A Review on the Cultural Ecosystem Services Provision of Urban Green Spaces: Perception, Use and Health Benefits

Vidal, Diogo Guedes; Dias, Ricardo Cunha; Oliveira, Gisela; Dinis, Maria Alzira Pimenta; Filho, Walter Leal; Fernandes, Cláudia Oliveira; Barros, Nelson; Maia, Rui Leandro

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-86304-3_18

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“…Although some respondents assigned negative values to dams and reservoirs in the TMNP, this built infrastructure scored a combined cultural ES total almost equal to that of the natural (flowing) water features. They are rated highly as both aesthetic and recreational areas, making frequent participation in outdoor activities and other health and well-being benefits possible [27,28,51,86]. Many of these dams and reservoirs are easily accessible by well-used trails and paths, and are popular swimming sites, supporting the literature on the critical role of infrastructural requirements necessary to access ESs in urban environments [100,101].…”

Section: Linking Cultural Services To the Landscape Features 421 Stat...mentioning

confidence: 74%

“…Additionally, newspaper articles written by the study researchers were published in two free Cape Town community papers containing contact details for further participation. This study assessed the perceptions of ESs from formal and informal user groups, as these groups may appreciate cultural services in the TMNP differently [85,86].…”

Section: Data Gathering and Analysesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Uncertainty and lack of familiarity with the ESs under valuation or the terminology used raises concerns about the factors that influence an individual's expressed preferences. Assigned values should incorporate a person's perception of the service, their held values and associated preferences, and the context of the valuation [86,[93][94][95]. Another possibility for why these three categories did not achieve the same scores as the recreation and aesthetics and existence categories could be due to the respondent sample.…”

Section: Water As a Cultural Ecosystem Servicementioning

confidence: 99%

“…In this study, spiritual and religious values may not have been adequately captured as respondents may not have articulated these ESs in the survey or mapping exercises. A further option could have been the understanding of the concept of spiritual and religious ESs, a possible shortcoming in the design of the questionnaire or the perceptions and understanding of those sampled [38,86,94].…”

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confidence: 99%

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Relational Values of Cultural Ecosystem Services in an Urban Conservation Area: The Case of Table Mountain National Park, South Africa

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O’Farrell

2022

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This paper assesses how residents of a developing city in the Global South, recognize and value the multiple diverse cultural ecosystem services associated with freshwater ecosystems, as provided by different landscape features originating in an urban protected area. This objective was achieved by establishing who benefits from freshwater ecosystem services, uncovering the spatial and temporal relationships these beneficiaries have with landscape features, and determining the relational nature of ecosystem service values, benefits and trade-offs as experienced by the different users. Recreation, aesthetic and existence services were valued highest by respondents. People who live closer to the park use, and benefit from, the park’s freshwater ecosystems more frequently than those living further away. Park visitors want ease of access in terms of distance to specific freshwater ecosystems, and then once there, they want a diversity of activity options, such as recreation opportunities, as well as places to reflect and meditate. This study of cultural ecosystem services improves our understanding of social-ecological systems in urban areas by exploring the relationships between park and people which can guide management to ensure equitable and sustainable ecosystem service provision to all city residents.

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“…Social class, ethnicity, skin color, racial and gender identity are other important variables to be considered, which leads us to an analysis of how these open and green spaces can constitute a microcosm of society power relations. Indeed, there is some evidence that different social and ethnic groups value different characteristics of UGS and also use the space differently (Loukaitou-Sideris and Sideris, 2010 ; Özgüner, 2011 ; Vidal et al, 2022 ).…”

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Children's Green Infrastructure: Children and Their Rights to Nature and the City

Vidal

Seixas

2022

Front. Sociol.

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The development of green spaces in cities has corresponded to a need to deal with a series of socio-environmental and health problems felt in urban spaces. However, these are often fragmented or somewhat disconnected interventions that leave out vulnerable and subaltern groups like children, being also commonly based on strictly formatted designs, with more urban furniture than natural elements. In view of the need to make urban spaces healthier, safer, more resilient, and at the same time more child-friendly, in this Conceptual Analysis paper we build from the literature on Urban Green Spaces, Child-Friendly Cities and environments, and Children's Infrastructure to propose the concept of Children Green Infrastructure (CGI), and discuss its application to urban planning, foregrounding the need for fairer, more inclusive and participatory approaches. GGI derives from the Children Infrastructure concept but it puts at the center of the debate the idea of connecting children to nature where they live, learn and play. CGI is based on the assumption that nature should be transversal in urban planning processes, and that it must be perfectly integrated within urban infrastructures, ensuring access to all. Understanding children's needs and integrating their voices in urban planning and design processes are necessary conditions to moving forward to a fairer, more inclusive and truly collective urban project.

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Evaluating the tangible and intangible parameters of cultural heritage: an economic meta-analysis in a global context

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A Review on the Cultural Ecosystem Services Provision of Urban Green Spaces: Perception, Use and Health Benefits

Cited by 8 publications

References 89 publications

Relational Values of Cultural Ecosystem Services in an Urban Conservation Area: The Case of Table Mountain National Park, South Africa

Relational Values of Cultural Ecosystem Services in an Urban Conservation Area: The Case of Table Mountain National Park, South Africa

Children's Green Infrastructure: Children and Their Rights to Nature and the City

Evaluating the tangible and intangible parameters of cultural heritage: an economic meta-analysis in a global context

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