Factors affecting the use of urban forests in Turkey
The aim of this paper is to find drivers behind visitor’s participation in the use of urban forests and to explain the differences in co-operation in urban forest management with the help of game theoretic modeling. For this purpose, data regarding public urban forests of Turkey were collected and a...
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Isparta University of Applied Sciences Faculty of Forestry
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| author | Erdoğan ATMİŞ Hikmet Batuhan GÜNŞEN Cengiz YÜCEDAĞ Wietze LİSE |
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| description | The aim of this paper is to find drivers behind visitor’s participation in the use of urban forests and to explain the differences in co-operation in urban forest management with the help of game theoretic modeling. For this
purpose, data regarding public urban forests of Turkey were collected and analyzed by various statistical methods. According to the principal component analysis, leading factors affecting the use of urban forest were, ordered from the most important to the least important: (1) forest versatility, (2) management intensity, (3) visitor services, (4) forest tranquility, and (5) forest activities. These five factors accounted for 71% of the total variance among the variables. Furthermore, multiple regression analyses showed that, especially in cities with an abundance of forests, the use of urban forests was not widespread, whereas urban forests were visited more in the settlements having a high number of young population and a large family size. The estimated game theoretic model on participation indicated that the availability of forest services among visitors was generally harmonious. It could be concluded that urban forestry has to focus, not only on increasing the number and size of urban forests, but also on educating all relevant social groups in society on how to use urban forests in a sustainable and responsible manner. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-ebc934fd619048cb8dd1c9d1792977482023-02-15T16:11:56ZengIsparta University of Applied Sciences Faculty of ForestryTurkish Journal of Forestry2149-38982017-02-0118111010.18182/tjf.3086291656Factors affecting the use of urban forests in TurkeyErdoğan ATMİŞ0Hikmet Batuhan GÜNŞEN1Cengiz YÜCEDAĞ2Wietze LİSE3BARTIN ÜNİVERSİTESİ, BARTIN ORMAN FAKÜLTESİ, ORMAN MÜHENDİSLİĞİ BÖLÜMÜBARTIN ÜNİVERSİTESİ, BARTIN ORMAN FAKÜLTESİ, ORMAN MÜHENDİSLİĞİ BÖLÜMÜMEHMET AKİF ERSOY ÜNİVERSİTESİ, MÜHENDİSLİK-MİMARLIK FAKÜLTESİ, PEYZAJ MİMARLIĞI BÖLÜMÜAF Mercados EMI, Ankara, TürkiyeThe aim of this paper is to find drivers behind visitor’s participation in the use of urban forests and to explain the differences in co-operation in urban forest management with the help of game theoretic modeling. For this purpose, data regarding public urban forests of Turkey were collected and analyzed by various statistical methods. According to the principal component analysis, leading factors affecting the use of urban forest were, ordered from the most important to the least important: (1) forest versatility, (2) management intensity, (3) visitor services, (4) forest tranquility, and (5) forest activities. These five factors accounted for 71% of the total variance among the variables. Furthermore, multiple regression analyses showed that, especially in cities with an abundance of forests, the use of urban forests was not widespread, whereas urban forests were visited more in the settlements having a high number of young population and a large family size. The estimated game theoretic model on participation indicated that the availability of forest services among visitors was generally harmonious. It could be concluded that urban forestry has to focus, not only on increasing the number and size of urban forests, but also on educating all relevant social groups in society on how to use urban forests in a sustainable and responsible manner.https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/tjf/issue/26869/308629?publisher=iubuyeşil altyapıyönetimkentleşmerekreasyongreen infrastructuremanagementurbanizationrecreation |
| spellingShingle | Erdoğan ATMİŞ Hikmet Batuhan GÜNŞEN Cengiz YÜCEDAĞ Wietze LİSE Factors affecting the use of urban forests in Turkey Turkish Journal of Forestry yeşil altyapı yönetim kentleşme rekreasyon green infrastructure management urbanization recreation |
| title | Factors affecting the use of urban forests in Turkey |
| title_full | Factors affecting the use of urban forests in Turkey |
| title_fullStr | Factors affecting the use of urban forests in Turkey |
| title_full_unstemmed | Factors affecting the use of urban forests in Turkey |
| title_short | Factors affecting the use of urban forests in Turkey |
| title_sort | factors affecting the use of urban forests in turkey |
| topic | yeşil altyapı yönetim kentleşme rekreasyon green infrastructure management urbanization recreation |
| url | https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/tjf/issue/26869/308629?publisher=iubu |
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