scholarly journals Mapping Urban Park Cultural Ecosystem Services: A Comparison of Twitter and Semi-Structured Interview Methods

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (21) ◽  
pp. 6137
Author(s):  
Michelle Johnson ◽  
Lindsay Campbell ◽  
Erika Svendsen ◽  
Heather McMillen
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Demographic Data ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Urban Park ◽  
Cultural Ecosystem Services ◽  
Spiritual Values ◽  
Crowdsourced Data ◽  
Prospect Park

Understanding the benefits received from urban greenspace is critical for planning and decision-making. The benefits of parks can be challenging to measure and evaluate, which calls for the development of novel methods. Crowdsourced data from social media can provide a platform for measuring and understanding social values. However, such methods can have drawbacks, including representation bias, undirected content, and a lack of demographic data. We compare the amount and distribution of park benefits elicited from (1) tweets on Twitter about Prospect Park, Brooklyn, New York (n = 451) with park benefits derived from (2) broad (n = 288) and (3) directed (n = 39) questions on two semi-structured interview protocols for park users within Prospect Park. We applied combined deductive and inductive coding to all three datasets, drawing from the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment’s (MEA) cultural ecosystem services (CES) framework. All three methods elicited an overlapping set of CES, but only the Twitter dataset captured all 10 MEA-defined CES. All methods elicited social relations and recreation as commonly occurring, but only the directed question interview protocol was able to widely elicit spiritual values. We conclude this paper with a discussion of tradeoffs and triangulation opportunities when using Twitter data to measure CES and other urban park benefits.

scholarly journals Defining and spatially modelling cultural ecosystem services using crowdsourced data

2020 ◽  
Vol 43 ◽  
pp. 101091 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ilan Havinga ◽  
Patrick W. Bogaart ◽  
Lars Hein ◽  
Devis Tuia
Keyword(s):  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Cultural Ecosystem Services ◽  
Crowdsourced Data

scholarly journals Calculating Cultural Ecosystem Services as part of Greenspace Management?

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 16-21
Author(s):  
Jocelyn M. Gavitt ◽  
Richard C. Smardon
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Millennium Ecosystem Assessment ◽  
Cultural Ecosystem Services ◽  
Cultural Services ◽  
Ecosystem Assessment ◽  
Upstate New York ◽  
The Us ◽  
Water Based ◽  
Science And Education

Lake related greenspace provides many benefits to residents and visitors, which often get unnoticed. The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment Project (2005) proposed the valuation of ecosystem services, defined as regulatory, provisional, ecosystem support, providing cultural services from natural resources, free of charge. The challenge here is: How can we use cultural ecosystem services derived from scenic landscapes for Greenspace management and assessment? Cultural ecosystem services received international recognition as part of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment Project (2005). Also, ecosystems services encompass regulatory, provisional and ecosystem support. For this article, we are particularly concerned with cultural services, which include recreation, science and education, spiritual/historical as well as aesthetic functions. De Groot (2002) and Farber (2006) provided descriptions of cultural Ecosystem services. De Groot (2002) describes Information functions as comprising of; aesthetic information, recreation, cultural-artistic information and spiritual/historical information. Farber (2005) description of cultural services includes; aesthetic, recreation, science/education, and spiritual/historical functions. This article examines the existing literature with the objective of assessing ecosystem cultural services related to water-based scenic landscape resources and applies it to an Upstate New York lake landscape. Careful accounting of greenspace ecosystem services is presented as applied to lakeshore residents, village residents and town/watershed residents and other lake greenspace users utilizing the US Environmental Protection Agency’s user benefit calculations to yield over 10.6 million dollars of benefits per year (Smardon 2018).

scholarly journals THE USE OF CROWDSOURCED GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION FOR SPATIAL EVALUATION OF CULTURAL ECOSYSTEM SERVICES IN THE AGRICULTURAL LANDSCAPE: THE CASE OF CHIANTI CLASSICO (ITALY)

New Medit ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 105-118
Author(s):  
Veronica Alampi Sottini ◽  
Elena Barbierato ◽  
Iacopo Bernetti ◽  
Irene Capecchi ◽  
Sara Fabbrizzi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Agricultural Landscape ◽  
Rural Landscape ◽  
Cultural Ecosystem Services ◽  
Natural Landscape ◽  
Promising Alternative ◽  
Crowdsourced Data ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Historical Sites ◽  
Geotagged Photo

The use of geo-tagged photographs seems to be a promising alternative to assess Cultural Ecosystem Services CESs in respect to the traditional investigation when focusing on the study of the aesthetic appreciation of a protected area or natural landscape. The aim of this study is integrating the cumulative viewshed calculated from geotagged photo metadata publicly shared on Flickr with raster data on infrastructure, historical sites, and the natural environment, using landscape ecology metrics and RandomForest modelling. Crowdsourced data provided empirical assessments of the covariates associated with visitor distribution, highlighting how changes in infrastructure, crops and environmental factors can affect visitor’s use. These data can help researchers, managers, and public planners to develop projects, and guidelines in the rural landscape for incresing the supply for CESs.

