Accessibility to urban green spaces: A critical review of WHO recommendations in the light of tree-covered areas assessment

IF 7 2区环境科学与生态学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

Ecological Indicators Pub Date : 2024-09-05 DOI:10.1016/j.ecolind.2024.112548

Patrycja Przewoźna, Adam Inglot, Marcin Mielewczyk, Krzysztof Maczka, Piotr Matczak

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Abstract

Easy accessibility of Urban Green Spaces (UGSs) is essential to the quality of life in urban areas. The World Health Organization (WHO) recommendations focus on spatial access to UGSs, define as accessible those larger than 0.5 ha situated up to 300 m of residential areas, and disregard the social significance of smaller green spaces. This paper assesses the extent to which the WHO recommendations permit the identification of locations for tree-covered UGSs that serve urban residents. The study uses geo-questionnaire to collect data on residents’ perception of the ecosystem services (ESs) provided by trees in both small-sized (<0.5 ha) and larger (≥0.5 ha) UGSs in two Polish cities, Poznań and Gdańsk. Three factors impacting the social perception of UGS accessibility were controlled: (a) distance to trees (influencing reaching it by walk), (b) age, (c) the ESs provided by trees in both sizes of UGSs. The minority, i.e. 26 % of respondents valued trees in the larger UGSs.

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城市绿地的可达性：根据树木覆盖区评估对世卫组织建议的严格审查

城市绿地（UGS）的便利可达性对提高城市地区的生活质量至关重要。世界卫生组织（WHO）的建议侧重于城市绿地的空间可达性，将距离居民区 300 米以内、面积大于 0.5 公顷的绿地定义为可达绿地，而忽视了较小绿地的社会意义。本文评估了世界卫生组织的建议在多大程度上允许确定服务于城市居民的有树木覆盖的城市地标的位置。研究采用地理问卷调查的方式，收集波兰两个城市（波兹南和格但斯克）的居民对小型（<0.5 公顷）和大型（≥0.5 公顷）UGS 中树木提供的生态系统服务（ES）的感知数据。对影响社会对UGS可达性看法的三个因素进行了控制：(a) 到树木的距离（影响步行到达），(b) 年龄，(c) 两种规模的UGS中树木提供的ES。少数受访者，即 26%的受访者看重较大型的配额制中的树木。

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Ecological Indicators 环境科学-环境科学

CiteScore

11.80

自引率

8.70%

发文量

1163

审稿时长

78 days

期刊介绍： The ultimate aim of Ecological Indicators is to integrate the monitoring and assessment of ecological and environmental indicators with management practices. The journal provides a forum for the discussion of the applied scientific development and review of traditional indicator approaches as well as for theoretical, modelling and quantitative applications such as index development. Research into the following areas will be published. • All aspects of ecological and environmental indicators and indices. • New indicators, and new approaches and methods for indicator development, testing and use. • Development and modelling of indices, e.g. application of indicator suites across multiple scales and resources. • Analysis and research of resource, system- and scale-specific indicators. • Methods for integration of social and other valuation metrics for the production of scientifically rigorous and politically-relevant assessments using indicator-based monitoring and assessment programs. • How research indicators can be transformed into direct application for management purposes. • Broader assessment objectives and methods, e.g. biodiversity, biological integrity, and sustainability, through the use of indicators. • Resource-specific indicators such as landscape, agroecosystems, forests, wetlands, etc.