Abstract Perceived safety influences women’s use of green environments (GE) for physical activity with considerable implications on health. In order to address gender inequality in GE use, the effects of physical and social environmental factors on women’s perception of safety must be assessed. To achieve this, a pilot study designed and implemented a safety map based on a qualitative Geographic Information System (qGIS) methodology, in an urban stream corridor of the Metropolitan Region of Barcelona. Fourteen in-depth interviews with women users of the stream corridor were conducted to identify influencing environmental factors (i.e., lighting, vegetation density, visibility, and presence of streets, residential areas, industrial areas, parking areas, green areas, abandoned areas and discotheques, for the physical; and presence of truck drivers and vandals, and user density, for the social). These factors were translated into four spatial indicators (visibility, vegetation density, lighting, and land use) to allow for generation of safety index values. The safety map combined the safety index values with individual perceptions. The integration of qualitative and quantitative methods served to compare and contrast micro-scale individual perceptions with general perceptions of safety at the GE macro-scale. The safety map pointed out the importance of providing “eyes on the GE” and provided a nuanced understanding of how perceptions are mediated by women’s background (patriarchal vision of public space, criminal stereotypes and vulnerability of women) and everyday practices (recurrent use of GE). The map identified the areas that merit decision-makers’ attention to develop strategies for reverting gender inequality in GE use.

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城市河流走廊女性安全感知评估：基于定性 GIS 开发安全地图

摘要 感知安全影响女性使用绿色环境 (GE) 进行体育活动，对健康有相当大的影响。为了解决 GE 使用中的性别不平等问题，必须评估物理和社会环境因素对女性安全感的影响。为实现这一目标，一项试点研究设计并实施了基于定性地理信息系统 (qGIS) 方法的安全地图，在巴塞罗那大都市区的城市河流走廊中进行。对河流走廊的女性用户进行了 14 次深入访谈，以确定影响环境因素（即照明、植被密度、能见度以及街道、住宅区、工业区、停车场、绿地、废弃区和迪斯科舞厅的存在） ，对于物理；以及卡车司机和破坏者的存在，以及社交用户密度）。这些因素被转化为四个空间指标（能见度、植被密度、照明和土地利用），以生成安全指数值。安全地图将安全指数值与个人感知相结合。定性和定量方法的整合有助于比较和对比微观尺度的个人认知与 GE 宏观尺度的一般安全认知。安全地图指出了“关注 GE”的重要性，并提供了对女性背景（公共空间的父权制观念、犯罪成见和女性的脆弱性）和日常做法（反复使用 GE ）。