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- Andersson-Sköld, Yvonne, et al.
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A framework for assessing urban greenery's effects and valuing its ecosystem services
- 2018
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Ingår i: Journal of Environmental Management. - : Academic Press. - 0301-4797 .- 1095-8630. ; 205, s. 274-285
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Ongoing urban exploitation is increasing pressure to transform urban green spaces, while there is increasing awareness that greenery provides a range of important benefits to city residents. In efforts to help resolve associated problems we have developed a framework for integrated assessments of ecosystem service (ES) benefits and values provided by urban greenery, based on the ecosystem service cascade model. The aim is to provide a method for assessing the contribution to, and valuing, multiple ES provided by urban greenery that can be readily applied in routine planning processes. The framework is unique as it recognizes that an urban greenery comprises several components and functions that can contribute to multiple ecosystem services in one or more ways via different functional traits (e.g. foliage characteristics) for which readily measured indicators have been identified. The framework consists of five steps including compilation of an inventory of indicator; application of effectivity factors to rate indicators' effectiveness; estimation of effects; estimation of benefits for each ES; estimation of the total ES value of the ecosystem. The framework was applied to assess ecosystem services provided by trees, shrubs, herbs, birds, and bees, in green areas spanning an urban gradient in Gothenburg, Sweden. Estimates of perceived values of ecosystem services were obtained from interviews with the public and workshop activities with civil servants. The framework is systematic and transparent at all stages and appears to have potential utility in the existing spatial planning processes.
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- Eliasson, Ingegärd, 1961, et al.
(författare)
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Climate and behaviour in a Nordic city
- 2007
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Ingår i: LANDSCAPE AND URBAN PLANNING. - : Elsevier BV. - 0169-2046 .- 1872-6062. ; 82:1-2, s. 72-84
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Four urban public spaces, representing various designs and microclimates, were investigated in Gothenburg, Sweden, in order to estimate how weather and microclimate affect people in urban outdoor environments. The research strategy was both multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary and included scientists from three disciplines: architecture, climatology and psychology. The project is based on common case studies carried out during four seasons, including measurements of meteorological variables, interviews and observations of human activity at each place. Multiple regression analysis of meteorological and behavioural data showed that air temperature, wind speed and clearness index (cloud cover) have a significant influence on people's assessments of the weather, place perceptions and place-related attendance. The results support the arguments in favour of employing climate sensitive planning in future urban design and planning projects, as the physical component of a place can be designed to influence the site-specific microclimate and consequently people's place-related attendance, perceptions and emotions.
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- Eliasson, Ingegärd, 1961, et al.
(författare)
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Cultural Values of Landscapes in the Practical Work of Biosphere Reserves
- 2023
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Ingår i: Land. - : MDPI AG. - 2073-445X. ; 12:3
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The purpose of this paper is to investigate the role of the landscape’s cultural values in the practical work of biosphere reserves and to identify what opportunities there are to increase awareness and knowledge about these values. The paper draws upon data collected in a Swedish biosphere reserve, including a survey of residents, interviews with public officials involved in cultural heritage management, and an analysis of documents produced by the Biosphere Reserve Association. Residents showed a broad knowledge about the landscape’s cultural values, and they linked immaterial heritage to material objects. The residents’ strong identity and pride in relation to the landscape were confirmed by the officials, who argued that it is the deep layers of history and the cultural diversity of the landscape that make the biosphere reserve attractive. However, concepts related to the landscape’s cultural values were barely touched upon in the documents analysed; the landscape’s cultural values were presented as a background—as an abstract value. The findings reveal several unexplored opportunities and practical implications to increase awareness and knowledge of the landscape’s cultural values. Suggested actions include definition of goals, articulation and use of concepts, inventories of actors, increased collaboration, and use of residents’ knowledge. Cultural values of landscapes are often neglected in the practical work of biosphere reserves, despite the social and cultural dimensions of sustainable development being an important component of UNESCO’s Man and the Biosphere (MAB) Programme. This research indicates several ways of bridging this gap between theory and practice
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- Eliasson, Ingegärd, 1961, et al.
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Fjäll som kultur?
