Geography of disservices in urban forests: public participation mapping for closing the loop

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

doi:10.1080/26395916.2021.2021289

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“…Respondents are spontaneous associating peri-urban forests with oxygen, health, relaxation, recreation or bird watching, similar associations being found by previous studies that showed that most frequently associations with the peri-urban forests are related to health, wellbeing and a good living, tourism, along with nature-centered experiences such as bird watching (Bjarstig & Stens 2018, Grima et al 2020, Beckmann-Wübbelt et al 2021, Baumeister et al 2022.…”

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Gender inequalities in Transylvania's largest peri-urban forest usage

Oprica¹,

Tudose²,

Davidescu³

et al. 2022

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Urban green spaces (public gardens, parks, urban and peri-urban forests) offer multiple-use opportunities and spaces for recreational activities and played a key role in supporting mental and physical health of dwellers during covid-19 pandemic, being ones of few places where outdoor and social activities where allowed. This study was conducted in Brașov city (also known as Kronstadt, by its German name), the second largest metropolitan area of Romania and surrounded by a significant area of peri-urban forests in Transylvania. Brașov city own just 5.62 sqm of urban green space/inhabitant, one of the lowest in the country, so the presence of a large peri-urban forest area become very valuable for locals and tourists visiting the area. Due to its importance and because understanding visitors' expectations and perceptions is a key element to support decision-makers and ensure proper management of these forests, the Brașov’s forests administrator (Kronstadt Local Public Forest District – RPLPK) decided to investigate how dwellers generally interact with the peri-urban forests and to identify opportunities for improving the capacity of forests in providing social and recreational services. Data were collected through the administration of CAWI (computer assisted web interview) to 314 respondents at beginning of 2021, at exactly one year distance after the pandemic lockdown was imposed all around the country. Analyzing the participants responses, a surprising fact become evident: the use of peri-urban forest is not gender equal, women being less able than men to access these green natural spaces and, therefore, to uptake the benefits provided by the peri-urban forests.

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Gender inequalities in Transylvania's largest peri-urban forest usage

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Tudose²,

Davidescu³

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“…Si bien la condición antrópica es evidente, razón por la cual también se le asignaron valoraciones negativas en el mapa anterior (LVN), según los hallazgos resulta un punto donde coinciden los dos tipos de valoración, sobresale en este caso la referencia cultural al tratarse de un sitio icónico y turístico. En general en los tramos fluviales correspondientes a las áreas más densamente urbanizadas, encontramos zonas de confluencia de valores negativos como positivos, esto podría deberse en parte a que se trata de lugares céntricos, emblemáticos y patrimoniales, que además corresponde a la zona de mayor densidad urbana, donde el paisaje fluvial es más visible y accesible, probablemente donde la comunidad siente apego y familiaridad, y a la vez es donde convergen varias actividades; estos resultados son coherentes con estudios similares, donde tambien se presentan puntos donde convergen dintintos valores sociales, (Baumeister, Gerstenberg, Plieninger, & Schraml, 2022;Plieninger, Dijks, Oteros-Rozas, & Bieling, 2013a;Rodríguez-Morales et al, 2020).…”

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Paisaje fluvial degradado: una mirada desde el valor social: Ríos Urbanos de la ciudad de Loja - Ecuador

Alvarado-Arias

2022

XIV Seminario Internacional De Investigación en Urbanismo, Madrid-Curitiba, Junio 2022

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Urban rivers have become emerging territories due to the aggressive and polluting practices to which they are subjected, generating multiple impacts and risk scenarios. In this sense, paying attention to the voice of the local community is a category of analysis rarely used in decision-making, but it provides local knowledge for the development of more participatory and territorial solutions. Therefore, the study emphasizes integrating the local perspective, the preferences of the community and the places of value. Methodologically, the work is resolved from an ethnographic approach with observation visits, photographs and the dissemination of a virtual geo-form; These data were processed by a Participatory GIS, for the development of social cartographies. The results show the distribution of positive and negative value zones applied to the Zamora and Malacatos urban rivers in the city of Loja - Ecuador, together with the viability of the social and methodological approach as a planning tool. Keywords: river landscape, social value, PPGIS, ecosystem services Los ríos urbanos se han convertido en territorios emergentes debido a las prácticas agresivas y contaminantes a las que se encuentran sometidos, generando múltiples impactos y escenarios de riesgo. En este sentido, prestar atención a la voz de la comunidad local resulta una categoría de análisis poco utilizada en la toma de decisiones, pero capaz de aportar conocimiento local hacia el desarrollo de soluciones más participativas y con base en el lugar. Por lo que el estudio pone el acento en integrar la perspectiva local, las preferencias de la comunidad y los lugares de valor. Metodológicamente, el trabajo se resuelve desde una aproximación etnográfica con visitas de observación, fotografías y la difusión de geo-formulario virtual, datos se procesaron con un SIG Participativo para el desarrollo de cartografías sociales. Los resultados muestran la distribución de las zonas de valor positivo y negativo aplicadas a los ríos urbanos Zamora y Malacatos en la ciudad de Loja – Ecuador, junto a la viabilidad del enfoque social y mapeo participativo como herramientas de planificación. Palabras clave: paisaje fluvial, valoración social, PPGIS, ríos urbanos

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“…Therefore, landscape values can be both positive and negative (García-Nieto et al, 2015;Milcu et al, 2013;Plieninger et al, 2013), although the latter is rarely considered in academic studies (Baumeister et al, 2022).…”

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Evaluation and mapping of the social values for ecosystem services in the urban river landscape. Case study: Zamora and Malacatos rivers in Loja - Ecuador

Alvarado-Arias

Cabrera-Torres

Moya-Almeida

2022

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Context: The progressive degradation of urban rivers has serious socio-ecological impacts, compromising the provision of ecosystem services (ES), thus affecting the quality of life of the inhabitants, however, few are integrated into the social perspective together with the diagnosis of the immaterial and non-monetary benefits as complementary knowledge to traditional approaches. Objective This work sought to add complexity to the diagnosis of the ES, through the identification and mapping of the positive and negative landscape preferences of the local community concerning the urban fluvial landscape of the Zamora and Malacatos rivers in the urban-periurban environment of the city of Loja in Ecuador. Methods This work is resolved with the dissemination of a virtual geo-form, processed with the SolVES model, a participatory mapping tool (PPGIS) that integrates social and biophysical variables. Results The value points obtained revealed different spatial patterns for each social value group. The positives exhibited more dispersed patterns, clustering in peripheral areas. The negatives were concentrated in the centre of the city. Of the ten social values studied, the most relevant were: Learning, Aesthetic, Therapeutic and Disgust, Poor and Inaccessible Infrastructure, and Flood Threat. The environmental variable with the greatest contribution was the Horizontal Distance to Green Areas. Conclusions The results help to identify possible places of conflict as well as attractive locations based on place-based knowledge, which enables a better understanding of the value of the benefits of urban rivers, further, it stimulates the inclusion of the local community in the development of more participatory management and governance and sensitive to the landscape.

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Geography of disservices in urban forests: public participation mapping for closing the loop

Cited by 13 publications

References 108 publications

Gender inequalities in Transylvania's largest peri-urban forest usage

Gender inequalities in Transylvania's largest peri-urban forest usage

Paisaje fluvial degradado: una mirada desde el valor social: Ríos Urbanos de la ciudad de Loja - Ecuador

Evaluation and mapping of the social values for ecosystem services in the urban river landscape. Case study: Zamora and Malacatos rivers in Loja - Ecuador

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