scholarly journals NOISE PROTECTION EFFECT OF FOREST PARK AREAS OF TVER

2021 ◽  
pp. 87-96
Author(s):  
Наталья Борисовна Прокофьева
Keyword(s):  
Urban Forest ◽  
Protection Effect ◽  
Forest Park ◽  
Forest Parks

Статья посвящена рассмотрению роли экранирования акустического загрязнения среды городскими лесопарковыми зонами. The article is dedicated to considering the role of screening acoustic pollution of the environment by urban forest parks.

scholarly journals Residents’ Spatial Preference for Urban Forest Park Route during Physical Activities

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (22) ◽  
pp. 11756
Author(s):  
Mengmeng Cai ◽  
Chuyun Cui ◽  
Lin Lin ◽  
Shuyi Di ◽  
Zheng Zhao ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Urban Forest ◽  
Life Quality ◽  
Cognitive Maps ◽  
Physical Activities ◽  
Urban Residents ◽  
Forest Park ◽  
Additional Information ◽  
Spatial Image ◽  
Spatial Preference ◽  
Forest Parks

Urban parks positively affect the life quality and health of urban residents as well as the environment where they live. When it comes to the design of a future urban forest park, it is necessary to consider the protection of ecological environment, landscape sustainability and practicability. This study explored residents’ spatial preference for urban forest parks based on preference survey data. According to the rating scores obtained for four urban forest park routes during physical activities, this study used cognitive maps and multinomial logit models to figure out the potential influencing factors affecting residents’ spatial preference while they engage in physical activities. The results suggest that forest routes are still the primary choice for urban residents. Although familiarity with the spatial image preference for urban forest parks varied from person to person, residents’ choice of route shows certain commonalities, which was reflected in the sequential cognitive maps obtained from them. In addition, residents’ route preference is influenced by their exercise habits, environmental preference and residential location. There is also a certain correlation between residents’ preference and their characteristics. This study provides additional information for planners, developers, engineers, architects and foresters in building a more suitable environment that is aesthetically appealing and ecologically sound for physical exercising.

scholarly journals THE POTENTIAL OF URBAN FOREST PARK FOR SUSTAINABLE CITY

2012 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Noralizawati Mohamed ◽  
Noriah Othman ◽  
Mohd Hisham Ariffin
Keyword(s):  
Urban Forest ◽  
Future Generation ◽  
Urban Greening ◽  
Sustainable City ◽  
Forest Park ◽  
Research Institution ◽  
Planning Department ◽  
To Come ◽  
Forest Parks ◽  
The Town

The potential of Urban Forest Park and publics' views are clearly pertinent in urban greening and sustainability, yet they are often ignored by certain countries. In line with this, the Town and Country Planning Department and National Landscape Department had taken steps by developing more urban parks and urban forest parks to enhance the quality and sustainability in urban environment. The study was conducted at FRIM(Forest Research Institution of Malaysia) with 375 respondents participated in this study. It is found that the respondents' evaluation on environmental, social and physical contribution at study area is associated with great and intense values for city sustainability. Public opinion and reason to come to the study area should be taken into account by professionals since they are the users and responsible to ensure thesustainability of urban forest for future generation. Even though the overall percentage of survey showed that public gave good expectation, however, the small percentage could be an eye opener as they assumed the existing setting will face big challenge to sustain in the future.

scholarly journals Visitors’ emotional expression in urban forest parks: What can we know about on-line facial images from the Social Networking Services?

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Haoming Guan ◽  
Honxu Wei ◽  
Xingyuan He ◽  
Zhibin Ren ◽  
Xin Chen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Networking ◽  
Facial Expressions ◽  
Urban Forest ◽  
Urban Forests ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Social Networking Services ◽  
Forest Park ◽  
The Social ◽  
Forest Parks ◽  
Facial Images

Urban forests can attract visitors by the function of well-being improvement, which can be evaluated by analyzing the big-data from the social networking services (SNS). In this study, 935 facial images of visitors to nine urban forest parks were screened and downloaded from check-in records in the SNS platform of Sina Micro-Blog at cities of Changchun, Harbin, and Shenyang in Northeast China. Images were recognized for facial expressions by FaceReaderTM to read out eight emotional expressions: neutral, happy, sad, angry, surprised, scared, disgusted, and contempt. The number of images by women was larger than that by men. Compared to images from Changchun, those from Shenyang harbored higher neutral degree, which showed a positive relationship with the distance of forest park from downtown. In Changchun, the angry, surprised, and disgusted degrees decreased with the increase of distance of forest park from downtown, while the happy and disgusted degrees showed the same trend in Shenyang. In forest parks at city center and remote-rural areas, the neutral degree was positively correlated with the angry, surprised and contempt degrees but negatively correlated with the happy and disgusted degrees. In the sub-urban area the correlation of neutral with both surprised and disgusted degrees disappeared. Our study can be referred to by urban planning to evaluate the perceived well-being in urban forests through analyzing facial expressions of images from SNS.

