Public satisfaction with urban trees and their management in Australia: The roles of values, beliefs, knowledge, and trust

Kendal, D; Ordóñez, Camilo; Davern, Melanie; Fuller, Richard A.; Hochuli, Dieter F.; Ree, Rodney van der; Livesley, Stephen J.; Threlfall, Caragh G.

doi:10.1016/j.ufug.2022.127623

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“…Given its strong relationship with urban tree abundance and visibility, satisfaction with urban trees may play an important role as a useful measure of the difference between people's expectation of their urban trees and how they cognitively process their actual experience of these trees [13][14][15] . Satisfaction with urban trees can better inform urban tree management decisions 16 , support monitoring of the success of urbantree enhancement efforts and help address existing inequities in the distribution of urban trees in the urban social landscape 8 .…”

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“…While the premise that more trees may lead to greater satisfaction is intuitive, this has not been explicitly examined at multiple spatial scales that people experience these urban trees. Previous work has shown only a weak association between presence of trees and satisfaction with them, based on the correlation between average satisfaction and mean urban tree canopy cover at the city scale 15 .…”

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“…Social measures of economic (e.g., property values 19 ) and sociological conditions (e.g., crime rates 20 ) have been extensively examined in relation to urban tree characteristics 8 , but these measures typically do not capture community perceptions of urban trees, including satisfaction. Few studies have paired community perceptions with the characteristics of urban trees (i.e., abundance, diversity, arrangement, condition) 15 . Recent research has suggested that people's preferences for biodiverse landscapes can be in uenced by how biodiverse these landscapes are 21,22 , and people's preferences for places with or without trees can be in uenced by the absence or presence of trees 23 .…”

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“…To answer these questions, we collected data on people's perceptions through an online panel survey in the City of Toronto, Canada. The survey included questions about people's level of satisfaction with urban trees, which included items such as tree diversity and abundance, and people's level of satisfaction with urban tree management, which included items such as appropriate maintenance and equitable planting 15 . To account for cognitive, social-ecological context, and demographic in uences on these perceptions, we also collected data on people's level of nature relatedness 30 , level of tree knowledge 31 , and various social-ecological context and demographic variables, including age, education, year living in the neighbourhood, and cultural identity (see Methods).…”

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Satisfaction with urban trees associates with tree canopy cover and tree visibility around the home

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Many world cities want to expand the number of urban trees. How this expansion occurs should consider what people expect from trees based on how they experience and perceive these trees. Therefore, we need a better understanding of how people’s perceptions of urban trees may relate to the abundance of urban trees. This research examined whether people’s satisfaction with urban trees and satisfaction with the management of those trees were related to objective measures of greenery such as the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), percent tree canopy cover, and the Viewshed Greenness Visibility Index (VGVI) for trees. We used a demographic and geographically representative survey of 223 residents in Toronto, Canada, and calculated NDVI, canopy cover, and VGVI at three neighborhood sizes. We analyzed the data using generalized linear regression. We found that canopy cover and VGVI had a strong positive association with satisfaction with urban trees. The associations were stronger at larger neighborhood scales. There were no statistically significant associations with NDVI or satisfaction with the management of urban trees.

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“…Moreover, it can be estimated that the benefits of an urban ecosystem can substantially reduce a city's operating costs, e.g., by cooling urban areas using trees [7,11]. The introduction of greenery, trees especially, to the urban environment is generally met with high approval and is a very welcome element of the environment [12,13]. It is currently emphasized that the availability of green areas is deemed as vital as essential services [14].…”

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Environmental Aspects of City Participatory Budgeting in Poland

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2022

IOP Conf. Ser.: Earth Environ. Sci.

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Participatory budgets are an increasingly common form of co-decision of residents about the quality of life and development directions of urban space. In Poland, participatory budgets have been realized for a decade, and projects submitted to these budgets respond to needs such as e.g. leisure infrastructure, environmental conditions, recreation, health, and education. The study aims to analyze the phenomenon of civic participation and the use of participatory budgets as a tool of co-governance in the context of environmental issues and urban development. A desk research analysis of national and foreign literature data was performed, and the existing statistical data on participatory budgets in Poland were analyzed. In addition, the websites of selected cities in Poland were analyzed in the context of implemented projects and citizen’s activity within the framework of participatory budgets. The results indicate that the initial enthusiasm of the citizen’s implementation has decreased, but the COVID-19 pandemic has aroused renewed interest in the topic. The study’s implication is recommendations, e.g.: creating a civic budget database featuring uniform categories or creating Green Civic Budgets in every city.

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Quantifying the importance of urban trees to people and nature through tree removal experiments

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Experimentally manipulating urban tree abundance and structure can help explore the complex and reciprocal interactions among people, biodiversity and the services urban forests provide to humans and wildlife. In this study we take advantage of scheduled urban tree removals to experimentally quantify the benefits that urban trees provide to humans and wildlife. Specifically, we aim to understand how trees affect: (1) bird and mammal abundance and diversity, as well as an ecological process (predation); and (2) people's perception responses, such as the importance that people assign to the trees, wildlife and the site. We designed two independent Before‐after‐control‐impact (BACI) experiments based on two sites where tree removals were occurring (impact sites): an urban park and a residential street, both located in the Greater Melbourne Area, Australia. We selected three control sites for each impact site, or four per experiment. Ecological data were collected through field surveys, and social data on people's perceptions through intercept questionnaires among park and street users. Data were analysed using a GLMMs to determine the combined effect of time (before and after) and treatment (impact and controls). At the urban park, the abundance of nectarivorous birds and possums both declined by 62% following tree removal, while invertebrate predation increased by 82.1%. The level of importance people assigned to the urban park and to the trees at the site decreased after tree removal, and people's attitudes towards tree planting became more positive, meaning more people wanted to plant more trees at the site. None of these changes were observed in the street experiment where fewer and smaller trees were removed, suggesting that effects may be highly specific to context, where factors such as tree volume, diversity and arrangement influence the magnitude of social–ecological effects observed. By demonstrating the social–ecological effect of removing urban trees, we provide evidence that urban trees provide critical habitat to urban wildlife and are perceived as an important aspect of the human experience of urban nature. Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.

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Public satisfaction with urban trees and their management in Australia: The roles of values, beliefs, knowledge, and trust

Cited by 17 publications

References 52 publications

Satisfaction with urban trees associates with tree canopy cover and tree visibility around the home

Satisfaction with urban trees associates with tree canopy cover and tree visibility around the home

Environmental Aspects of City Participatory Budgeting in Poland

Quantifying the importance of urban trees to people and nature through tree removal experiments

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