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Perceptions of park visitors on access to urban parks and benefits of green spaces
Urban Forestry & Urban Greening ( IF 6.4 ) Pub Date : 2020-12-29 , DOI: 10.1016/j.ufug.2020.126959
Sukanya Basu , Harini Nagendra

There has been limited research on understanding access to public green spaces in cities of the global South. In a study in Hyderabad, India, we interview visitors in four parks to understand their perceptions of and access to ecosystem services. Of these, two parks charge entry fees and two provide free entry or entry at minimal cost. Most users value the park as a recreational space, but are largely unable to access provisioning services such as food and fodder. This poses a particular challenge for low income residents. In the large parks with high vegetation cover, visitors could identify a variety of trees, plants, and birds, while in the smallest neighbourhood park which has the least amount of greenery, they could only identify a small number of species. Parks were visited more by men than by women, who cited challenges of lack of time, and lack of safety. Park entry fees also acted as barriers, for low income groups. The two parks located in wealthy and gentrifying neighbourhoods were almost exclusively accessed by middle class and wealthy visitors, because of the entry fee.

Surveys of willingness to pay found that wealthy visitors were keen to pay an entry fee and did not seem to understand the implications of such a fee on exclusion, low income visitors expressed negative views. A central role of the urban park as a ‘public space’ within a city is to nourish the sense of community. Yet some parks have been converted into landscaped and designed areas with high public investment, and entry charges, with limited provision for harvesting ecosystem services. Thus even in public spaces like parks, we observe stark gender and income inequalities, leading to the uneven access to green space.



中文翻译:

公园游客对进入城市公园的看法以及绿色空间的好处

关于了解全球南方城市对公共绿地的使用情况的研究很少。在印度海得拉巴的一项研究中,我们采访了四个公园的游客,以了解他们对生态系统服务的理解和使用。其中,两个公园收取入场费,两个公园提供免费入场或以最少的费用进入。大多数用户将公园视为娱乐场所,但基本上无法使用食物和饲料等调配服务。这对低收入居民构成了特别的挑战。在植被覆盖度高的大型公园中,游客可以识别出各种各样的树木,植物和鸟类,而在绿化最少的最小的邻里公园中,他们只能识别出少数物种。参观公园的人数多于男子,而不是妇女,后者提到缺乏时间的挑战,而且缺乏安全性。公园入场费也成为低收入人群的障碍。由于入场费,中产阶级和富裕游客几乎只能访问位于富人和士绅化社区的两个公园。

对支付意愿的调查发现,富裕的游客热衷于支付入门费,而且似乎不了解这种费用对排斥的影响,低收入游客表示了反对意见。城市公园作为城市中的“公共空间”的核心作用是滋养社区感。然而,一些公园已被改造成具有较高公共投资和入门费的景观美化和设计区,而用于采集生态系统服务的经费却很少。因此,即使在公园等公共场所,我们也观察到性别和收入的不平等,导致进入绿色空间的机会不均。

更新日期:2020-12-29
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