Does ‘grey’ urban living lead to more ‘green’ holiday nights? A Netherlands Case Study

Sijtsma, Frans; Vries, S. de; Hinsberg, A. van; Diederiks, J.P.M.

doi:10.1016/j.landurbplan.2011.12.021

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“…He concludes that compensation behavior has weaker influence on leisure travel patterns than monetary rebounds and cosmopolitan lifestyles (see next section). Finally, in the Netherlands, Sijtsma et al (2012) found a relationship between recreation opportunities in urban areas and holiday nights spent away.…”

Section: Compensation Hypothesismentioning

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Why do urbanites travel more than do others? A review of associations between urban form and long-distance leisure travel

Czepkiewicz

Heinonen

Ottelin

2018

Environ. Res. Lett.

103

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Negative relationships between urban density and greenhouse gas emissions from daily travel are well established in the literature. However, recent research suggests that higher urban density is associated with higher emissions from long-distance leisure travel, such as car weekend trips and international flights. This article presents the first systematic review of empirical evidence on these associations and discusses potential explanations. A two-step article selection process yielded 27 empirical articles, complemented by one article published during the review process. When international travel is included in the analysis, the results suggest that residents of the largest cities, and particularly those from centrally located and densely built areas, travel more to cover long distances than do others, after controlling for demographic and socioeconomic variables. When only domestic travel is included, residents of larger settlements and areas of higher density engage in less long-distance travel for leisure purposes than those living in smaller settlements and sparsely built areas. The results of the review are indicative and warrant more research. Generalization is currently limited because of the wide variety of travel behavior measures used, consideration of different travel modes and trip purposes, and geographic scope. There is a strong need for replication of the results using consistent methodology, using data from longer and more recent time spans, and expanding to more diverse geographical settings, especially outside Europe. The systematic review is followed by a narrative review of theoretical explanations of the associations. The most common explanations include: rebound effects, the compensation hypothesis, access to transport infrastructure, urban lifestyles, sociopsychological characteristics, and social networks. Socioeconomic variables are controlled in a majority of the reviewed studies, and business travel is excluded from the review, so the concentration of wealth and business in cities may explain the findings only to some extent. Nonetheless, there is not enough empirical evidence on the causal character of the associations and therefore further qualitative and multidisciplinary work is needed. Compact city and urban densification policies are not strongly challenged by current evidence, and most common policy recommendations point to including air travel into carbon taxing or quota schemes.

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Section: Compensation Hypothesismentioning

confidence: 93%

Why do urbanites travel more than do others? A review of associations between urban form and long-distance leisure travel

Czepkiewicz

Heinonen

Ottelin

2018

Environ. Res. Lett.

103

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“…2b demonstrates that Experiential nature largely solves the problem of the lack of urban recreational green space in the Netherlands. This common challenge for many urban areas (Tzoulas et al, 2007; Sijtsma et al, 2012b) can thus be faced squarely; although − as we have seen − at a high cost. However, the type of nature that is created is not the most appreciated at the national scale: the indicator measuring appreciation of nature only slightly increases (de Vries et al, 2013).…”

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confidence: 93%

“…However, model calculations show that approximately 38% of Dutch households (Sijtsma et al, 2012b) experience a shortage of accessible natural areas in the vicinity of their residence. These shortages are expected to increase towards 2040, particularly around large cities (Mnp, 2006).…”

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“…This indicator is built on output derived from the AVANAR recreation model (de Vries et al, 2004), estimating the shortage of recreational green areas. The AVANAR model evaluates the surface of green area available for recreational walking and biking (the most popular recreational activities in the Netherlands (Nbtc-Nipo, 2013)) in our study, relative to the desired amount, which is determined by spatial distribution of population and population density (Sijtsma et al, 2012b). Table 2 provides an overview of all the indicators used in the scenarios and the main sources of the calculations.…”

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Planning nature in urbanized countries. An analysis of monetary and non-monetary impacts of conservation policy scenarios in the Netherlands

Sijtsma

Bilt

Hinsberg

et al. 2017

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Planning and conserving nature areas are challenging tasks in urbanized and intensively used countries like the Netherlands. This paper supports decision making and public policy debate about these tasks in both an empirical and a methodological way. Empirically, we explore policy alternatives by determining the potential consequences of different nature policy scenarios in the Netherlands. Methodologically, we employ a mixed monetary and non-monetary evaluation method known as multi-criteria cost-benefit analysis (MCCBA). We evaluate four new future directions of Dutch nature policy that address four dominant stakeholder demands: biodiversity conservation, the provision of ecosystem services, recreational potential as well as economic gains. To balance compact presentation of evaluation outcomes on the one hand and information richness of results on the other, we distinguish between two impact indicator sets: three “headline” and ten “elaborate” indicators. Using these indicators we discuss the quantitative assessment of the four nature policy scenarios by comparing them to two other scenarios, reflecting the 2010 stand-still baseline situation (2010) as well as a reference policy (Trend). In total, we evaluate six scenarios; four present new directions and two reflect existing or recently (2010) halted practices. Our findings first of all show that even in an urbanized country like the Netherlands, with its intensive competition among land use functions, serious gains in national and international biodiversity are possible. Second, we find that it is doubtful whether stimulating the provision of regulating ecosystem services in a country which applies intensive and profitable agricultural techniques is beneficial. Other countries or areas that are less suitable for intensive agricultural practices may be more logical for this. Finally we demonstrate that increasing urban recreational green space − a common challenge for many urban areas − can only be achieved at relatively high costs, while it does not seem to lead to relatively high scores on nature appreciation. Nature appreciation seems to be served better by wilder nature than by park-like nature.

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“…Dass Natur positive Auswirkungen auf unsere Gesundheit hat, wird nicht nur von Millionen von Menschen durch das eigene Erleben immer wieder bestätigt, sondern ist mittlerweile auch durch entsprechende wissenschaftliche Studien gut belegt [2][3][4]12,13]. Hierzu wird in der Regel ein Maß für die Qualität der Wohnumgebung im Hinblick auf Grünflächen, Parks oder Bäume verwendet, entweder der Prozentsatz solcher Grünflächen (im Englischen spricht man von "green space") am gesamten Wohngebiet bzw.…”

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Does ‘grey’ urban living lead to more ‘green’ holiday nights? A Netherlands Case Study

Cited by 31 publications

References 41 publications

Why do urbanites travel more than do others? A review of associations between urban form and long-distance leisure travel

Why do urbanites travel more than do others? A review of associations between urban form and long-distance leisure travel

Planning nature in urbanized countries. An analysis of monetary and non-monetary impacts of conservation policy scenarios in the Netherlands

Natur – eine Dosis-Findungsstudie

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