scholarly journals THE POTENTIAL OF URBAN FOREST PARK FOR SUSTAINABLE CITY

2012 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Noralizawati Mohamed ◽  
Noriah Othman ◽  
Mohd Hisham Ariffin
Keyword(s):  
Urban Forest ◽  
Future Generation ◽  
Urban Greening ◽  
Sustainable City ◽  
Forest Park ◽  
Research Institution ◽  
Planning Department ◽  
To Come ◽  
Forest Parks ◽  
The Town

The potential of Urban Forest Park and publics' views are clearly pertinent in urban greening and sustainability, yet they are often ignored by certain countries. In line with this, the Town and Country Planning Department and National Landscape Department had taken steps by developing more urban parks and urban forest parks to enhance the quality and sustainability in urban environment. The study was conducted at FRIM(Forest Research Institution of Malaysia) with 375 respondents participated in this study. It is found that the respondents' evaluation on environmental, social and physical contribution at study area is associated with great and intense values for city sustainability. Public opinion and reason to come to the study area should be taken into account by professionals since they are the users and responsible to ensure thesustainability of urban forest for future generation. Even though the overall percentage of survey showed that public gave good expectation, however, the small percentage could be an eye opener as they assumed the existing setting will face big challenge to sustain in the future.

scholarly journals PROBLEMS OF DEFINING A LEGAL STATUS OF URBAN FORESTS IN RUSSIA

2017 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 190-197
Author(s):  
O. A. Lavrischeva
Keyword(s):  
Russian Federation ◽  
Legal Status ◽  
Urban Forest ◽  
Urban Forests ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Forest Park ◽  
Territorial Planning ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Constitutional Right ◽  
Forest Parks

The paper considers norms of the Russian legislation on urban forests. The main problems of the legal regulation of urban forests within the Russian Federation have been identified and analyzed. The author pays special attention to the absence of a definition of the "urban forests" concept and the criteria for referring forest plantations to urban forests that make it possible to delineate urban forests from other plantations within the settlements, including forest parks. The author points to the fact that there is no criteria for power delineation to protect and use urban forests as well as a clear functional structure of urban forest management at the level of the subjects of the Russian Federation. There is also legal uncertainty about referring forest located in settlements that are not cities to forests. All these gaps in the Russian legislation cause certain difficulties in law enforcement practice. Based on the analysis, the author suggests ways of managing urban forests in the current socio-economic situation in Russia. First of all, it is necessary to introduce a number of clarifications at the legislative level: to regulate the legal regime for using urban forests established for forest park areas in accordance with the requirements of the Russian Federation Code, to establish the norm which will oblige local authorities while preparing and approving the documents concerning territorial planning, to include land plots on which urban forests are located, into recreational areas or zones of specially protected areas. The author believes that these changes in the forest legislation will help to develop and preserve urban forests as a reliable environmental and legal guarantee for the constitutional right of citizens to have a favorable environment.

scholarly journals Facial Expressions of Visitors in Forests along the Urbanization Gradient: What Can We Learn from Selfies on Social Networking Services?

Forests ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (12) ◽  
pp. 1049 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hongxu Wei ◽  
Richard J. Hauer ◽  
Xin Chen ◽  
Xingyuan He
Keyword(s):  
Social Networking ◽  
Facial Expressions ◽  
Urban Forest ◽  
Alternative Methods ◽  
Social Networking Services ◽  
Forest Park ◽  
Friedman's Test ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Forest Parks ◽  
Northern City

