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- Ignatieva, Maria, et al.
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An alternative urban green carpet How can we move to sustainable lawns in a time of climate change?
- 2018
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Ingår i: Science. - : American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). - 0036-8075 .- 1095-9203. ; 362, s. 148-149
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Annan publikation (refereegranskat)abstract
- Lawns are a global phenomenon. They green the urban environment and provide amenable public and private open spaces. In Sweden, 52% of the urban green areas are lawns. In the United States, lawns cover 1.9% of the country’s terrestrial area and lawn grass is the largest irrigated nonfood crop. Assuming lawn would cover 23% of cities globally [on the basis of data from the United States and Sweden], it would occupy 0.15 million to 0.80 million km2 (depending on urban definitions) - that is, an area bigger than England and Spain combined or about 1.4% of the global grassland area. Yet, lawns exact environmental and economic costs, and given the environmental and economic impacts of climate change, it is time to consider new alternative “lawnscapes” in urban planning as beneficial and sustainable alternatives.
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- Lehto, Carl, et al.
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Landscape usage by recreationists is shaped by availability: insights from a national PPGIS survey in Sweden
- 2022
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Ingår i: Landscape and Urban Planning. - : Elsevier BV. - 0169-2046 .- 1872-6062. ; 227
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Annan publikation (refereegranskat)abstract
- Areas suitable for outdoor recreation are in decline due to urbanization and land-use intensification. To provide people with access to recreational areas, it is imperative to understand what characterizes areas attractive to recreationists. In this study we explore patterns of outdoor recreation visits on a national scale, using a large (n = 3853) Public Participatory GIS survey in Sweden. We analyze land cover of areas visited in comparison to landscape composition across a gradient from urban to rural areas. Additionally, we employ machine learning models to compare attributes of areas visited to random areas in the available landscape. We found that the geographical distribution of outdoor recreation was highly aggregated, with 57 % of recreation occurring in urban and periurban areas, which together cover 5 % of the total land area. Landscape characteristics were weak predictors of where outdoor recreation took place. The median travel distance to the area where recreation was conducted was 2 km, which is longer than what recreationists prefer according to previous studies. We argue that this is indicative of a recreational deficit in Sweden, with recreationists’ preferences not being expressed due to lack of access to suitable areas close to home. This highlights the importance for physical planners to consider spatial accessibility when planning for outdoor recreation.
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- Ode Sang, Åsa, et al.
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Linking perception of green space characteristics and biodiversity with well-being and recreation in order to map urban cultural ecosystem services
- 2015
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Annan publikation (refereegranskat)abstract
- Urban green spaces provide a wide variety of ecosystem services but are also under a constant threat through processes of densification and changes in transport infrastructure. For urban areas, the cultural ecosystem services are often expressed by planners and managers to be of special importance. There has been an increased recognition of the importance that green spaces has with regards to people's health and well-being, with green areas a setting for both physical activity and restoration. However, the connection between well-being and the more nuanced view of green spaces as for species, flora and biodiversity per se is less studied. Here we studied the connection between people's experience of green spaces in the city of Gothenburg and biophysical values related to biodiversity. In total 6 specific green spaces of varied characteristics were studied (size 1.8-3.5 ha). For each green space a survey was sent out to its near-by residents asking questions of people's perception and importance of different characteristics and associated feelings of well-being and recreational use of each green space respectively (N= 1347) Parallel to this, field inventories relating to different aspects of biodiversity were conducted including pollinators (bumblebees), birds, treespecies, tree dbh, treecover, shrubs, dead trees and flora. The responses from the survey is analysed together with field data and results on the relationship between perception of the green space with regards to aspects of naturalness and stewardship, different aspects of measured biodiversity and cultural ecosystem services such as recreation and well-being will be presented.
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