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Exploring, quantifying and mapping cultural ecosystem services of urban green infastructure – case study city of Zagreb, Croatia

Growing body of evidence links urban green infrastructure (GI) and quality of life of residents. With prevalence of cultural landscapes in Europe, demand for cultural ecosystem services increases as well. Cultural ecosystem services are defined as “the nonmaterial benefits people obtain from ecosystems through spiritual enrichment, cognitive development, reflection, recreation, and aesthetic experiences”. There is also increasing demand for including public in decision making related to planning and management of urban GI. Participatory mapping of cultural ecosystem services aims to collect information on how people perceive these services and disservices from urban GI in a way that it can be linked to specific location and assessed. This exercise helps identifying and quantifying cultural ecosystem services linked to particular type of GI that later serves as an input for planning and management. In this particular study mixed methodology is used to identify, quantify and map cultural ES and disservices from urban GI based on public perception, explore what affects the perception, and to give recommendation on how to include results of participatory mapping in current planning and management of urban GI. The study will be conducted in the city of Zagreb, the largest city in Croatia with a three-quarter million population. First phase includes series of focus groups with residents in each city district that would serve as orientation and input for the second phase, a webGIS/PPGIS survey. Since we are still in the first phase of the study, we will show results of several focus groups with residents. The benefit of the study is that it aims to grasp various cultural ecosystem services and disservices of urban GI and it is focused on entire city area, not only one particular park or forest. It includes and goes beyond recreational services, as the most studied cultural ecosystem service, and focuses as well on those that are not often used in similar studies.

Cultural Ecosystem Services, Disservices, Urban Green Infrastructure, Perceptions, Focus Groups, Participatory Mapping, City of Zagreb

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