People’s satisfaction towards the experience in forests is one of most important feedbacks that forest park managers need to meet positive visitors’ experiences. Although the drawbacks of questionnaire methodology are obvious for data collection from self-reported scores at the landscape scale, few alternative methods have been proposed. In this study, nine urban forest parks along the urbanization gradients in three capital cities of Northeast China were targeted to investigate their visitors’ selfies from social networking services (SNS) by assessing facial expressions. A total of 935 photos with location records were obtained from the SNS platform of Sina Micro-Blog in a social hot-event of ‘Golden Week Holidays of National Day of China’ of 2017. Images were recognized by FireFace software to assess scores of neutral, happy, sad, angry, surprised, scared, disgusted, and contempt expressions. Data were ranked in descending order and analyzed by Friedman’s test, correlation analysis, and Poisson regression. Visitors in downtown-forests showed fewer negative expressions at the most northern city than at the southern most one. The negative expressions tended to be alleviated with the increasing distance of forest parks from downtown. However, when the distance reached over 10 km no geographical effect was found. Female visitors showed positive emotional expressions to urban forests while male visitors showed no response. In conclusion, using data from SNS, this study found an experience in forest park less than 10 km from the downtown of a northern city resulted in female visitors showing the most positive expressions.

scholarly journals Visitors’ emotional expression in urban forest parks: What can we know about on-line facial images from the Social Networking Services?

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Haoming Guan ◽  
Honxu Wei ◽  
Xingyuan He ◽  
Zhibin Ren ◽  
Xin Chen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Networking ◽  
Facial Expressions ◽  
Urban Forest ◽  
Urban Forests ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Social Networking Services ◽  
Forest Park ◽  
The Social ◽  
Forest Parks ◽  
Facial Images

Urban forests can attract visitors by the function of well-being improvement, which can be evaluated by analyzing the big-data from the social networking services (SNS). In this study, 935 facial images of visitors to nine urban forest parks were screened and downloaded from check-in records in the SNS platform of Sina Micro-Blog at cities of Changchun, Harbin, and Shenyang in Northeast China. Images were recognized for facial expressions by FaceReaderTM to read out eight emotional expressions: neutral, happy, sad, angry, surprised, scared, disgusted, and contempt. The number of images by women was larger than that by men. Compared to images from Changchun, those from Shenyang harbored higher neutral degree, which showed a positive relationship with the distance of forest park from downtown. In Changchun, the angry, surprised, and disgusted degrees decreased with the increase of distance of forest park from downtown, while the happy and disgusted degrees showed the same trend in Shenyang. In forest parks at city center and remote-rural areas, the neutral degree was positively correlated with the angry, surprised and contempt degrees but negatively correlated with the happy and disgusted degrees. In the sub-urban area the correlation of neutral with both surprised and disgusted degrees disappeared. Our study can be referred to by urban planning to evaluate the perceived well-being in urban forests through analyzing facial expressions of images from SNS.

scholarly journals Study on landscape quality evaluation of Urban Forest Park: a case from China

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tao Sun ◽  
Xiuyan Han ◽  
Tianyi Cao
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Pollution ◽  
Quality Assessment ◽  
Quality Evaluation ◽  
Urban Forest ◽  
National Forest ◽  
Forest Park ◽  
Spatial Niche ◽  
Landscape Quality ◽  
Forest Parks

Abstract Background: Nanjing Zijinshan National Forest Park is a 5A level scenic spot approved by the Chinese government and a world-famous tourist attraction. Due to the decrease of forest coverage and the environmental pollution caused by the large scale of tourism, the requirements of landscape quality evaluation of urban forest parks are put forward. Results: In order to explore assessment methods of landscape quality (LQ) of Urban Forest Park, based on the literature review and current situation analysis, this paper selected 26 assessment indexes of five categories to construct the index system of comprehensive landscape quality assessment of urban forest parks. In view of requirements of landscape quality assessment of urban forest parks, niche suitability model (NSM) was introduced. On the basis of analysis and improvement, spatial niche suitability model (SNSM) was constructed combining absolute niche suitability model and relative niche suitability model by using weighted average method. Then, the application test of SNSM was carried out taking Nanjing Zijinshan National Forest Park as the research target. Conclusions: The assessment results show that the landscape quality of Nanjing Zijinshan National Forest Park showed a slow upward trend from 2000 to 2018, and was at the lower middle level in 5A scenic area; at the same time, due to buildings increasing and environmental pollution, forest landscape quality showed a slow downward trend. The assessment results of spatial niche suitability model are in line with the actual situation of landscape quality of Nanjing Zijinshan National Forest Park, and provide an effective quantitative analysis method for urban forest parks to strengthen landscape quality management and prevent landscape quality risks. Keywords: Landscape quality; urban forest park；spatial niche suitability model; comprehensive assessment；Nanjing Zijinshan National Forest Park

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