‘This is my magical place here’. Linking cultural ecosystem services and landscape elements in urban green spaces

Marta Derek, Sylwia Kulczyk, Tomasz Grzyb and Edyta Woźniak

Ecosystem Services, 2025, vol. 71, issue C

Abstract: This paper aims to understand how cultural ecosystem services (CES) are shaped in public urban green spaces. Landscape, understood as a hierarchical complex of abiotic, biotic, and human-made elements, is considered as the basis of CES supply. Since CES are intrinsically linked to the on-site experience, we invited 27 experts to ‘walk and talk’ about landscape in five distinctive Public Urban Green Spaces (PUGS) in Warsaw. This qualitative approach allowed us to observe the process of co-production of CES by addressing three specific research aims: (1) to identify the relationships between biotic, abiotic, and human-made elements in PUGS; (2) to establish links between different types of CES provided by PUGS; and (3) to explore the links between CES and specific landscape elements within PUGS.

Keywords: Cultural ecosystem services; Urban greenery; Urban parks and forests; Landscape elements; Walking interviews; Warsaw (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoser.2025.101699

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