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URBAN FORESTRY & URBAN GREENING
Volume 9, Issue 3, Pages 215-225Publisher
ELSEVIER GMBH, URBAN & FISCHER VERLAG
DOI: 10.1016/j.ufug.2010.01.002
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Crowding; Social stimulation; Stated choice; Trail use; Urban forest
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- Austrian Science Fund (FWF) [18158-G05]
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)
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Differences in trail preferences for social conditions of visitors to forests in Vienna and Sapporo were investigated in 2006 using a standardised image-based stated choice approach. On-site visitors to two comparable pen-urban forests - the Lobau Forest in Vienna, Austria (n = 373), and the Nopporo Forest in Sapporo, Japan (n = 256) - evaluated the same sets of computer manipulated images depicting 128 trail scenarios with different levels of social stimulation. Latent class segmentations, in three sub-segments of similar sizes, differentiated by partly opposite preferences for social conditions, were derived for both samples. A positive contribution of social stimulation to preferences was found for about 17% of Nopporo and 9% of Lobau respondents, while for close to 50% of Lobau respondents and 38% of Nopporo respondents very low levels of social stimulation were preferred. The results indicate that urban forests should be managed for users with a desire for low social densities as well as a denser social setting providing some levels of social stimulation. (C) 2010 Elsevier GmbH. All rights reserved.
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