Using social media photos to explore the relation between cultural ecosystem services and landscape features across five European sites

Ecological Indicators

Volumn 94, Issue , 2018, Pages 74-86

  Oteros Rozas, Elisa ^a,b   Martín López, Berta ^c   Fagerholm, Nora ^a,d   Bieling, Claudia ^e   Plieninger, Tobias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSIDAD PABLO DE OLAVIDE   (Spain)

^c LEUPHANA UNIVERSITY OF LÜNEBURG   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Landscape values; Non material benefits; Photos; Social preferences; User generated content (UGC)

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

LANDSCAPE VALUES; NON-MATERIAL BENEFITS; PHOTOS; SOCIAL PREFERENCE; USER GENERATED CONTENT (UGC);

AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS;

CULTURAL HERITAGE; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; ESTHETICS; LANDSCAPE PLANNING; PERCEPTION; PHOTOGRAPH; PREFERENCE BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL MEDIA; SOCIAL STRUCTURE; TRADE-OFF;

EUROPE;

EID: 85013130000     PISSN: 1470160X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2017.02.009     Document Type: Article

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