Broadly engaging with tranquillity in protected landscapes: A matter of perspective identified in GIS

Hewlett, Denise; Harding, Lisa; Munro, Tom; Terradillos, Ainara; Wilkinson, Keith

doi:10.1016/j.landurbplan.2016.11.002

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“…Moving on to the direction of future research, in this paper the topic of residents' happiness and QOL need to be associated with the topic of tranquillity. Hewlett et al [87], taking the example Dorset Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) in Southern England, an area close to Hampshire (Winchester), are to some extend claiming that residents' QOL is related to tranquillity and that concept is defined by locals, as the absence of noise, crowding, litter, traffic, pollution; and human activity and the presence of natural environment. This is further supported by Van Niekerk [21].…”

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Events and Tourism Development within a Local Community: The Case of Winchester (UK)

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Tourism as an industry has many kinds of impacts on destinations and their communities. The presence of tourism could create the conditions for an economic development but in the same way produce negative effect (crowding out) and externalities (the Janus-face character). Between the different actors inside the tourist destination, there are the local community which could endure the pressure of tourism. In some cases, this pressure reduces the wellbeing of the residents. The present research paper focuses on how activities like events and tourism impact on community well-being. Winchester (England), a Special Interest Tourism and Event (SITE), is used as a case study. The data are collected using an on-line interview and they are elaborated using multivariate techniques and ordinal regression analysis. The results of the study reveal a close relation between the level of happiness of the local residents and their perception of the tourism industry and event development. Local residents in Winchester are perceiving the tourism industry and events rather positively as they believe it supports their culture and the local economy and job in particular. Our first overall conclusion is that there is a relationship between the residents’ happiness and tourism/event perception. Moreover, our findings support what claimed by several scholars that tourism specialisation improves the residents quality of life (QOL). The present study has not shown the direction of the influence but according to previous research it is the level of happiness of the local residents that determines their perception of the tourism industry and event development and not the other way around. The second finding of the study reveals that SITE destinations have a high potential in terms of contributing to the local residents’ happiness and subsequently visitors. Our third and final conclusion is that, when the benefits of tourism and events are higher than the cost, local residents and are likely to be supportive of the activity.

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Events and Tourism Development within a Local Community: The Case of Winchester (UK)

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“…Ward Thompson, et al [40], have concluded that "feeling at peace", access to "fresh air", and having contact with "natural features" were some of the top space qualities explaining visits to woodlands, whereas "meeting friends" was not at the top of the list for woodland walkers. Hewlett et al [41], have also confirmed that affordances for tranquillity were associated with "natural environments", "large open spaces", and the "presence of few people". This seems to indicate that wider and more natural outdoor spaces are attractive for other functions besides social interaction, and they seem to be effective tools for the health and wellbeing needs of citizens, namely the ones connected with mental health and stress relief [42,43], but less so for social interaction affordances.…”

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Friendly Communities and Outdoor Spaces in Contexts of Urban Population Decline

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Aspinall

2020

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Urban population decline has been extensively described as a triggering factor for community segregation and fragmentation, as well as for land use vacancy and house/flat vacancies, resulting in rising interest in strategies of green infrastructure expansion aimed at citizens’ wellbeing and urban ecosystems. However, city-scaled green infrastructures can be formed by different typologies of outdoor spaces, providing diverse social affordances that can impact community cohesion and resilience differently. This study focuses on the relationship between preferences for particular outdoor space typologies and for community friendliness, under contexts of urban population decline as a migratory process. In the context of Lisbon, a European capital-city experiencing migration and immigration but also urban population shrinkage in some areas of its metropolitan region, the study used conjoint analysis to test participants’ preference for different attributes of their urban environment. The results showed a significant positive correlation, in the sample living in depopulating neighbourhoods, between preferences for friendlier communities and for outdoor spaces of an enclosed and protected character (r = 0.34), compared with no significant correlation in the studied non-depopulating neighbourhoods. These results do not deny the importance of public parks of wide dimensions as a strategy for shrinking cities’ green infrastructures but suggest that urban citizens living in depopulating neighbourhoods have a higher awareness of the importance of small-scale, enclosed outdoor/green spaces to give a stronger sense of social connectedness. This study contributes to the general literature on urban shrinkage by showing that these sensitive conditions can potentially change behaviour and use of public spaces in urban contexts.

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“…Existing models to predict tranquil areas are based on criteria such as distance from infrastructure and naturalness of land cover, which are mapped in a GIS, with criteria weighting based on public consultations (Hewlett et al 2017;Jackson et al 2008;MacFarlane et al 2004). Resulting maps show potential for tranquillity, which may not be where most people go to 'consume' tranquillity.…”

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“…Models typically first explore factors adding to or diminishing tranquillity, through for example interviews, focus groups and literature studies. These factors are then operationalised in a Geographic Information System (GIS) to create continuous models of potential tranquillity (MacFarlane et al 2004;Jackson et al 2008;Hewlett et al 2017). However, empirical work has found large differences between where individuals reported experiencing tranquillity and model predictions (Wartmann and Mackaness 2020).…”

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“…Firstly, tranquillity has been explicitly recognised as a landscape property in policy nationally and locally in the UK (Ministry of Housing Communities and Local Government 2018; South Downs National Park Authority 2017). Secondly, there is also an extensive history of modelling tranquillity in the UK (MacFarlane et al 2004;Jackson et al 2008;Hewlett et al 2017;Chesnokova and Purves 2018;Wartmann et al 2019).…”

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Assessing experienced tranquillity through natural language processing and landscape ecology measures

2021

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Context Identifying tranquil areas is important for landscape planning and policy-making. Research demonstrated discrepancies between modelled potential tranquil areas and where people experience tranquillity based on field surveys. Because surveys are resource-intensive, user-generated text data offers potential for extracting where people experience tranquillity. Objectives We explore and model the relationship between landscape ecological measures and experienced tranquillity extracted from user-generated text descriptions. Methods Georeferenced, user-generated landscape descriptions from Geograph.UK were filtered using keywords related to tranquillity. We stratify resulting tranquil locations according to dominant land cover and quantify the influence of landscape characteristics including diversity and naturalness on explaining the presence of tranquillity. Finally, we apply natural language processing to identify terms linked to tranquillity keywords and compare the similarity of these terms across land cover classes. Results Evaluation of potential keywords yielded six keywords associated with experienced tranquillity, resulting in 15,350 extracted tranquillity descriptions. The two most common land cover classes associated with tranquillity were arable and horticulture, and improved grassland, followed by urban and suburban. In the logistic regression model across all land cover classes, freshwater, elevation and naturalness were positive predictors of tranquillity. Built-up area was a negative predictor. Descriptions of tranquillity were most similar between improved grassland and arable and horticulture, and most dissimilar between arable and horticulture and urban. Conclusions This study highlights the potential of applying natural language processing to extract experienced tranquillity from text, and demonstrates links between landscape ecological measures and tranquillity as a perceived landscape quality.

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Broadly engaging with tranquillity in protected landscapes: A matter of perspective identified in GIS

Cited by 29 publications

References 30 publications

Events and Tourism Development within a Local Community: The Case of Winchester (UK)

Events and Tourism Development within a Local Community: The Case of Winchester (UK)

Friendly Communities and Outdoor Spaces in Contexts of Urban Population Decline

Assessing experienced tranquillity through natural language processing and landscape ecology measures

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