Characterizing the Demand Side of Urban Greening to Inform Urban Planning -A Discrete Choice Experiment in the Paris Metropolitan Region

Qualifier la demande de renaturation urbaine pour mieux renseigner les politiques d’aménagement des villes - une expéérience de choix discrets en Ile-de-France

Mai-Thi Ta (), Léa Tardieu () and Harold Levrel
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Mai-Thi Ta: CIRED - Centre International de Recherche sur l'Environnement et le Développement - Cirad - Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement - EHESS - École des hautes études en sciences sociales - AgroParisTech - ENPC - École nationale des ponts et chaussées - Université Paris-Saclay - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Léa Tardieu: UMR TETIS - Territoires, Environnement, Télédétection et Information Spatiale - Cirad - Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement - AgroParisTech - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - INRAE - Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement

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Abstract: As the multiple benefits from exposure to urban green spaces (UGSs) are increasingly acknowledged, urban greening policies have become an important component of the urban political agenda. Most targeting strategies of future UGS development are based on the pursuit of an equal distribution of UGSs among residents. These strategies implicitly assume that the development of any type of UGS will have the same effect on citizens' well-being, provided that their access is guaranteed. This paper questions this assumption and addresses the demand side of urban greening policies by evaluating which UGS characteristics are sought by urban dwellers. We apply a travel time-based discrete choice experiment (DCE) to capture the trade-offs between the UGS characteristics (e.g., tree cover, size, presence of water, accessibility) and the travel time that citizens are willing to spend to reach a hypothetical UGS compared to a "stay at home" option. We discover that all the respondents have a disutility in choosing the "stay at home" option instead of a scenario of UGS development, especially when the UGS contains trees. This disutility is however much higher among outer suburb inhabitants living in municipalities with relatively lower urbanization levels and rent prices. Further, the global time budget dedicated to reach a UGS is much lower for inner-city residents compared to outer-suburb inhabitants. Inhabitants living in less urbanized areas place a higher value on a large UGS (> 1.5 hectares), while residents living in city centres do not seem to be influenced by this UGS characteristic. Our results suggest that strategies based on access criteria would benefit from being differentiated according to urbanization levels of cities, as the inhabitants of city centres value nearby and multiple UGSs but not necessarily large UGSs while the inhabitants of suburbs value larger UGSs, even when located farther away. urban green spaces-recreational services-urban greening policies-preference heterogeneity-choice experiment-green infrastructures

Keywords: urban green spaces; recreational services; urban greening policies; preference heterogeneity; choice experiment; green infrastructures; espaces verts urbains; services récréatifs; végétalisation; hétérogénéité des préférences; expérience de choix; infrastructures vertes (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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Published in Revue d'économie politique, 2022, 2022 (6), pp.907-950. ⟨10.3917/redp.326.0907⟩

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