Whom Do Urban Agriculture Parks Provide Landscape Services to and How? A Case Study of Beijing, China
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Methods
2.1. Study Area and Sampling
2.2. User Profiles
2.3. User Demand of Landscape Services and Preference Analysis
2.3.1. Unit of Landscape Services Assessment
2.3.2. Landscape Services Demand Assessment
2.3.3. Preference Analysis
2.4. Match Between Supply and Demand
2.4.1. Supply Assessment
2.4.2. Budgets of Supply and Demand
3. Results
3.1. Users’ Characteristics in Various Types of UAPs
3.2. Services Demand and Preference Analysis in Little Donkey Farm
3.2.1. Landscape Structure
3.2.2. Demand of Landscape Services
3.2.3. Relationship between Users’ Characteristics and Service Demand
3.3. Budget of Supply and Demand
3.3.1. Supply of Landscape Services
3.3.2. Match Between Supply and Demand
4. Discussion
4.1. Differences of User Profiles
4.2. Implications of Landscape Services Analysis of UAPs
4.3. Limitation and Future Research
5. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
Appendix A
Landscape Classification | Land Cover | Function |
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Vegetable plot planted by member | Farmland | Land where members grow their own vegetables |
Vegetable plot planted by manager | Farmland | Administrators plant fresh vegetables for members |
Vegetable greenhouse | Farmland | A land for growing vegetables in a greenhouse |
Apple orchard | Garden | A garden for planting apple trees |
Woods | Forest land | A land that only grows trees |
Woods and grass | Forest land | A land that grows trees and is covered with flowers and herbal plants |
Shrubs | Forest land | A land that grows only shrubs |
Shrubs and grass | Forest land | A land that grows only shrubs and is covered with flowers and herbal plants. |
Woods and shrubs | Forest land | Land covered by trees and shrubs |
Woods, shrubs, and grass | Forest land | A land planted with trees and shrubs and covered with flowers and plants |
Dining room | Commercial land | The land for providing catering services to visitors |
Site of activity | Administration and public services | Land used for activities organized by agricultural administrators or members |
Field classroom | Administration and public services | Land used by agricultural administrators for teaching of agricultural knowledge |
Rest area | Administration and public services | A small patch to take a break from agriculture activities |
Service center | Administration and public services | Land used by agricultural managers for instruction, self-promotion, etc. |
Tool house | Land for warehouses | For reserve tools and materials |
Zoo | Administration and public services | Land used for raising various animals and for visitors’ viewing (the donkey where Little Donkey Farm’s name comes from lives there) |
Filed road | Land for roads and transport facilities | Roads for cultivation and rest |
The road for viewing | Land for roads and transport facilities | Roads for visitors’ viewing |
Landscape lake | Water and water facilities’ land | The lake formed by artificial excavation to provide beautiful waterscape |
Unused land | Other sites | Has not been used |
Wetland | Other sites | A natural or artificial marsh near the lake |
Beijing–Miyun diversion channel | Water and water facilities’ land | A channel used to transport water from reservoir to city |
Kiwifruit orchard | Garden | A garden for planting kiwifruit trees |
Other vegetable field | Farmland | Providing vegetables for sales or the dining room |
Floodway | Water and water facilities’ land | A channel used to help increase the flood-fighting capacity by helping the main channel to disperse flood pressure |
Compost heap | Land for warehouses | The land used for stacking cow dung and dead branches and leaves |
Parking lot | Land for roads and transport facilities | Land for parking |
Storage room | Land for warehouses | For reserve materials |
Landscape Structure | Education | Exercise | Natural Experience | Social Cohesion | Recreation | Countryside life | Scenery Services |
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Vegetable plot planted by member | 3.21 | 4.43 | 4.29 | 3.36 | 4.20 | 4.29 | 2.39 |
