Assessing the Social Value of Ecosystem Services for Resilient Riparian Greenway Planning and Management in an Urban Community

Junga Lee, Byoung-Suk Kweon, Christopher D. Ellis and Sang-Woo Lee
Additional contact information
Junga Lee: Department of Forestry and Landscape Architecture, Sanghuh College of Life Sciences, Konkuk University, 225 Life Sciences Building, Seoul 05029, Korea
Byoung-Suk Kweon: Department of Plant Science and Landscape Architecture, University of Maryland, 2140 Plant Sciences Building, College Park, MD 20742, USA
Christopher D. Ellis: Department of Plant Science and Landscape Architecture, University of Maryland, 2144 Plant Sciences Building, College Park, MD 20742, USA
Sang-Woo Lee: Department of Forestry and Landscape Architecture, Sanghuh College of Life Sciences, Konkuk University, 303-1 Life Sciences Building, Seoul 05029, Korea

IJERPH, 2020, vol. 17, issue 9, 1-14

Abstract: Ecosystem services depend on the interrelation between people and the environment, and people are increasingly recognizing the social value of ecosystem services. Based on humans needs related to the values of ecosystem services, riparian greenways, properly planned and managed for resiliency, could provide great opportunities for social ecological change and transformation toward sustainability. We focus on the ecosystem service values of such greenways based on resilience in urban communities. The purpose of this study is to assess the social value of ecosystem services for resilient riparian greenway planning and management based on a survey of residents living near the Yangjaecheon riparian greenway in Gwacheon, South Korea. First, cluster analysis was performed with data from 485 completed surveys to identify different groups of respondents. Importance-performance analysis (IPA) was then applied to develop planning and management guidance for the riparian greenway based on group characteristics. Two distinct groups were identified: the Strong Social Value of Ecosystem Services group and the Neutral Social Value of Ecosystem Services group. Different distributions were found between the two groups based on gender and residency period, and significant differences were also found for age and familiarity with the riparian greenway. The results show what each group perceived to be important and how well the riparian greenway met their expectations regarding ecosystem services. These results indicate the perceived value of ecosystem services on the basis of the group characteristics, helping establish the direction for resilient riparian greenway planning and management approaches.

Keywords: cluster analysis; importance-performance analysis; perception; familiarity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (6)

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/17/9/3261/pdf (application/pdf)
https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/17/9/3261/ (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:gam:jijerp:v:17:y:2020:i:9:p:3261-:d:354996

Access Statistics for this article

IJERPH is currently edited by Ms. Jenna Liu

More articles in IJERPH from MDPI
Bibliographic data for series maintained by MDPI Indexing Manager ().