Assessing restorative components of small urban parks using conjoint methodology

Nordh, Helena; Alalouch, Chaham; Hartig, Terry

doi:10.1016/j.ufug.2010.12.003

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“…The sample size of 123 had a maximum standard error of 0.045. The acceptable margin of error is 5%; thus a sample size that achieves standard errors lower than 0.05 is acceptable [66]. A total of nine visitors did not respond to the survey (Buddha Jayanti Smarak park = 2; Lodhi garden = 2; Safdarjung's tomb = 4, and Bhuli Bhatiyari park = 1).…”

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Factors Influencing Perceptions and Use of Urban Nature: Surveys of Park Visitors in Delhi

Paul

Nagendra

2017

Land

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Urban green spaces provide important recreational, social and psychological benefits to stressed city residents. This paper aims to understand the importance of parks for visitors. We focus on Delhi, the world's second most populous city, drawing on 123 interviews with park visitors in four prominent city parks. Almost all respondents expressed the need for more green spaces. Visitors valued parks primarily for environmental and psychological/health benefits. They had limited awareness of biodiversity, with one out of three visitors unable to identify tree species and one out of four visitors unable to identify animal species frequenting the park. Most of the daily visitors lived within 0.5 km of these parks, but a small fraction of visitors traveled over 10 km to visit these major parks, despite having smaller neighbourhood parks in their vicinity. This study demonstrates the importance of large, well-maintained, publicly accessible parks in a crowded city. The results can help to better plan and design urban green spaces, responding to the needs and preferences of urban communities. This research contributes to the severely limited information on people's perceptions of and requirements from urban nature in cities of the Global South.

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Section: Methodsmentioning

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Factors Influencing Perceptions and Use of Urban Nature: Surveys of Park Visitors in Delhi

Paul

Nagendra

2017

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“…They provide many benefits such as contributing to ecosystem services and human well-being, and providing important habitats for wildlife (Bolund and Hunhammar 1999, as cited in Davies et al 2009, Fernández-Juricic and Jokimäki 2001, Stagoll et al 2010, Dobbs et al 2011, Millward and Sabir 2011, Nordh et al 2011, Zheng et al 2013), however they are frequently removed by residents for a variety of reasons, with the result that the urban forest is highly dynamic ). This dynamic turnover may be the reason behind the higher proportions of potentially tall trees we found in the 2 -5 m height category, if trees are more likely to be removed when they become tall.…”

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Native and exotic woody vegetation communities in domestic gardens in relation to social and environmental factors

Heezik¹,

Freeman²,

Porter³

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Drivers of garden diversity and structure are complex, reflecting the diversity of social, cultural, and socioeconomic characteristics of the householders who manage their gardens, as well as their predecessors. Here we investigate the woodiness of gardens, and focus on (1) the prevalence of native versus exotic woody plants and (2) the influence of characteristics of garden owners, the gardens, and their proximity to neighborhood green spaces to identify the degree to which these factors explain patterns in native and exotic woody species communities in entire (back and front) gardens in southern temperate New Zealand. We found few consistent patterns in structure in woody species community composition. Outlying gardens were characterized by low species richness and abundance. Thirty-seven species commonly occurred across most gardens: most of these were exotic. Twelve native species were common throughout most gardens. There was significant but weak matching to social and environmental variables: vegetated area, species knowledge, and education explained pattern in native communities, whereas vegetated area, species knowledge, and householder age explained variation in exotic communities. Native trees > 5 m tall occurred in only 58% of gardens. Tall tree density was 10/ha, and 29% of gardens lacked any trees > 5 m. Tree presence was weakly (positively) associated with extent and proximity of neighborhood green space. We suggest that the legacy of previous owners' gardening practices is important to consider when identifying drivers of garden plant community structure.

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“…In recent years, the Stated Preference (SP) method has been proposed for weight allocation. It was originally designed for marketing studies of consumption preference, and it was later introduced to house selection, city planning and policy making in the 1970s (Nordh, Alalouch, & Hartig, 2011;Knight and Menchik, 1974). Currently, the SP method is mostly applied in the field of transportation.…”

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A SP survey-based method for evaluating environmental performance of urban commercial districts: A case study in Beijing

Fang

Gao

2016

Habitat International

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a b s t r a c tEnvironmental assessment plays an important role in directing urban development towards a sustainable way. Unfortunately the majority of currently available environmental assessment tools emphasize either the regional scale or single-building scale, while giving less attention to the meso-scale. This paper presents a methodology of meso-scale environmental performance assessment for urban commercial districts. It extends both the environmental performance assessment and the environmental efficiency assessment by integrating the indicators from three aspects, i.e. the environmental quality, the social and economic value, and the environmental load. Consumer satisfaction is also incorporated. The Stated Preference survey (SP survey) was introduced for the evaluation to get the preference of the consumers, and weights of the indicators were decided via discrete choice model fitting. Six typical commercial districts of Beijing were sampled to test the viability. The results of our research are proved helpful for understanding the environmental situation of urban commercial districts therefore instructive for city planning and management. The proposed method can also be applied to other meso-scale districts such as industrial districts and residential districts in city.

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Assessing restorative components of small urban parks using conjoint methodology

Cited by 201 publications

References 28 publications

Factors Influencing Perceptions and Use of Urban Nature: Surveys of Park Visitors in Delhi

Factors Influencing Perceptions and Use of Urban Nature: Surveys of Park Visitors in Delhi

Native and exotic woody vegetation communities in domestic gardens in relation to social and environmental factors

A SP survey-based method for evaluating environmental performance of urban commercial districts: A case study in Beijing

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