A social assessment of urban parkland: Analyzing park use and meaning to inform management and resilience planning

Campbell, Lindsay K.; Svendsen, Erika S.; Sonti, Nancy F.; Johnson, Michelle L.

doi:10.1016/j.envsci.2016.01.014

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“…Leisure entertainment, culture education, and biodiversity are basically estimates, but using the whole region estimation values gives reasonable accuracy. Wetlands can provide many environmental services, so the provision and efficiency of the services have obvious externalities [38][39][40][41]. A limitation is that this research only calculated the use-value in Lakeside Wetland Park, omitting the non-use value.…”

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Ecosystem Services Valuation of Lakeside Wetland Park beside Chaohu Lake in China

Gao

2016

Water

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Abstract:Wetland ecosystems are one of the three great ecosystems on Earth. With a deepening of research on wetland ecosystems, researchers have paid more and more attention to wetland ecosystem services such as flood mitigation, climate control, pollution prevention, soil-erosion prevention, biodiversity maintenance, and bio-productivity protection. This study focuses on a lakeside wetland ecosystem in Hefei, a city in central China, and estimates the value of ecosystem services such as material production, air purification, water conservation, biodiversity, recreation, species conservation, education and scientific research. We adopted the market value method, carbon tax method, afforestation cost method, shadow engineering method and contingent value method (CVM) using questionnaire survey data during the study period. The results show that the total value of the ecosystem services of Lakeside Wetland Park was 144 million CNY in 2015. Among these services, the value of society service is the maximum at 91.73 million CNY, followed by ecological service and material production service (42.23 million CNY and 10.43 billion CNY in 2015 respectively). When considering wetland ecosystems for economic development, other services must be considered in addition to material production to obtain a longer-term economic value. This research reveals that there is scope for more comprehensive and integrated model development, including multiple wetland ecosystem services and appropriate handling of wetland ecosystem management impacts.

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Section: The Influence Of Different Evaluation Methodsmentioning

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Ecosystem Services Valuation of Lakeside Wetland Park beside Chaohu Lake in China

Gao

2016

Water

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“…e Gough (2000) and Blicharska and Mikusinski (2014). f Campbell et al (2016), Dobbs et al (2018), Potgieter (2019), and Shackleton et al (2015). g Potgieter (2019) and Shackleton et al (2015).…”

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A Survey of Multiple Interactions Between Plants and the Urban Environment

Fineschi¹,

Loreto²

2020

Front. For. Glob. Change

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It is well-acknowledged that plants in urban areas provide multiple ecosystem services. They contribute improving ambient quality and mitigating negative impacts of human presence, beautifying the anthropic environment, and promoting place identity and cultural heritage. However, the existence of plants in general, and trees in particular, cannot be considered independent on urban activities and infrastructures. Release of plant volatile compounds is profoundly affected in urban environments, in turn modifying plant relationships with other living organisms, both plants and animals, and affecting air chemistry and quality. Plants also interfere with stone artifacts, cultural and historical heritage. Plant-human coexistence requires precise and adequate managing measures, which have often been ignored in cities' government and planning. Plants and humans (and human infrastructures) are frequently considered as independent from each other and plant requirements are often disregarded, thus causing difficult or erroneous management and/or environmental damage. We review some of the most important ecosystem services provided by plants in urban environment, and also focus on possible negative effects of plants that may become relevant if urban vegetation is improperly managed and unintegrated in proper city planning, both of historical centers and of new towns or suburbs. Keywords: ecosystem services, global change, green area typologies in cities, green urban planning and management, positive (negative) plant-human interactions, urban trees

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“…Public parks and gardens and green streetscapes (public green spaces) serve as sites for interaction with nature in people's daily lives (Pyle 2003, Miller 2006, Campbell et al 2016, Hartig and Kahn 2016. Backyards (private green spaces) also provide spaces for people to experience nature in a manner that is distinct from those experiences in public green space Irvine 2010, Shanahan et al 2014).…”

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Maintaining experiences of nature as a city grows

Sushinsky¹,

Rhodes²,

Shanahan³

et al. 2017

E&S

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ABSTRACT. Experiences of nature contribute to human health and well-being, yet as the world's population continues to concentrate in towns and cities there is mounting concern that these experiences are diminishing. Despite this, little is known about how we can maintain experiences of nature as cities grow. Here, we quantify how people's opportunities to experience nature might change with future urban growth in the city of Brisbane, Australia. We simulated the addition of 84,642 houses under compact and sprawling growth scenarios and modeled changes in people's opportunities to experience nature by estimating changes in backyard size, public green space provision, and bird species richness close to households. We discovered that the form of urban growth could strongly influence people's opportunities to experience nature in a way that is highly nonrandom across the socioeconomic gradient. Under a sprawling pattern of development, with low residential densities and few interstitial green spaces, our models suggest severe declines in access to public green space and bird species richness around people's homes. These declines are predicted to be concentrated in socioeconomically disadvantaged areas of the city. Compact development leads to greater reductions in backyard size, but smaller declines in access to public green space and bird species richness. Our results point to a difficult trade-off; residential infill will maintain larger green spaces and higher overall bird diversity but reduce backyard sizes, impacting people's opportunities to experience nature in a different way. Careful planning is needed to balance the availability of public and private urban green spaces to ensure that the opportunities for people to experience nature are maintained as urbanization continues.

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A social assessment of urban parkland: Analyzing park use and meaning to inform management and resilience planning

Cited by 131 publications

References 58 publications

Ecosystem Services Valuation of Lakeside Wetland Park beside Chaohu Lake in China

Ecosystem Services Valuation of Lakeside Wetland Park beside Chaohu Lake in China

A Survey of Multiple Interactions Between Plants and the Urban Environment

Maintaining experiences of nature as a city grows

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