Structural diversity

A multi-Dimensional approach to assess recreational services in urban parks

authored by

Annette Voigt, Nadja Kabisch, Daniel Wurster, Dagmar Haase, Jürgen Breuste

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 multidimensional landscape mapping and questionnaire surveys. Wediscuss the method as well the results from its application to differently sized parks in Berlin and Salzburg.

External Organisation(s)

University of Salzburg
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ)
Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Center for Environmental Health
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (HU Berlin)

Type

Article

Journal

AMBIO

Volume

43

Pages

480-491

No. of pages

12

ISSN

0044-7447

Publication date

05.2014

Publication status

Published

Peer reviewed

Yes

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Geography, Planning and Development, Environmental Chemistry, Ecology

Sustainable Development Goals

SDG 11 - Sustainable Cities and Communities

Electronic version(s)

https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-014-0508-9 (Access: Open)