Fear of crime may restrict people’s use of urban green spaces and thus decrease those spaces’ potential public health benefits. Managerial measures in public green spaces that enhance perceived safety are therefore necessary. However, park managemnet in the Nordic countries seems to lack the knowledge and practice of assessing park users’ perceptions of safety. The objective of this paper was to develop a place-sensitive tool for park safety–management practice that combined park manager and user perspectives adapted to the Nordic context. Two empirical studies were conducted in Oslo to achieve this objective. Phase 1 included a focus-group interview with a team of municipal green-space managers to investigate challenges in their safety-related work. In phase 2 a multi-method field study was conducted in an urban park to assess female user's perceptions of safety in a place-sensitive manner and test methods to be included in a tool for managers. First, safety walks and interviews with ten female residents provided on-site information on how their local park was perceived in terms of safety. The walks also resulted in identification of problematic places. These places were then systematically assessed by twenty female non-residents using questionnaires exploring the relation between perceived environmental attributes and perceived safety. Based on the green-space managers’ experiences and addressed needs, as well as experinces from the field study, a place-sensitive method and accompanying tool—called SAFE—for assessing perceived safety in urban parks for managerial purposes is presented.

对犯罪的恐惧可能会限制人们对城市绿色空间的使用，从而减少这些空间对公共健康的潜在好处。因此，有必要在公共绿地中采取管理措施以增强人们的安全感。但是，北欧国家的公园管理网络似乎缺乏评估公园使用者对安全的看法的知识和实践。本文的目的是为公园安全管理实践开发一个位置敏感的工具，该工具结合了适合北欧环境的公园管理者和用户的观点。为了实现这一目标，在奥斯陆进行了两次实证研究。第一阶段包括与一组市政绿地经理进行的焦点小组访谈，以调查他们在安全相关工作中的挑战。在第2阶段，在城市公园中进行了多方法现场研究，以评估女性用户的 管理者以一种对位置敏感的方式理解安全性的方法和测试方法。首先，安全步行和对十名女性居民的采访提供了有关如何从安全角度看待他们当地公园的现场信息。散步还导致发现有问题的地方。然后，由二十位女性非居民使用问卷调查系统地评估这些地方，这些问卷调查的是感知环境属性与感知安全性之间的关系。基于绿色空间管理者的经验和解决的需求以及现场研究的经验，提出了一种位置敏感的方法和称为SAFE的辅助工具，用于评估出于管理目的在城市公园中感知到的安全性。