Vegetable plot planted by manager | 2.57 | 1.12 | 3.54 | 2.55 | 2.12 | 3.24 | 2.23 |
Vegetable greenhouse | 2.23 | 2.87 | 2.89 | 2.64 | 1.39 | 2.87 | 1.54 |
Picking area | 2.97 | 3.13 | 3.76 | 3.65 | 4.02 | 2.77 | 1.63 |
Kiwifruit orchard | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Apple orchard | 0.43 | 1.22 | 2.26 | 0.00 | 1.97 | 1.83 | 2.11 |
Woods | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.29 | 0.00 | 1.12 | 0.34 | 3.56 |
Woods and grass | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.53 | 0.00 | 1.41 | 0.75 | 4.03 |
Shrubs | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.31 | 0.00 | 1.15 | 0.43 | 2.96 |
Shrubs and grass | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.63 | 0.00 | 1.52 | 0.92 | 3.43 |
Woods and shrubs | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.87 | 0.00 | 1.71 | 1.24 | 3.76 |
Woods, shrubs, and grass | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.93 | 0.00 | 2.02 | 1.48 | 3.82 |
Dining room | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.96 | 4.38 | 1.42 | 1.25 | 0.00 |
Warehouse | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Compost place | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Activity square | 0.83 | 0.92 | 0.15 | 3.53 | 4.31 | 0.00 | 2.25 |
Field classroom | 0.79 | 0.00 | 1.74 | 0.93 | 1.03 | 0.00 | 0.71 |
Rest area | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 4.02 | 4.79 | 3.12 | 3.33 |
Agricultural service area | 3.85 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Tool room | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Zoo | 2.41 | 0.00 | 3.18 | 2.42 | 2.30 | 1.16 | 0.12 |
Field Road | 0.00 | 0.00 | 3.13 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 2.86 |
The rood for viewing | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.89 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 2.14 |
Parking lot | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Landscape lake | 0.00 | 0.00 | 2.63 | 0.53 | 0.84 | 0.00 | 0.21 |
Headrace channel | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Flood discharge channel | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Unused land | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Wetland | 0.00 | 0.00 | 2.63 | 0.53 | 0.84 | 0.00 | 0.21 |
Landscape Structure | Education | Exercise | Natural Experience | Social Cohesion | Recreation | Countryside Life | Scenery Services |
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Vegetable plot planted by member | 4.38 | 5.00 | 4.50 | 4.75 | 4.38 | 4.50 | 3.25 |
Vegetable plot planted by manager | 2.50 | 4.13 | 4.13 | 4.00 | 3.00 | 3.38 | 3.00 |
Vegetable greenhouse | 1.88 | 3.25 | 3.84 | 3.88 | 2.38 | 4.38 | 2.50 |
Picking area | 2.00 | 3.50 | 4.50 | 5.00 | 2.38 | 4.50 | 3.13 |
Kiwifruit orchard | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Apple orchard | 0.50 | 2.50 | 3.21 | 0.00 | 1.00 | 2.63 | 3.21 |
Woods | 0.00 | 0.00 | 3.63 | 0.00 | 4.00 | 2.75 | 4.13 |
Woods and grass | 0.00 | 0.00 | 2.92 | 0.00 | 2.63 | 1.38 | 2.75 |
Shrubs | 0.00 | 0.00 | 2.79 | 0.00 | 1.63 | 2.25 | 2.88 |
Shrubs and grass | 0.00 | 0.00 | 2.42 | 0.00 | 2.00 | 2.38 | 3.29 |
Woods and shrubs | 0.00 | 0.00 | 3.09 | 0.00 | 2.63 | 2.88 | 3.71 |
Woods, shrubs and grass | 0.00 | 0.00 | 3.38 | 0.00 | 3.88 | 2.88 | 4.17 |
Dining room | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 4.88 | 2.13 | 3.50 | 0.00 |
Warehouse | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Compost place | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Activity square | 2.00 | 3.88 | 3.63 | 4.50 | 2.75 | 2.38 | 1.84 |
Field classroom | 1.38 | 0.00 | 3.04 | 3.38 | 2.00 | 0.00 | 2.46 |
Rest area | 0.00 | 0.00 | 2.92 | 4.38 | 3.00 | 4.13 | 3.00 |
Agricultural service area | 2.13 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Tool room | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Zoo | 2.38 | 0.00 | 2.96 | 2.50 | 2.00 | 3.38 | 1.96 |
Field Road | 0.00 | 0.00 | 3.88 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 2.13 |
The rood for viewing | 0.00 | 0.00 | 3.88 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 3.71 |
