Defining greenspace: Multiple uses across multiple disciplines

被引:470
作者
Taylor, Lucy [1 ]
Hochuli, Dieter F. [2 ]
机构
[1] Univ Sydney, Sch Life & Environm Sci, Room 410 Heydon Laurence Bldg A08, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
[2] Univ Sydney, Sch Life & Environm Sci, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
关键词
Greenspace; Nature; Urbanization; Biodiversity; Literature review; Green space; PHYSICAL-ACTIVITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; URBAN; HEALTH; BIODIVERSITY; ENVIRONMENT; PROVISION; ECOSYSTEM; ASSOCIATIONS; INCREASE;
D O I
10.1016/j.landurbplan.2016.09.024
中图分类号
Q14 [生态学(生物生态学)];
学科分类号
071012 ; 0713 ;
摘要
Greenspace research has been driven by an emerging interest in the impact that biodiversity and ecosystem function has on life in urban areas. Studies from multiple disciplines across the life, physical and social sciences investigate the interactions with or within greenspace, creating a wide range of potentially related, but disparate findings. In order to understand whether these unconnected findings might be integrated, it is important to be able to make comparisons and build meta-analyses. In a review of journal articles about greenspace, we found that less than half of the 125 journal articles reviewed defined what greenspace was in their study; although many articles implied a definition. In those that provided a definition, we identified two overarching interpretations of greenspace using six different definition types. Perhaps arising from how the term has been lexicalized, this suggests that researchers do not have the same understanding of greenspace and limits the ability of researchers to draw meaning from multiple contexts or create syntheses. Rather than suggest a single, prescriptive understanding of greenspace, we propose that researchers construct a definition of greenspace for the context of their research that utilises both qualitative and quantitative aspects. (C) 2016 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier B.V.
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