Structural Diversity: A Multi-dimensional Approach to Assess Recreational Services in Urban Parks

Sammanfattning

Urban green spaces provide important recreational services for urban residents. In general, when park visitors enjoy "the green," they are in actuality appreciating a mix of biotic, abiotic, and man-made park infrastructure elements and qualities. We argue that these three dimensions of structural diversity have an influence on how people use and value urban parks. We present a straightforward approach for assessing urban parks that combines multi-dimensional landscape mapping and questionnaire surveys. We discuss the method as well the results from its application to differently sized parks in Berlin and Salzburg.

Nyckelord

Urban parks; Assessment; Structural diversity; Recreation

Publicerad i

AMBIO: A Journal of the Human Environment
2014, volym: 43, nummer: 4, sidor: 480-491

SLU författare

• Haase, Dagmar

  • Helmholtz Zentrum für Umweltforschung (UFZ)
  • Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

UKÄ forskningsämne

Annan geovetenskap

Publikationens identifierare

• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-014-0508-9

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https://res.slu.se/id/publ/89456