Abstract

Listening to what people discuss about natural landscapes is important, particularly for the management of protected areas where a range of uses are permitted with the potential for conflict. Increasingly social media platforms provide insights into such public discourses. Retrieving data from Twitter, we conducted a bilingual quantitative analysis of the content and sentiments in 2,060 tweets in Portuguese (67%), or English (29%) about Arrábida Natural Park, Portugal. Tweets were mostly positive (68%) and often talked about natural features (58%), park visitation (17%), activities and regional food (14%) and/or environmental issues (10%), with similar content in tweets from locals and other nationals, but some differences with international tweeters. Although with limitations, analyzing conversations on Twitter beyond just those in English can enhance park management by providing broader insights into who talks about what, when and in which language, their values and their perceptions of parks and their management.

摘要

倾听人们对自然景观的讨论很重要，特别是对于保护区的管理，在这些保护区的一系列用途被允许但可能会发生冲突。越来越多的社交媒体平台提供了对此类公共话语的见解。从 Twitter 检索数据，我们对 2,060 条葡萄牙语 (67%) 或英语 (29%) 推文的内容和情绪进行了双语定量分析，这些推文是关于葡萄牙阿拉比达自然公园的。推文大多是正面的 (68%)，并且经常谈论自然特征 (58%)、公园参观 (17%)、活动和区域食物 (14%) 和/或环境问题 (10%)，来自当地人和其他国民，但与国际高音扬声器有些不同。虽然有限制，