RECREATIONAL USE OF URBAN FORESTS AND AWARENESS OF VISITORS: THE CASE OF THE CITY OF ORDU - YOROZ AND ASARKAYA URBAN FORESTS

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 803-810
Author(s):  
Sevim Inanç ◽  
◽  
Inci Zeynep Aydın
Keyword(s):  
Urban Forests ◽  
The City ◽  
Recreational Use

scholarly journals Spatio-Temporal Changes of Urban Forests and Planning Evolution in a Highly Dynamical Urban Area: The Case Study of Wrocław, Poland

Forests ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Justyna Jaworek-Jakubska ◽  
Maciej Filipiak ◽  
Adam Michalski ◽  
Anna Napierała-Filipiak
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Urban Forest ◽  
Urban Forests ◽  
Spatial Dimension ◽  
Temporal Changes ◽  
City Centre ◽  
Socialist Economy ◽  
Urban Green Spaces ◽  
Spatio Temporal ◽  
The City

Knowledge about urban forests in Poland is still limited, as it is primarily based on aggregate, formal data relating to the general area, ignoring the spatial dimension and informal green areas. This article describes and analyses spatio-temporal changes in the actual urban forest resources in Wrocław in 1944–2017, which covers the first period of the city’s rebuilding after its destruction during World War II and its development during the nationalised, centrally-planned socialist economy, as well as the second period of intensive and only partly controlled growth under conditions of market economy. The study is based on current and historical orthophotomaps, which were confronted with cartographic data, as well as planning documents. We found that between 1944 and 2017, the percentage contribution of informal woodlands increased tenfold (from 0.5 to 4.9% of the present total area of the city). The area occupied by such forests has grown particularly during the most recent years of the city’s intensive development. However, the forests have been increasingly fragmented. During the first period, new forest areas were also created in the immediate vicinity of the city centre, while during the second one, only in its peripheral sections. The post-war plans regarding the urban green spaces (UGS), including the current plan, are very conservative in nature. On the one hand, this means no interference with the oldest, biggest, and most valuable forest complexes, but on the other hand, insufficient consideration of the intensive built-up area expansion on former agriculture areas. Only to a limited extent did the above-mentioned plans take into account the informal woodlands, which provide an opportunity for strengthening the functional connectivity of landscape.

scholarly journals Ecosytem Services Assessment of Urban Forests of Adama City, Ethiopia

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hingabu Hordofa Koricho ◽  
Ararsa Derese Seboka ◽  
Shaoxian Song
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Sequestration ◽  
Urban Environment ◽  
Carbon Storage ◽  
Azadirachta Indica ◽  
Eucalyptus Globulus ◽  
Carica Papaya ◽  
Urban Forest ◽  
Urban Forests ◽  
Pollution Removal ◽  
The City

Abstract Background: The recent urban challenges due to climate change and urban environment deterioration requires proper planning and inventories of urban forests. In this paper, trees and shrub information were used to estimate leaf area/biomass, carbon storage, carbon sequestration, pollution removal, and volatile organic compound (VOC) emissions, hydrological and functional values of Adama city urban forest. This study was conducted to assess and quantify the ecosystem services of urban forests of Adama city, Central Ethiopia.Results: The result of i-tree Eco model has indicated that the tree species such as Azadirachta indica, Eucalyptus globulus, Carica papaya and Delonix regia sequester high percentage of carbon which is approximately 14.7%, 7.4%, 7.3% and 6.2% of all annually sequestered carbon respectively. Besides, urban forests of the city was estimated to store 116,000 tons of carbon; the most carbons were stored by the species such as Eucalyptus globulus, Azadirachta indica, Carica papaya and Delonix regia that stores approximately 22.1%, 12.3%, 9.5% and 4.2% of all stored carbon respectively. Trees in Adama urban forests were estimated to produce 19.93 thousand tons of oxygen per year. It was estimated that trees and shrubs remove 188.3 thousand tons of air pollution due to O3, CO, NO2, PM2.5 and SO2 per year. In the city, 35 percent of the urban forest's VOC emissions were from Eucalyptus cinerea and Eucalyptus globulus. Besides, the monetary value of Adama urban forest in terms of carbon storage, carbon sequestration, and pollution removal was estimated to 16,588,470 ETB/yr, 118,283 ETB /yr and 12,162,701,080. 9 ETB /yr respectively.Conclusion: Urban forest of Adama city has significant contribution in terms of enhancing woody species diversity and the regulation of urban environment of the study area. From the management and conservation perspectives, urban forests of the study area needs consolidated interventions in terms of tree planting in bare areas and management works. Hence, reliable commitment should be demanded form the key stakeholders such as government, urban foresters and city dwellers.

scholarly journals Hot routes in urban forests: The impact of multiple landscape features on recreational use intensity

