Where are the hotspots and coldspots of landscape values, visitor use and biodiversity in an urban forest?

ABSTRACT: Cities and urban green areas therein can be considered as complex social-ecological systems that provide various ecosystem services with different synergies and trade-offs among them. In this article, we show that multiple stakeholder perspectives and data sources should be used to capture key values for sustainable planning and management of urban green spaces. Using an urban forest in Helsinki, Finland as a case study, we incorporated data collected using public participation GIS, expert elicitation and forest inventories in order to investigate the guidance that the different types of data, and their integration, can provide for landscape planning. We examined the relationship and spatial concurrence between two social variables i.e. visitors' perceived landscape values and green space

SUBMITTER: Korpilo S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6157851 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature