Participatory mapping of human-nature interactions in mountain landscapes: Instances of experiential multi-functionality

IF 9.2 1区环境科学与生态学 Q1 ECOLOGY

Landscape and Urban Planning Pub Date : 2025-07-17 DOI:10.1016/j.landurbplan.2025.105453

Manuel Ebner , Uta Schirpke

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Mountain landscapes offer numerous opportunities for human-nature interactions that contribute to human well-being. While recreational and aesthetic values are well-studied, both experiences of non-material benefits to well-being and experiences impairing experiential quality remain underexplored, particularly in spatial analyses. Therefore, this study employs participatory mapping by residents and visitors in a cross-regional mountain landscape (Austria, Germany), aiming to (1) map the spatial distribution and patterns of positive and negative mountain experiences, (2) examine how experiences align with landscape characteristics and (3) explore spatial hotspots of experiences. Our results show that mountain landscapes support diverse positive experiences mapped across 1,340 places, including aesthetic and nature experiences, while also other sensory impressions such as pleasant natural sounds were important experiential components. Negative experiences mapped across 548 places included mostly crowding (46.9%) and anthropogenic noise (18.8%), often overlapping positive experiences (Jaccard similarity index: 0.41). These co-occurrences were confirmed in density-based spatial clustering indicating 16 hotspots highlighting the place-specific experiential multi-functionality of mountain landscapes. These patterns were also reflected by landscape characteristics, with significant difference in mapped experiences by elevation and accessibility, whereby mountain grasslands and, especially, rocky/sparsely vegetated areas featured highest area-weighted indices for aesthetic, recreational, and nature experiences. The evident spatial patterns, hotspots, and emergence of potential conflict zones by coinciding positive and negative experiences highlights the importance of incorporating multiple experiential dimensions into landscape management and planning to support the quality of human-nature interactions in mountains.

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Landscape and Urban Planning 环境科学-生态学

CiteScore

15.20

自引率

6.60%

发文量

232

审稿时长

6 months

期刊介绍： Landscape and Urban Planning is an international journal that aims to enhance our understanding of landscapes and promote sustainable solutions for landscape change. The journal focuses on landscapes as complex social-ecological systems that encompass various spatial and temporal dimensions. These landscapes possess aesthetic, natural, and cultural qualities that are valued by individuals in different ways, leading to actions that alter the landscape. With increasing urbanization and the need for ecological and cultural sensitivity at various scales, a multidisciplinary approach is necessary to comprehend and align social and ecological values for landscape sustainability. The journal believes that combining landscape science with planning and design can yield positive outcomes for both people and nature.