- 2015
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Bok (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Fjällområdet är ett kulturlandskap där människor bott och verkat under tusentals år. Naturen har satt gränsen för människans livsvillkor och möjlighet att överleva. Här har växt- och djurliv slipats och formats och det är bara arter med hög grad av anpassning som överlevt. Vi ser fysiska lämningar efter mänskliga aktiviteter, men det finns också minnen, berättelser och kunskap som förs vidare från generation till generation. Speciella träd, stenar och naturformationer har varit markörer i landskapet och fungerat som vägvisare till och från platser längs med stigar och färdvägar. De har fungerat som mentala kartor för orientering i terrängen. Natur och kultur existerar parallellt i fjällområdet, därför bör samverkan öka på alla nivåer och även mellan verksamhetsområden. Det är vårt gemensamma ansvar att värna om natur- och kulturvärden på fjället. Denna skrift har tillkommit inom ramen för forskningsprojektet Fjällandskap: betydelsen av kulturella ekosystemtjänster. Projektet är en del av forskningsprogrammet Storslagen fjällmiljö. Resultaten, som bygger på enkäter och intervjuer, visar att de boende i Jämtlands län vistas oftast i fjällen på vintern och våren. Då är de mest intresserade av att uppleva naturen och vila, eller att umgås socialt och njuta av friluftslivet. De boende har även hittat, ”mutat in”, sina egna favoritplatser, platser som de har knutit starka band till. Den enskilda personen upplever följaktligen att favoritplatsen i fjällen är en del av hens historia. När personen vistas på denna plats upplever sig hen ha ett högt välbefinnande. Personen ”laddar” med andra ord ”batterierna” på sin favoritplats i fjällen. Dessa samband är något som tjänstemän inom fysisk planering är medvetna om och önskar att de kunde använda mer som en utgångspunkt i sitt dagliga arbete med att planera och förvalta fjällandskapet. Många av tjänstemännen eftersträvar en helhetssyn i den fysiska planeringen och ett miljöarbete där kultur och natur möts. Men de påpekar att den aktuella sektoruppdelningen mellan natur och kultur skapar svårigheter i det praktiska arbetet. Resultaten från projektet går i linje med internationell forskning som visar att landskapets kulturella och historiska dimensioner skapar en känsla av kontinuitet som är relaterad till identitet och välbefinnande. Vi hoppas att skriften kommer att inspirera handläggare till att förvalta kulturlandskapet i fjällen varsamt och hållbart. Tack till Länsstyrelsen i Jämtlands län som finansierat tryckning av denna skrift samt till projektets huvudfinansiärer Riksantikvarieämbetet och Naturvårdsverket. Tack även till alla deltagare och personer som läst och konstruktivt kommenterat tidigare versioner av denna skrift. Funäsdalen 24 september 2015 Ingegärd Eliasson, Göteborgs universitet Igor Knez, Högskolan i Gävle Ewa Ljungdahl, Gaaltije Ola Hanneryd, Härjedalens Fjällmuseum AB Eva Karlsson, Länsstyrelsen i Jämtlands län
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- Eliasson, Ingegärd, 1961, et al.
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Heritage Planning in Practice and the Role of Cultural Ecosystem Services
- 2018
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Ingår i: Heritage & Society. - : Taylor and Francis Ltd.. - 2159-032X .- 2159-0338. ; 11:1, s. 44-69
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper investigates the role of cultural ecosystem services in heritage planning by examining daily working processes at the municipal and county planning levels. The focus was on the cultural ecosystem service dimensions of cultural heritage, place identity, and aesthetic and existential values. Cultural ecosystem service dimensions are currently inadequately represented in research and application of the ecosystem service concept. Semi-structured interviews were carried out with public officials with formal assignments directly related to heritage planning. The results show that cultural ecosystem services are indeed considered in the planning processes, even though the respondents did not actually use the ecosystem service approach. Despite institutional and methodological constraints, respondents were found to aim for a broad planning approach involving dimensions of the landscape such as historic time depth, human use of the landscape, place identity, landscape views, and a strong integration between culture and nature. Thus, the results indicate a potential for integration of cultural ecosystem service dimensions into the ecosystem service approach by utilizing existing knowledge and practices within heritage planning at the local and regional levels.
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- Eliasson, Ingegärd, 1961, et al.
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Klimatet vänder turistströmmar
- 2009
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Ingår i: Miljöforskning. ; 1, s. 24-25:1, s. 24-25
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Eliasson, Ingegärd, 1961, et al.
