Capturing landscape values in peri-urban Satoyama forests: Diversity of visitors' perceptions and implications for future value assessments
Peri-urban Satoyama forests in Japan provide multiple or bundles of cultural ecosystem services (CES), yet, visitors’ perceptions of CES are not well established. There is a need to explore these perceptions in order to provide comprehensive information to forest managers. This study aims to address...
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| description | Peri-urban Satoyama forests in Japan provide multiple or bundles of cultural ecosystem services (CES), yet, visitors’ perceptions of CES are not well established. There is a need to explore these perceptions in order to provide comprehensive information to forest managers. This study aims to address this knowledge gap by exploring the profiles of visitors of peri-urban Satoyama forests and their perceived importance of CES using a landscape value (LV) typology table. Nine LVs of Kaisho Forest in Aichi, Japan were assessed using face-to-face questionnaires on socio-demographic variables, forest use, and a photograph-based approach, which were analyzed using descriptive statistics, quantitative cross-tabulation, multiple response analyses, and geocoding. Results showed that the forest is visited mostly by married elderly people from Aichi Prefecture who were engaged in forest bathing or birdwatching. Forest use patterns, like frequency, duration of the visit, and group size, presented a significant relation to demographic variables, like marital status or gender. Furthermore, the study showed how visitors´ LV perceptions were weighted towards natural and aesthetic values. The socio-cultural Satoyama forest elements displayed a more detailed value perception where recreational, therapeutic, spiritual, cultural-historic, and educational values were also assigned. The LV perception enhances a comprehensive description of the perceived positive effects of visiting such forests. Hence, we concluded that visitors gain positive effects on mental and emotional health and spirituality as part of CES. Forest managers can reflect and accommodate diverse landscape value typology as a tool for monitoring visitors’ perceptions. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-c1c23a3745a94d1595f244d3b98aeda42022-12-22T04:21:50ZengElsevierTrees, Forests and People2666-71932022-12-0110100339Capturing landscape values in peri-urban Satoyama forests: Diversity of visitors' perceptions and implications for future value assessmentsBarbara Kovács0Yuta Uchiyama1Yoshitaka Miyake2Jay Mar D. Quevedo3Ryo Kohsaka4Center for Interdisciplinary Studies on Environment and Development, National Polytechnic Institute, Mexico City, MexicoGraduate School of Human Development and Environment, Kobe University, Kobe, JapanGraduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, JapanGraduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, JapanGraduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan; Corresponding author. Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, 1-1-1, Yayoi, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-8657 Japan.Peri-urban Satoyama forests in Japan provide multiple or bundles of cultural ecosystem services (CES), yet, visitors’ perceptions of CES are not well established. There is a need to explore these perceptions in order to provide comprehensive information to forest managers. This study aims to address this knowledge gap by exploring the profiles of visitors of peri-urban Satoyama forests and their perceived importance of CES using a landscape value (LV) typology table. Nine LVs of Kaisho Forest in Aichi, Japan were assessed using face-to-face questionnaires on socio-demographic variables, forest use, and a photograph-based approach, which were analyzed using descriptive statistics, quantitative cross-tabulation, multiple response analyses, and geocoding. Results showed that the forest is visited mostly by married elderly people from Aichi Prefecture who were engaged in forest bathing or birdwatching. Forest use patterns, like frequency, duration of the visit, and group size, presented a significant relation to demographic variables, like marital status or gender. Furthermore, the study showed how visitors´ LV perceptions were weighted towards natural and aesthetic values. The socio-cultural Satoyama forest elements displayed a more detailed value perception where recreational, therapeutic, spiritual, cultural-historic, and educational values were also assigned. The LV perception enhances a comprehensive description of the perceived positive effects of visiting such forests. Hence, we concluded that visitors gain positive effects on mental and emotional health and spirituality as part of CES. Forest managers can reflect and accommodate diverse landscape value typology as a tool for monitoring visitors’ perceptions.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666719322001467Landscape valueCultural ecosystem servicesSatoyamaVisitor profileCommunity perceptions |
| spellingShingle | Barbara Kovács Yuta Uchiyama Yoshitaka Miyake Jay Mar D. Quevedo Ryo Kohsaka Capturing landscape values in peri-urban Satoyama forests: Diversity of visitors' perceptions and implications for future value assessments Trees, Forests and People Landscape value Cultural ecosystem services Satoyama Visitor profile Community perceptions |
| title | Capturing landscape values in peri-urban Satoyama forests: Diversity of visitors' perceptions and implications for future value assessments |
| title_full | Capturing landscape values in peri-urban Satoyama forests: Diversity of visitors' perceptions and implications for future value assessments |
| title_fullStr | Capturing landscape values in peri-urban Satoyama forests: Diversity of visitors' perceptions and implications for future value assessments |
| title_full_unstemmed | Capturing landscape values in peri-urban Satoyama forests: Diversity of visitors' perceptions and implications for future value assessments |
| title_short | Capturing landscape values in peri-urban Satoyama forests: Diversity of visitors' perceptions and implications for future value assessments |
| title_sort | capturing landscape values in peri urban satoyama forests diversity of visitors perceptions and implications for future value assessments |
| topic | Landscape value Cultural ecosystem services Satoyama Visitor profile Community perceptions |
| url | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666719322001467 |
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