Assessing the importance of cultural ecosystem services in urban areas of Beijing municipality

Dou, Yuehan; Zhen, Lin; Groot, R.S. de; Du, Binyang; Yu, Xiubo

doi:10.1016/j.ecoser.2017.02.011

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“…The PCA results revealed that the forest bathing in the urban park tended to be associated with more decline of anxieties from social contact especially the love-affair relationship. Similarly, former studies found that forests near the city center tended to be perceived with greater 'non-material values' (Casado-Arzuaga et al, 2013;Dou et al, 2017), such as aesthetic and recreational services (Carvalho-Ribeiro and Lovett, 2011;Erol, 2012). Our results revealed that in response to the forest bathing in the urban park participants tended to perceive more desire to communicate with others including those in the opposite gender.…”

Section: The Geographical Difference Between Urban and Rural Forest Parks On Perceived Anxietysupporting

confidence: 76%

Effect of Short-term Forest Bathing in Urban Parks on Perceived Anxiety of Young-adults: A Pilot Study in Guiyang, Southwest China

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Forest can be taken as a natural therapy to alleviate perceived anxiety of visitors. Given the geographical difference between urban and rural forest environments, little is known about the urban forest therapy effect of anxiety alleviation with reference to the rural forest. In this study, forty-three university students (aged from 19 to 23) were recruited as participants to visit the forest parks at urban and rural areas of Guiyang City on 21 and 23 December 2016. The forest experience was separated by four sceneries. Participants were asked to complete questionnaires by self-evaluating specific anxiety change from 12 questions with scores from 1 to 10 at both entrance and exit of the parks. The Wilcoxon signed-rank test and paired t-test were used to compare the change of anti-anxiety scores during forest bathing and between urban and rural forests, respectively. Results revealed that forest bathing in the urban park can alleviate the anxiety from financial state (P = 0.0028), exam-pass pressure (P = 0.0040) and love-affair relationship (P = 0.0286). Although rural forest bathing can also alleviate the anxiety from financial state (P = 0.0222), meanwhile, it maintained the anxiety about campus life (P < 0.0001). Forest tree richness tended to be higher in the rural forest park than in the urban one, which in contrast decreased the anxiety alleviation from inter-communication in the rural forest park (P = 0.0487). Principle component analysis indicated that participants tended to perceive more decline of anxiety from social contact in the urban forest. In conclusion, university students were recommended to pay a short visit to the urban forest with partners if they felt anxious about personal affairs and felt necessary to talk with others. For general people's visiting, urban forest trees can be controlled in diversity to some extent to look orderly and alleviate perceived anxiety.

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Section: The Geographical Difference Between Urban and Rural Forest Parks On Perceived Anxietysupporting

confidence: 76%

Effect of Short-term Forest Bathing in Urban Parks on Perceived Anxiety of Young-adults: A Pilot Study in Guiyang, Southwest China

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“…For instance, GIS based mapping (e.g. Ives et al, 2017;Zwierzchowska et al, 2018;Ribeiro et al, 2016;Upton et al, 2015), participatory mapping (Brown et al, 2016;Van Berkel et al, 2014;Rall et al, 2018), field observations, and expert-based scoring (Dou et al, 2017;Cooper et al, 2016;Stålhammar et al, 2017). Most of these assessment methods were GIS-based, including GIS tools developed appositely for the purpose.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Ecosystem Services (ES) concepts have obtained dragging on the scientific research agenda and have found its way into research on urban context and environmental. Towns and cities and ecosystem, such as any other complex ecosystem, supply specific kind of ES services to their residents and society (Dou et al, 2017) as well as they are benefited by the surrounding ecosystem services. In urban contexts, various kinds of land use and ecosystems supply different services inclusive noise reduction, gas regulation, micro-climate regulation, water regulation, sewage treatment, recreational, educational and cultural values.…”

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RETRACTED: Mapping Indicators of Cultural Ecosystem Services: Review and Relevance to Urban Context

Abualhagag

Valánszki

2020

Journal of Landscape Ecology

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Over decades human well-being has recognized from ecosystems, not only through material goods but also through nonmaterial assets namely cultural ecosystem services (CES). Regardless of increasing Ecosystem Services (ES) research over the last decade, cultural services assessment still remains neglected and is mainly limited to marketable services such as recreation and ecotourism. Obvious challenges in standardizing definitions and measurement units have brought about numerous difficulties in accounting cultural services and specific related indicators in decision-making processes. In that regard, the current review intends to create a reference list of CES categories and related measurement units with commonly used indicators. To put it another way, we analysis 80 publications to identify the most common CES indicators using in mapping various categories of CES approaches. Results prove that there are various methods can be used in assessing CES categories, whereas we found 57 indicators can be used for that and most of these indicators can be utilized in urban planning context as spatial indicators. Moreover, it is obvious that almost the same indicators can be used in evaluating most CES categories. For instance, in case of recreation and tourism indicators almost 50 % of all collected indicators can be used for mapping it, on the contrary, in case of spiritual and religious values. In conclusion, while there are various mapping methods of CES and different indicators, most of CES categories have relatively ignored by the planner and decision-makers such as education and inspirational values. Therefore, we recommend the use of the collected indicators and relevant measurement units in assessing neglected values in future research.

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“…The diverse ecosystem services provided by urban vegetation can make cities more comfortable places for people to live [6], improve public health [7,8], and have substantial economic values [2]. The services provided by vegetation in an urban area depend on many factors, including the type of plants [9], the way that the vegetation is managed [10], and the characteristics and interests of the resident human population [11]. At the scale of the whole city, the proportional cover of vegetation is a key high-level indicator for understanding the likely ecological quality of an urban area [12][13][14][15].…”

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Global Changes in Urban Vegetation Cover

Richards¹,

Belcher

2019

Remote Sensing

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Urban vegetation provides many ecosystem services that make cities more liveable for people. As the world continues to urbanise, the vegetation cover in urban areas is changing rapidly. Here we use Google Earth Engine to map vegetation cover in all urban areas larger than 15 km 2 in 2000 and 2015, which covered 390,000 km 2 and 490,000 km 2 respectively. In 2015, urban vegetation covered a substantial area, equivalent to the size of Belarus. Proportional vegetation cover was highly variable, and declined in most urban areas between 2000 and 2015. Declines in proportional vegetated cover were particularly common in the Global South. Conversely, proportional vegetation cover increased in some urban areas in eastern North America and parts of Europe. Most urban areas that increased in vegetation cover also increased in size, suggesting that the observed net increases were driven by the capture of rural ecosystems through low-density suburban sprawl. Far fewer urban areas achieved increases in vegetation cover while remaining similar in size, although this trend occurred in some regions with shrinking populations or economies. Maintaining and expanding urban vegetation cover alongside future urbanisation will be critical for the well-being of the five billion people expected to live in urban areas by 2030.

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Assessing the importance of cultural ecosystem services in urban areas of Beijing municipality

Cited by 104 publications

References 24 publications

Effect of Short-term Forest Bathing in Urban Parks on Perceived Anxiety of Young-adults: A Pilot Study in Guiyang, Southwest China

Effect of Short-term Forest Bathing in Urban Parks on Perceived Anxiety of Young-adults: A Pilot Study in Guiyang, Southwest China

RETRACTED: Mapping Indicators of Cultural Ecosystem Services: Review and Relevance to Urban Context

Global Changes in Urban Vegetation Cover

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