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The Need to Articulate Historic and Cultural Dimensions of Landscapes in Sustainable Environmental Planning - A Swedish Case Study
- 2022
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Ingår i: Land. - : MDPI. - 2073-445X. ; 11:11
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Ignoring the historic and cultural dimensions of landscapes makes environmental planning unsustainable, which in the long run, will have a negative impact on both the environment and society. This paper examines the work and perceptions of practitioners with a focus on the role of historic and cultural landscape dimensions and their relation to the recent implementation of the ecosystem service framework in sustainable environmental planning. Semi-structured interviews with officials at local and regional planning levels in a Swedish case study showed that the historical landscape forms the basis for environmental work. Respondents expressed an integrated view of the landscape, and historic and cultural landscape dimensions were considered important in the initial planning process. However, several challenges existed later in the planning process and final decision-making, such as conceptual ambiguities, unclear policy and assignments, limited cross-sectorial coordination and lack of awareness, knowledge, resources and other priorities. The results also show that the respondents worked regularly with intangible landscape dimensions, which can be defined as cultural ecosystem services, but they do not label them as such. Furthermore, established knowledge and expertise of heritage planning was not activated in the implementation of the ecosystem service approach. We conclude that historic and cultural landscape dimensions are not ignored in practice, but there is a need to articulate these aspects more clearly in order to achieve sustainable environmental planning. There is also an unexplored opportunity to connect skills and create new forms of cross-sectorial collaboration between heritage planning and the ES approach.
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- Fredholm, Susanne, 1978, et al.
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Conservation of historical landscapes: What signifies ‘successful’ management?
- 2018
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Ingår i: Landscape Research. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0142-6397 .- 1469-9710. ; 43:5, s. 735-748
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- © 2017 Landscape Research Group Ltd This paper focuses on the management of an industrial heritage site in Sweden, which local stakeholders and heritage planners have claimed to be successful. This status of excellence is investigated in relation to the general, county-wide applied heritage planning. The results show that key factors for successful management of the industrial heritage site are not related only to conservation work, but also to personal engagement, sense of responsibility, and well-being among participants. However, heritage planners generally lack methods to address immaterial values and socio-economic benefits of engaging in heritage activities, resulting in a separation between physical and communal aspects of heritage planning. The results highlight the issue of professional legitimacy and the challenges for heritage planners to address regional policy objectives, such as finding ways to utilise historic landscapes in destination-driven strategies and to simultaneously support civil engagement in heritage-related issues.
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- Gunnarsson, Bengt, 1954, et al.
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Effects of biodiversity and environment-related attitude on perception of urban green space
- 2017
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Ingår i: Urban Ecosystems. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 1083-8155 .- 1573-1642. ; 20:1, s. 37-49
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Green space in cities contributes to the quality of life for city dwellers, e.g., by increasing the opportunity for recreation. However, perception of urban green space is influenced by multiple factors. We investigated effects of biodiversity and environment-related attitudes on visual and auditory perceptions of urban green space. Field measurements of biodiversity were conducted in six sites across an urban gradient in Gothenburg, Sweden, and three categories of biodiversity—high, medium, low—were established. Households were sent a survey on aesthetic perception of urban green space, sound perception and the importance of trees and plants for the perception of bird species. Each respondent focused on the site that was located nearby. The environment-related attitudes comprised “Nature-oriented” and “Urban-oriented” persons and were based on participants’ own attitude estimations. It was shown that participants’ “subjective” aesthetic and sound-related perception of urban greenery were in line with the “objectively” measured subdivisions of high, medium and low biodiversity. So also were their estimations of the importance of trees and plants for perception of bird species in urban greenery, although differing only between high and medium/low biodiversity conditions. Persons rating themselves as highly nature-oriented were shown to give higher scores to urban green space aesthetics and to value greenery-related sounds higher, and to attach greater importance to trees and plants in their perception of bird species in urban greenery, than less nature-oriented persons. Highly urban-oriented persons compared to less urban-oriented persons did the same, but only regarding urban greenery-related aesthetics and sounds of nature. We conclude that environment-related attitudes influence perceptions of green space. Moreover, our findings support the idea that biodiversity per se also influences perceptions; people value green space significantly more with high than with low measured biodiversity. Urban planning needs to provide city inhabitants with green spaces that are species-rich, lush, varied and rich with natural sounds.
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- Gustavsson, Eva, 1970, et al.
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Min plats i biosfären
- 2019
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Bok (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- “Min plats i biosfären” är en skrift som presenterar forskningsresultat om vilken roll kulturmiljön och de kulturella ekosystemtjänsterna kulturarv och platsidentitet har för människors välbefinnande och för hållbar landskapsförvaltning inom Biosfärområde Vänerskärgården med Kinnekulle. Resultaten i skriften baseras på forskningsprojektet “Kulturmiljö och kulturarv som en del av hållbar landskapsförvaltning” och har genomförts av forskare vid Göteborgs universitet och Högskolan i Gävle.
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