Space‐Time and Integral Measures of Individual Accessibility: A Comparative Analysis Using a Point‐based Framework

Kwan, Mei‐Po

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“…2) Data on outdoor recreation facilities are not available EU-wide, therefore it is assumed that water attractiveness decreases as the distance from the coast increases, being high in the vicinity of water, in a buffer within which recreation facilities (including summer houses) can be found. Such distance in the presented work is set at 2000 m. Coastlines of sea and lakes have been extracted from CLC2000 dataset, and a S-shaped impedance function has been used to calculate attractiveness (Kwan, 1998;Geurs and Ritsema, 2001). The following inverse logistic function (1) has been applied to all coastlines:…”

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Mapping cultural ecosystem services: A framework to assess the potential for outdoor recreation across the EU

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. 2014. Mapping cultural ecosystem services: a framework to assess the potential for outdoor recreation across the EU.Contact CEH NORA team at noraceh@ceh.ac.ukThe NERC and CEH trademarks and logos ('the Trademarks') are registered trademarks of NERC in the UK and other countries, and may not be used without the prior written consent of the Trademark owner. Elsevier Editorial System(tm) for Ecological Indicators Manuscript DraftManuscript Number: Abstract: The publication of the EU Biodiversity Strategy to 2020 requires a substantial effort in terms of operationalizing the ecosystem service concept. Target 2 of the Strategy in fact advocates that ecosystems and their services have to be "maintained and enhanced" in the current decade. This necessitates the development of methods to map and assess ecosystem services at regional and Country level, which is recognized under Action 5 of the strategy.Research on ecosystem services mapping and valuing has boosted in recent years, nevertheless compared to other groups (provisioning, regulating) cultural ecosystem services are not yet fully integrated into operational frameworks. One reason is the transdisciplinarity which is required to address the issue: by their own definition cultural services (which encompass physical, intellectual, spiritual interactions with biota) need to be analysed from multiple perspectives (i.e. ecological, social, behavioural). A second reason is most likely the lack of data for large-scale assessments, being direct surveys a main source of information. Among cultural ecosystem services, assessment of outdoor recreation can be based on a large pool of literature developed mostly in social and medical science, and landscape and ecology studies. This paper presents a methodology to include recreation in the conceptual framework for EU wide ecosystem assessments (Maes et al., 2013), which couples existing approaches for recreation management at Country level with behavioural data derived from surveys and literature, and population distribution analysis. The result is a frame that can be applied to quantify the capacity of outdoor recreation as ecosystem service to citizens in the EU, and describe through Country profiles differences in provision, as input to land planning processes.Dear Editor, we are pleased to submit a contribution to Ecological Indicators. The manuscript is entitled Mapping cultural ecosystem services: the case of outdoor recreation. This is an original contribution to the scientific literature and its submission is supported by all the authors. The paper contains new material which is not considered elsewhere for review or publication.Our paper proposes a methodology to include outdoor recreation in the Mapping and Assessment of Ecosystem Services (MAES) framework (http://ec.europa.eu/environment/nature/knowledge/ecosystem_assessment/pdf/MAESWorkingPaper201 3.pdf), in support of the EU Biodiversity Strategy to 2020. More in general, we believe the paper indicates a viable path to include a cultural ecosystem service in EU...

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Mapping cultural ecosystem services: A framework to assess the potential for outdoor recreation across the EU

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“…However, Kaufmann et al (2004) have offered one of the most thorough descriptions of mobility potential, describing it as a resource composed of interdependent elements of access, competence, and appropriation (Kaufmann et al, 2004). Rooted in Hägerstrand's space-time prisms (Golledge and Stimson, 1997) and other concepts such as potential path space or area (Miller, 1991, Kwan, 1998, "access" represents the set of opportunities and locations from which individuals can choose to participate in an activity. The "competence" element encompasses the physical abilities and skills needed to exploit mobility options, while "appropriation" refers to decision-making processes, evaluation of mobility options, and the adoption of a course of action which will eventually be enacted through agency (Kaufmann et al, 2004).…”

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Considering daily mobility for a more comprehensive understanding of contextual effects on social inequalities in health: A conceptual proposal

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“…These temporal contexts or situations have been examined in, among others, time geography (Dijst, 2009b;Ha« gerstrand, 1970;Kwan, 1998). The basic idea is that each individual and other organisms and material objects follow an uninterrupted path through time and across space, which together form various networks.…”

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Decomposing, Transforming, and Contextualising (e)-Shopping

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Decomposing, transforming, and contextualising (e)-shopping Introduction Although shopping in a store or market place is an activity that has already existed for thousands of years, e-shopping, or the business-to-consumer segment of e-commerce, is a relatively new phenomenon in the world of retailing. Internet-based e-commerce originated around 1995 with the use of the Internet for commercial transactions by Dell, Cisco, and Amazon (Leyshon et al, 2005). Owing to the widespread use of personal computers and (broadband) Internet access, opportunities to buy online at home have expanded enormously in recent years. Brynjolfsson and colleagues (2003;2007) have examined those opportunities from an economic perspective, showing that the Internet offers the possibility to expand enormously the variety of products that can be produced, promoted, and purchased. Owing to limited stock capacity, only the most popular books CDs, DVDs, clothes, electronics, and other products are sold in brick-and-mortar stores. In contrast, owing to lower search costs, the Internet offers the platform for almost any product, however small the demand is. This tail of the supply of products seems to be infinitely long.These technological and economic developments in the supply of online products are particularly embraced by males, the highly educated, those on high income, and young people up to the age of 35 years with positive attitudes towards e-shopping (Farag et al, 2003;2006). These consumers are largely responsible for the sales of online retailers. In the US the total online retail spending increased from $31 billion in 2001 to $100 billion in 2006. The largest shares of online purchases in total retail spending are attained by computer hardware and software (38%); consumer electronics (27%); tickets (17%); and books, videos, and music (15%) (US Census Bureau, 2008a). Although there are considerable variations among countries, the total distance sales (including online and catalogue sales) in Europe are growing steadily (EMOTA, 2008). It is estimated that in the US the turnover will at least double in the next five years (US Census Bureau, 2008b).Although at present consumers make only a modest percentage of their purchases via the web, the developments in the world of e-commerce inspired the well-known expert in e-commerce, Mokhtarian (2004, page 258), to speculate on the future meaning of e-commerce:``Indications are that e-commerce, in some form and at some level, is here to stayöin many contexts it is quite clearly superior to the old way of doing business.'' These developments and expectations leave us with a large set of questions, including: What are the factors that determine the adoption of e-shopping? What are the relationships between the different shopping modes? What is the impact of e-shopping on in-store shopping and travel? What are the implications of e-shopping for the retailing structure? At this stage we are rather short on answers to these and other questions.Our ability to answer these questions is severely hampe...

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Space‐Time and Integral Measures of Individual Accessibility: A Comparative Analysis Using a Point‐based Framework

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Cited by 899 publications

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Mapping cultural ecosystem services: A framework to assess the potential for outdoor recreation across the EU

Mapping cultural ecosystem services: A framework to assess the potential for outdoor recreation across the EU

Considering daily mobility for a more comprehensive understanding of contextual effects on social inequalities in health: A conceptual proposal

Decomposing, Transforming, and Contextualising (e)-Shopping

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