A portfolio of natural places: Using a participatory GIS tool to compare the appreciation and use of green spaces inside and outside urban areas by urban residents

Landscape and Urban Planning

Volumn 158, Issue , 2017, Pages 155-165

  Bijker, Rixt A ^a,b   Sijtsma, Frans J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Nature; Participatory GIS; Quantitative analysis; Urban green space; Urbanisation; Wellbeing

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CONSERVATION; ECOLOGY;

NATURE; PARTICIPATORY GIS; URBAN GREEN SPACES; URBANISATION; WELLBEING;

URBAN PLANNING;

GIS; GREENSPACE; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; PARTICIPATORY APPROACH; PERCEPTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; URBAN AREA; URBAN ECOSYSTEM; URBAN PLANNING; URBAN POPULATION; WORLD WIDE WEB;

DENMARK; GERMANY; NETHERLANDS;

EID: 84995761634     PISSN: 01692046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2016.10.004     Document Type: Article

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