How can residents’ experiences inform planning of urban green infrastructure? Case Finland

Faehnle, Maija; Bäcklund, Pia; Tyrväinen, Liisa; Niemelä, Jari; Yli‐Pelkonen, Vesa

doi:10.1016/j.landurbplan.2014.07.012

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“…Despite GI having many merits, the public lacks the motivation to participate in the implementation of GI, and GI implementation sometimes faces many obstacles in practice [20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27]. According to an NRC study [28], there are three major barriers to urban storm water-related GI: institutional, technological, and perceptual.…”

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Residents’ Willingness to Participate in Green Infrastructure: Spatial Differences and Influence Factors in Shanghai, China

Wang

et al. 2019

Sustainability

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Green infrastructure (GI) plays a fundamental role in achieving urban pluvial flood management, mitigating urban heat island effect, and improving living suitability. Residents’ participation is the main driving force of GI implementation. Based on semi-structured interviews, GIS spatial analysis, and multiple regression, we investigated residents’ willingness to participate in the implementation of GI in public and private space and identified the influence factors in Shanghai, China. The results show that, compared with private space, residents prefer to implement GI in public space, where they have different preferences of GI measures. On urban scale, residents’ willingness to participate in the implementation of GI in private space is characterized as “high in the inner city, low in the suburban areas”, while the spatial difference is insignificant for public space. In addition, the factors affecting residents’ willingness to participate in the implementation of GI are different in private and public space. The deterministic factors of GI participation are gender, education level, and floor for private space, while only include building age for public space, in addition to the common factors of free time, cognition of GI, perception of pluvial flood risk, supportive factors, and environment-improving factors that can influence both private and public space GI participation. Our analysis therefore provides valuable information for policymakers concerning nature-based solutions to climate change adaptation and urban sustainability.

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Residents’ Willingness to Participate in Green Infrastructure: Spatial Differences and Influence Factors in Shanghai, China

Wang

et al. 2019

Sustainability

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“…The analysis was performed using NVivo, a computer software package produced by QSR International, 1 designed specifically for qualitative data analysis (see, for example, Bazeley and Jackson, 2013). In recent urban planning related research (more particularly in collaborative planning--see, for example, Faehnle and Tyrväinen, 2013) it has been used to analyse responses to interviews, debates in stakeholder meetings, or evaluations of new polices in various fields as diverse as climate change (Measham et al, 2011), public health (Allender et al, 2009), planning of urban green infrastructure (Faehnle et al, 2014) or transport and mobility (Wridt, 2010).…”

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Re‐Thinking Territorial Cohesion in the European Planning Context

Marques

Saraiva

Santinha

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Int J Urban Regional Res

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The socio‐economic dimensions of cohesion have long been considered an integral part of Europeanization. However, recently a third dimension has been added to the Europe 2020 cohesion policy debate: territorial cohesion. Consequently this term is as yet undeveloped, resulting in a lack of consensus on how to define and interpret it. Such ambiguity represents a theoretical and empirical challenge to regional actors needing to respond to European Union (EU) directives while operationalizing the concept within their national and/or regional agendas. This article uses Portugal as a case study to examine how the concept of territorial cohesion is being interpreted and transposed from EU‐based to territorial‐based instruments and policy documents. First, we conducted a qualitative content analysis (QCA) of a selection of European and regional publications to compare their intrinsic discourses. This was followed by around 60 structured qualitative interviews, conducted with leading actors who had been instrumental in writing or implementing regional policy documents. On the basis of this dual analysis we conclude that, as a whole, the writers of the Portuguese strategic documents successfully transposed this concept, although perceptible differences exist between regions, as local actors have selectively redefined it to better suit their strategic priorities. These differences are debated with the aim of contributing to the design of effective public policies that facilitate inclusion, cohesion and Europeanization.

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“…Urbanization usually leads to densification of human populations, causing huge losses in urban green ecosystems. However, urban green ecosystems increase biodiversity, improve air quality, reduce noise levels, and contribute to public health [1][2][3]. Land-use planning for urban areas, hence needs a comprehensive socio-ecological understanding to balance the competing functions of land-use [4].…”

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Cultural Ecosystem Services Provided by Urban Green Change along an Urban-Periurban Gradient

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Urbanization by densification is globally increasing and endangers maintenance of urban green and associated social-ecological systems. Cultural ecosystem services play a crucial role in human well-being, especially in urban areas. We analyzed perceived importance of cultural ecosystem services provided by green space in Berlin along an urban-periurban gradient. Based on extensive pretests, we designed a standardized questionnaire and conducted 558 face-to-face interviews. B using multiple regressions and principal component analysis, we show that perceived importance of cultural ecosystem services and patterns of urban green use are affected by an urbanization gradient and associated changes in population density. Important cultural ecosystem services decreases in urban core areas with higher population density, whereas people in periurban areas with more available green spaces exhibit a greater valuation of nature. In contrast, social relations and cultural diversity had the highest importance in the urban core, while cultural heritage, education, natural awareness, recreation, and aesthetical appreciation were higher valued in the less populated periurban areas, suggesting two bundles of cultural ecosystem services.

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How can residents’ experiences inform planning of urban green infrastructure? Case Finland

Cited by 101 publications

References 60 publications

Residents’ Willingness to Participate in Green Infrastructure: Spatial Differences and Influence Factors in Shanghai, China

Residents’ Willingness to Participate in Green Infrastructure: Spatial Differences and Influence Factors in Shanghai, China

Re‐Thinking Territorial Cohesion in the European Planning Context

Cultural Ecosystem Services Provided by Urban Green Change along an Urban-Periurban Gradient

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