2020 ◽  
Vol 203 ◽  
pp. 103888
Author(s):  
Tina Gerstenberg ◽  
Christoph F. Baumeister ◽  
Ulrich Schraml ◽  
Tobias Plieninger
Keyword(s):  
Urban Forests ◽  
Landscape Features ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Recreational Use

Ochrona przyrody w lasach miejskich Poznania

2018 ◽  
Vol XI ◽  
pp. 31-40
Author(s):  
Sandra Wajchman-Świtalska ◽  
Roman Jaszczak
Keyword(s):  
Nature Conservation ◽  
Urban Forests ◽  
Nature Protection ◽  
The City

The aim of this paper is to present the specificity of nature conservation in the area of urban forests on the example of the city of Poznań. The article presents the basic legal acts in force in Poland which relate to the nature conservation. The authors present recommendations concerning the nature protection within the urban forests that are currently in force in Poznań.

scholarly journals Ecological-phytocenotic analysis of the field layer of urban recreational forests (on the example of Kaluga and Obninsk)

2020 ◽  
pp. 68-75
Author(s):  
A. A. Evseeva
Keyword(s):  
Forest Ecosystems ◽  
Urban Forests ◽  
Practical Significance ◽  
Anthropogenic Pressure ◽  
Forest Communities ◽  
Field Layer ◽  
The Stability ◽  
The City ◽  
Forest Habitats ◽  
Observation Period

The aim of this study is to study the diversity of the ecological-coenotic structure of the field layer of the residual urban forests, using as an example the cities Kaluga and Obninsk, which have different approaches to the conservation of residual forest communities in the city. Obninsk practices the conservation of forest zones that have entered the urban environment as recreational objects, while in Kaluga, such forest communities are in a state of interrupted succession and have experienced forestry activities. The objectives of the study are to study the ecological-coenotic and ecological-biological spectra of the field layer of forest ecosystems, and to identify adventive and protected plant species. The study took place in 2014–2015. In the forest communities under study, 30 sites were selected for geobotanical descriptions by the Braun-Blanquet method at different periods of the growing season (in June and August) to fully cover floristic diversity. A total during the observation period were made 240 floristic descriptions. Kaluga city forests turned out to be more susceptible to negative changes occurring in conditions of recreational for-est management. The field layer of the Kaluga forest recreational zones turned out to be more susceptible to negative changes occurring under the influence of anthropogenic pressure, in comparing with the Obninsk forest recreational zones. This is ex-pressed in the proportion of ecological-coenotic and ecological-biological groups, the presence of a greater number of alien species in the studied communities of Kaluga, which indicates greater resistance to the recreational load of the city forests of Obninsk. For example, the share of the group of forest habitats is much higher in Obninsk, where forest species make up more than half of all types of grass layer (54,2%). In the Kaluga forests, the share of forest habitats is lower and amounted to 47,5%. The discovered difference in the stability of the field layer of the Obninsk forests is presumably due to the strategy of their conservation in the urban area in a state of natural succession. The practical significance of the results obtained can be the possibility of using them to determine the degree of negative changes in recreational forests. The direction of further research can be directed at organizing monitoring of the urban forests of Kaluga and Obninsk according to the state of the field layer

scholarly journals Water Scarcity and Urban Forests: Science and Public Policy Lessons from a Decade of Drought in Adelaide, Australia

2013 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Brindal ◽  
Randy Stringer
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Urban Forestry ◽  
South Australia ◽  
Urban Forests ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Institutional Settings ◽  
Forestry Management ◽  
Social Amenities ◽  
The City

Drawing on the experience of greater metropolitan Adelaide, South Australia, Australia, the paper points to the links and gaps between science and public policy. The paper explores urban stormwater management lessons emerging from a ten-year, prolonged dry period that impacted the integrity of urban forests in the City of Adelaide. Among the questions addressed: will stormwater remain, as its historic and institutional settings suggest, a liability or can it become an asset? Who owns stormwater resources and to whom is its management vested? The paper examines these issues with consideration to the dangers of continuing to use urban forestry management practices that are not informed by science. The study concludes that a more integrated approach to urban water management can maintain the integrity of urban forests in ways that potentially enhance social amenities and economic efficiency.

scholarly journals PERCEPTION OF HARM AND BENEFITS OF MARIJUANA AND ITS RELATIONSHIP WITH THE INTENTION OF USE AND CONSUMPTION IN COLOMBIAN ADOLESCENTS

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (spe) ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Fernanda Reyes Rodriguez ◽  
Akwatu Khenti
Keyword(s):  
Public School ◽  
Intention To Use ◽  
Cross Sectional Survey ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Regulatory Changes ◽  
Study Results ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City ◽  
Recreational Use ◽  
Perception Of Harm

