Haase, Dagmar
- Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ)
- Humboldt University of Berlin
Abstract
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.
Keywords
Urban parks; Assessment; Structural diversity; Recreation
Published in
AMBIO: A Journal of the Human Environment
2014, volume: 43, number: 4, pages: 480-491
SLU Authors
UKÄ Subject classification
Other Earth Sciences
Publication identifier
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-014-0508-9
Permanent link to this page (URI)
https://res.slu.se/id/publ/89456