Parking lot | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Landscape lake | 0.00 | 0.00 | 2.34 | 0.00 | 1.13 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Headrace channel | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Flood discharge channel | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Unused land | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.88 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Wetland | 0.00 | 0.00 | 2.67 | 0.00 | 0.50 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Appendix B
- Obtain knowledge about agriculture (education service). Score:
- Do some physical exercises (exercise service). Score:
- Natural experience (natural experience service). Score:
- Enhance the connection to friends and families (social cohesion). Score:
- Relax and recreation (recreation service). Score:
- Seeking a countryside life (countryside life service). Score:
- Enjoy the beautiful views (scenery service). Score:
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Landscape Services | Definition |
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Education | Enables people to consciously increase their knowledge about agricultural culture through popular science information boards and close contact with agriculture landscape. |
Exercise | Improves health and physical strength through agricultural activities. |
Natural experience | Provides a place that makes people feel connected to nature. |
Social cohesion | Enables people to enhance their relationship with companions through cooperation in agricultural cultivation. |
Recreation | Creates a suitable atmosphere through landscaping to regulate and relax people’s bodies and minds. |
Countryside life | Provides a place away from the hustle and bustle of the city for a while, and allows self-sufficiency. |
Scenery services | The landscape created is natural and beautiful. |
Indicators | Education | Exercises | Natural Experience | Social Cohesion | Recreation | Countryside Life | Scenery |
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SIMI | √ | √ | |||||
LSI | √ | √ | √ | ||||
CA | √ | √ | |||||
LPI | √ | ||||||
MSI | √ | ||||||
Questionnaires | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ |
Types of Prosperities | Categories | Total (%), n = 345 |
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Income (CNY) | 0–6000 | 0.0 |
6000–12,000 | 27.7 | |
12,000–18,000 | 42.6 | |
18,000–24,000 | 16.6 | |
24,000–30,000 | 12.5 | |
Above 30,000 | 0.7 | |
Education | Technical secondary school | 3.5 |
College degree | 7.0 | |
Bachelor’s degree | 57.0 | |
Master’s degree | 23.3 | |
Doctor’s degree | 9.3 | |
Age | 21–30 | 9.3 |
31–40 | 31.4 | |
41–50 | 39.5 | |
51–60 | 14.0 | |
>60 | 5.8 |
Age | Education | Frequency of Visiting per Week | The Duration of Stay | The Way to Visit the Garden | Companion | |
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Education | 0.003 | 0.385 ** | 0.038 | −0.094 | 0.057 | −0.047 |
Exercise | 0.446 ** | 0.013 | −0.136 | 0.323 ** | −0.230 * | −0.216 * |
Natural experience | 0.113 | 0.201 * | 0.057 | 0.071 | −0.180 | 0.042 |
Social cohesion | 0.140 | 0.001 | −0.066 | 0.287 ** | −0.021 | −0.037 |
Recreation | 0.290 ** | 0.097 | −0.026 | 0.169 | −0.003 | 0.002 |
Countryside life | 0.341 ** | 0.112 | −0.071 | 0.297 ** | −0.183 * | −0.126 |
Scenery service | 0.025 | 0.153 | 0.196 * | 0.285 ** | −0.121 | 0.041 |
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Xie, M.; Li, M.; Li, Z.; Xu, M.; Chen, Y.; Wo, R.; Tong, D. Whom Do Urban Agriculture Parks Provide Landscape Services to and How? A Case Study of Beijing, China. Sustainability 2020, 12, 4967. https://doi.org/10.3390/su12124967
Xie M, Li M, Li Z, Xu M, Chen Y, Wo R, Tong D. Whom Do Urban Agriculture Parks Provide Landscape Services to and How? A Case Study of Beijing, China. Sustainability. 2020; 12(12):4967. https://doi.org/10.3390/su12124967
Chicago/Turabian StyleXie, Miaomiao, Manyu Li, Zhaoyang Li, Meng Xu, Yan Chen, Ran Wo, and De Tong. 2020. "Whom Do Urban Agriculture Parks Provide Landscape Services to and How? A Case Study of Beijing, China" Sustainability 12, no. 12: 4967. https://doi.org/10.3390/su12124967