ABSTRACT Objective: analyze the relationship between the perception of harm and benefits associated with the use of marijuana and its relation to real consumption, as well as the intention to use it in a context of regulatory changes, in young students, between 15 and 17 years old, of a public school in Bogota Colombia. Method: a quantitative, cross-sectional survey was carried out. 268 students in grade 9th to 11th from a public school in the city of Bogotá, Colombia participated of the study. Results: results reveled that there is an association between the perception of benefits and the consumption of marijuana. In addition, how a low perception of risk is associated with an intention to use in a context of legalization. Conclusion: this is one of the first studies in Colombia which explores the intention to use (at age 18) in a context of regulatory changes, as well as the attitude of young people towards the legalization of marijuana for medicinal and recreational use.

scholarly journals Epiphytic bryophytes in urban forests of Wrocław (SW Poland)

2019 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-83 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ewa Fudali ◽  
Ludwik Żołnierz
Keyword(s):  
Urban Areas ◽  
Urban Forests ◽  
Primeval Forest ◽  
Ecological Requirements ◽  
Forested Areas ◽  
Sw Poland ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
First Time ◽  
The City

Abstract Data documenting the occurrence of epiphytic bryophytes in the urban forests of the Wroclaw city were collected and reported for the first time. Research was carried out in 2015-2016, in forest areas situated within the city administrative boundaries, to find whether some epiphytic species reported from the Wroclaw environs in the 19th century and presently considered to be primeval forest relicts occur in urban forests. The survey was carried out using the established network of 50 study plots randomly scattered within the urban forested areas. In total 42 species (4 liverworts and 38 mosses) were recorded on 467 trees; three of them are primeval forest relicts. In this paper, the host-tree preferences, distribution in the individual forests, relative frequency, abundance and exposure to compass directions of the studied taxa are analysed. Of the species described, only 17 are obligatory epiphytes, while 22 of them are character forest species. However, 82% of the latter were noted on a small number of tree trunks. Two moss taxa, Hypnum cupressiforme and Platygyrium repens, were most frequently found (on 76 and 50% of the trees, respectively). Among the species recorded in the studied area, there are five that have been showing some expansive tendencies in Europe in recent decades. The potential ability of these species to spread in urban areas is discussed in relation to their general ecological requirements.

scholarly journals PEMENUHAN LUASAN HUTAN KOTA SEBAGAI PENCEGAH MASALAH LINGKUNGAN DI SURABAYA

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Martika Dini Syaputri ◽  
Nany Suryawati
Keyword(s):  
Urban Areas ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Open Space ◽  
Central Government ◽  
Urban Forest ◽  
Urban Forests ◽  
Community Needs ◽  
Management And Development ◽  
The Government ◽  
The City

AbstractEnvironmental problems in urban areas are a problem that never stops. That every community needs a healthy life, but this seems difficult to become a reality for urban communities because the population continues to increase every year so that land conversion occurs which results in increased air and water pollution. Therefore, the central government hopes that each region or region can provide RTH 30% of the city area. The purpose of this study is to analyze the enforcement of the City Forest Regulations in Surabaya and to find out the efforts of local governments in fulfilling urban forest land in urban areas. This study uses a normative juridical method. As part of RTH, the development of urban forests in Surabaya is very much needed by the community, therefore cooperation between the government and the community is needed in the management and development of urban forests. Fulfillment of urban forest areas in Surabaya can be done by maximizing the form of urban forest that has been regulated based on the City Forest Regulation, either in the form of channels, groups or scattered.Keywords: city forest; green open space; urbanAbstrakMasalah lingkungan hidup diwilayah perkotaan merupakan masalah yang tak kunjung berakhir. Bahwa setiap masyarakat membutuhkan hidup sehat, namun hal tersebut seolah sulit menjadi kenyataan bagi masyarakat perkotaan yang disebabkan karena jumlah penduduk yang tiap tahun meningkat sehingga terjadi pengalihfungsian lahan yang berakibat pada semakin meningkatnya pencemaran udara maupun pencemaran air. Oleh karena itu, pemerintah pusat mengharapkan bagi setiap wilayah atau daerah menyediakan RTH 30% dari luasan kota. Tujuan dilakukannya penelitian ini adalah untuk menganalisa pemberlakuan Perda Hutan Kota di Surabaya serta mengetahui upaya pemerintah daerah dalam memenuhi lahan hutan kota pada wilayah perkotaan. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode yuridis normatif. Sebagai bagian dari RTH, pengembangan hutan kota di Surabaya sangat dibutuhkan oleh masyarakat oleh karenanya diperlukan kerjasama antara pemerintah dengan masyarakat dalam pengelolaan dan pengembangan hutan kota. Pemenuhan luasan hutan kota di Surabaya dapat dilakukan dengan mamaksimalkan bentuk dari hutan kota yang telah diatur berdasarkan pada Perda Hutan Kota, yakni dapat dengan bentuk jelaur, mengelompok maupun menyebar.

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