collected respondents' socioeconomic information, including their education level, sex, age, personal income and length of residence in the current district.…”

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Protest response and willingness to pay for culturally significant urban trees: Implications for Contingent Valuation Method

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2015

Ecological Economics

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The Contingent Valuation Method (CVM) could assist green-space planning, management and appreciation by assigning a monetary value to urban trees. However, the use of CVM is limited by its inherent methodological weaknesses. A critical concern is the existence of a large proportion of survey respondents providing zero willingness-to-pay (WTP) and that these responses are not amenable to economic theory-known as 'protest' responses. Censoring protest responses from further treatment is a common practice, which warrants reconsideration in light of our CVM survey results. The survey involved 800 residents requested to state their WTP for preserving the culturally significant stonewall trees in urban Hong Kong. About 28% of respondents returned a zero WTP. For all respondents the strength of protest beliefs was assessed, and the relationship between protest beliefs and WTP were examined. Our analysis produced contradictory results: some protest items varied negatively with WTP as expected, but other items increased with it. Respondents' stated positive WTP harbored latent protest beliefs which are related to non-economic preference. The findings stand at odds with the assumptions underlying the censoring treatment and raise questions about the validity of WTP estimates. These methodological implications should be taken into account in using CVM.

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“…Meanwhile, tourism is related to the main livelihood of the local community, and tourism development will promote local image communication, cultural folk heritage preservation, and natural ecological protection. This concern and emotional attachment may have further promoted community participation and crisis response, and they verified the positive effects of emotional and functional factors on post-disaster community recovery and tourism crisis response [34,76,84,96].…”

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Two Sides of a Coin: A Crisis Response Perspective on Tourist Community Participation in a Post-Disaster Environment

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This study investigates the attitudes and behavioural intentions of community crisis response and tourism community participation in tourist destinations after the occurrence of a disaster. Further, we built a conceptual model of perceived community participation benefit, community attachment, community resilience, and crisis response and community participation intention and measured it using 556 samples surveyed after the Wenchuan earthquake, China. The results indicated that benefit perception, community attachment, and community resilience have a positive effect on crisis response and community participation. The study further reveals that the local tourism community gradually transforms the negative aspects of terrible disasters into development opportunities. Our case study particularly focuses on the initiative shown by and positive participation of the tourist community in the aforementioned transformation. The study proposes the Attachment, Benefit, and Capability framework of tourist community participation based on the crisis response perspective and expands the boundaries of tourist community participation research. The study has theoretical and practical significance, puts forward relevant countermeasures, and has significant implications.

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Community attachment and resident attitude toward old masonry walls and associated trees in urban Hong Kong

Cited by 30 publications

References 35 publications

How climate change perception is reshaping attitudes towards the functional benefits of urban trees and green space: Lessons from Hong Kong

How climate change perception is reshaping attitudes towards the functional benefits of urban trees and green space: Lessons from Hong Kong

Protest response and willingness to pay for culturally significant urban trees: Implications for Contingent Valuation Method

Two Sides of a Coin: A Crisis Response Perspective on Tourist Community Participation in a Post-Disaster Environment

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