Exploring cultural ecosystem service hotspots: Linking multiple urban forest features with public participation mapping data

Baumeister, Christoph F.; Gerstenberg, Tina; Plieninger, Tobias; Schraml, Ulrich

doi:10.1016/j.ufug.2019.126561

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“…The importance of green spaces for leisure and health, especially in urban and peri-urban areas, has already been reported to be crucial before the COVID-19 pandemic (Barton and Pretty, 2010;Iwata et al, 2016;van den Bosch and Sang, 2017;Baumeister et al, 2020). However, the COVID-19 pandemic made new social norms and rules of conduct necessary (e.g., wearing masks, social distancing).…”

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“The Forest Has Become Our New Living Room” – The Critical Importance of Urban Forests During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Weinbrenner

Breithut

Hebermehl

et al. 2021

Front. For. Glob. Change

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Out of nowhere the COVID-19 pandemic has turned people’s everyday lives upside down. Public places in urban areas were closed. However, leaving the house for recreational and leisure purposes in nature was still allowed in Germany – even during lockdown in March and April of 2020. As a result, urban forests have gained unprecedented importance – not only for recreational activities, but also for maintaining social contacts and coping with psychological stress. With these diverse requirements, many people have appropriated urban forests in new and changed ways. Using the example of the forests around the southern German city of Freiburg, a team of researchers from the Department of Societal Change at the Forest Research Institute Baden-Württemberg (FVA) carried out a mixed-method study to investigate how these appropriation practices are working and to shed some light on the relevance of forests for city residents in these circumstances. In addition to the statistical analysis of an online questionnaire, ethnographic observation data and Instagram posts were analyzed. This methodological triangulation was carried out in order to purposefully combine the strengths of each method while at the same time reducing the intrinsic biases and blind spots. This resulted in a better understanding of the importance of urban forest during this extraordinary period of time. Our results show that urban forests became critically important during the lockdown. Many visitors appropriated the forest with very different motives and for different purposes. For many visitors, the forest provided the same functions during this extraordinary period that public spaces otherwise do. The forest was not only consumed as a natural space, but also constructed by visitors as a social space. We can illustrate how this social meaning was both negotiated and reproduced. To provide an abstraction of our results, we refer to the theory of spatial appropriation as well as to new approaches in sociology of space that conceptualize space as a network of social relations. These results give rise to broader questions for future research projects, recreational forest research, forest and health, and forest planning.

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“The Forest Has Become Our New Living Room” – The Critical Importance of Urban Forests During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Weinbrenner

Breithut

Hebermehl

et al. 2021

Front. For. Glob. Change

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“…In fact, individual citizens' features are associated with the environment and the provided spaces in urban forests [8]. Recent findings indicate that forest managers will be able to better set priorities and monitor the effectiveness of forest management objectives if they comprehend the visitors' views and attitudes [9]. The current study addresses the importance and role of urban forests for its beneficiaries.…”

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Investigating the Citizens’ Views and Perceptions About the Urban Forest Infrastructure and Services of Komotini, Greece

Andrea

Tampakis

Giannakopoulos

et al. 2020

Wseas Transactions on Environment and Development

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Urban and suburban forests are vital for the citizens’ quality of life. Several beneficial functions offorests are provided to the city dwellers if the proper infrastructures and services are efficiently designed orimproved in urban forests. The case study investigates the urban forest of Komotini city in Greece according toits citizens’ views. The assess the existing infrastructures and with the use of hierarchical log-linear analysis thetypology of their visit, the infrastructural status and safety issues are associated to provide a better understandingin the citizens’ attitudes. Also factor analysis is applied, while random sampling was implemented in the research.Major findings reveal that certain policies should be designed for the effectively utilization of the urban forestfor fitness and recreation reasons. Also, the safety conditions ought to be enhanced as most of the citizens areunsatisfied.

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“…Jamatia et al 92 propose a method for tourist destinations' prediction. In urban planning, Baumeister et al 93 rank the urban forest characteristics for cultural ecosystem services supply by typical RF. Forecasting road traffic conditions in done by [ 94 ].…”

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A New Random Forest Algorithm Based on Learning Automata

Savargiv

Masoumi

Keyvanpour

2021

Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience

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The goal of aggregating the base classifiers is to achieve an aggregated classifier that has a higher resolution than individual classifiers. Random forest is one of the types of ensemble learning methods that have been considered more than other ensemble learning methods due to its simple structure, ease of understanding, as well as higher efficiency than similar methods. The ability and efficiency of classical methods are always influenced by the data. The capabilities of independence from the data domain, and the ability to adapt to problem space conditions, are the most challenging issues about the different types of classifiers. In this paper, a method based on learning automata is presented, through which the adaptive capabilities of the problem space, as well as the independence of the data domain, are added to the random forest to increase its efficiency. Using the idea of reinforcement learning in the random forest has made it possible to address issues with data that have a dynamic behaviour. Dynamic behaviour refers to the variability in the behaviour of a data sample in different domains. Therefore, to evaluate the proposed method, and to create an environment with dynamic behaviour, different domains of data have been considered. In the proposed method, the idea is added to the random forest using learning automata. The reason for this choice is the simple structure of the learning automata and the compatibility of the learning automata with the problem space. The evaluation results confirm the improvement of random forest efficiency.

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Exploring cultural ecosystem service hotspots: Linking multiple urban forest features with public participation mapping data

Cited by 66 publications

References 78 publications

“The Forest Has Become Our New Living Room” – The Critical Importance of Urban Forests During the COVID-19 Pandemic

“The Forest Has Become Our New Living Room” – The Critical Importance of Urban Forests During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Investigating the Citizens’ Views and Perceptions About the Urban Forest Infrastructure and Services of Komotini, Greece

A New Random Forest Algorithm Based on Learning Automata

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