scholarly journals Cultural ecosystem services and disservices in an urban park in Bogota, Colombia

2021 ◽  
Vol 24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carmen Montes-Pulido ◽  
Victor Fabian Forero
Keyword(s):  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Green Infrastructure ◽  
Multiple Correspondence Analysis ◽  
Urban Park ◽  
Sociodemographic Characteristics ◽  
Relative Importance ◽  
Cultural Ecosystem Services ◽  
Physical And Mental Health ◽  
Chi Squared

Abstract Cultural Ecosystem Services (CES) are important for contributing to the physical and mental health of humans, but they have been little studied in low-income populations. It is intended to understand the meaning of the “Entrenubes” Ecological Park (PEN) for visitors, through: 1) identifying the sociodemographic variables associated with the different ecosystem services and disservices; 2) Define how the relative importance of interactions with these variables differs between ES. A questionnaire was applied to 281 visitors. A Multiple Correspondence Analysis (MCA), chi-squared test and ordinal logistic regression were performed between ES and visitor profile. 7 CES and 3 regulatory ones were identified. No significant associations were found between ES preferences, disservices and sociodemographic characteristics of the visitors. Recreation presented the highest average perception. Drug abuse was the predominant disservice. These results provide criteria for decision-making in urban green infrastructure planning.

scholarly journals “It’s All about the Scenery”: Tourists’ Perceptions of Cultural Ecosystem Services in the Lofoten Islands, Norway

ARCTIC ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 72 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Bjørn P. Kaltenborn ◽  
Eivind F. Kaltenborn ◽  
John D.C. Linnell
Keyword(s):  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Cultural Ecosystem Services ◽  
Management Processes ◽  
Lofoten Islands ◽  
Core Elements ◽  
International Visitors ◽  
Depth Interviews

The Lofoten Islands in northern Norway face challenges from increasing visitor numbers, congestion, environmental impacts, and growing host-visitor tensions. Benefits include increased local employment and growing revenues. Future tourism policy requires better documentation of the non-economic benefits and values associated with tourism in Lofoten; this information is important to the development of policy and management processes. We conducted 45 in-depth interviews with domestic and international visitors, using the cultural ecosystem services (ES) framework to ascertain the core elements of the tourism experience, as well as views on management needs and development. We probed reflections on place, aesthetics, recreational opportunities, inspiration, social relations, cultural heritage, knowledge, spirituality, and identity by offering a combination of statements and questions. All these categories of cultural ES were important to most visitors. However, the importance of the landscape was paramount. Policy implications include the need to include landscape in ES assessments, to map places of especially high scenic value, and to use the ES framework more extensively to identify and compare non-economic and economic tourism values and benefits.

scholarly journals Cultural Ecosystem Services Provided by Urban Green Change along an Urban-Periurban Gradient

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 645 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maraja Riechers ◽  
Micha Strack ◽  
Jan Barkmann ◽  
Teja Tscharntke
Keyword(s):  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Population Density ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Principal Component ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Cultural Ecosystem Services ◽  
Urban Green ◽  
Urban Core ◽  
Perceived Importance

Urbanization by densification is globally increasing and endangers maintenance of urban green and associated social-ecological systems. Cultural ecosystem services play a crucial role in human well-being, especially in urban areas. We analyzed perceived importance of cultural ecosystem services provided by green space in Berlin along an urban-periurban gradient. Based on extensive pretests, we designed a standardized questionnaire and conducted 558 face-to-face interviews. B using multiple regressions and principal component analysis, we show that perceived importance of cultural ecosystem services and patterns of urban green use are affected by an urbanization gradient and associated changes in population density. Important cultural ecosystem services decreases in urban core areas with higher population density, whereas people in periurban areas with more available green spaces exhibit a greater valuation of nature. In contrast, social relations and cultural diversity had the highest importance in the urban core, while cultural heritage, education, natural awareness, recreation, and aesthetical appreciation were higher valued in the less populated periurban areas, suggesting two bundles of cultural ecosystem services.

scholarly journals STUDIES ON THE CULTURAL ECOSYSTEM SERVICES IN MALACCA CITY

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (12) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nur Shazwanie Rosehan ◽  
Azlan Abas ◽  
Kadaruddin Aiyub
Keyword(s):  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Survey Method ◽  
Cultural Ecosystem Services ◽  
Aesthetic Value ◽  
Political Economic

The benefits from ecosystem services have the prospective and potential to improve the Malay urban design and increase the quality of life. However, rapid development and urbanization activities are increasingly causing a conversion from the original functions and changes that can affect the urban environment. This paper aims to update current understanding of the concept of Malay cultural ecosystem services in Malacca City. Quantitative research through the survey method to 150 Malay respondents have been carried out in order to identify the parameters describing the types and value of the Malay cultural ecosystem services in the city context. The result revealed aesthetic value, recreational, tourism, social relations, spiritual and educational as the most significance parameters of the Malay cultural ecosystem services. The paper concluded that only through good practices from all parties can reduce the incredible development effects as political, economic and social systems is inevitable and constantly generates new demand.

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