Description | Capacity of ecosystems to provide opportunities for nature-based recreation activities. Nature based recreation or “Physical and experiential interactions with natural environment” (CICES, https://cices.eu/) include a wide list of possible experience and activities such as Biking; boating; climbing; hiking; horseback riding, Walk the dog in a nice area; enjoy a local play ground; find an urban park nearby. ESTIMAP (Ecosystem Services Mapping Tool) nature-based recreation model was developed to map recreation opportunities at European scale. It is an ‘Advanced multiple layer LookUp Tables” model which measures the capacity of ecosystems to provide nature-based recreational and leisure opportunities. It is a “context based indicator”, to create hot spot maps for recreation activities and, simultaneously represent their territorial context. The original model (Zulian et al. 2013b; Paracchini et al. 2014; Liquete et al. 2016; Vallecillo et al. 2019), up to now applied at European scale was adapted to fit the urban setting. In previous applications the approach was used in urban context (Zulian et al. 2017), but only with reference to specific local applications, such as in Barcelona (Baró et al. 2016) or Trento (Cortinovis et al. 2018). Urban ESTIMAP-recreation consists of four basic sections: - (1) The Recreation Potential (RP), which estimates the potential capacity of ecosystems to support nature-based recreational activities based on land suitability for recreation and the natural, infrastructure and water features influence recreational opportunity provision;
- (2) The Opportunity map (OS), which expresses the presence of facilities to enjoy and reach areas with potential opportunities. (
- 3) The Recreation Opportunity Spectrum map (ROS), which combines the Opportunity map (OS) and the Recreation Potential (RP).
- (4) A potential accessibility map which represent the cumulative potential visitors based on a fuction of the distance and the total opportunities available within a defined distance.
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Links and references | - Baró F, Palomo I, Zulian G, Vizcaino P, Haase D, Gómez-Baggethun E (2016) Mapping ecosystem service capacity, flow and demand for landscape and urban planning: A case study in the Barcelona metropolitan region. Land use policy. doi: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2016.06.006
- Cortinovis C, Zulian G, Geneletti D (2018) Assessing Nature-Based Recreation to Support Urban Green Infrastructure Planning in Trento (Italy). Land 7(4): 112. doi: 10.3390/land7040112
- Liquete C, Piroddi C, Macías D, Druon J-N, Zulian G (2016) Ecosystem services sustainability in the Mediterranean Sea: Assessment of status and trends using multiple modelling approaches. Sci Rep. doi: 10.1038/srep34162
- Maes J, Zulian G, Günther S, Thijssen M, Reynal J (2019) Enhancing Resilience Of Urban Ecosystems through Green Infrastructure ( EnRoute ) Final Report. Luxembourg.
- Paracchini ML, Zulian G, Kopperoinen L, Maes J, Schägner JP, Termansen M, Zandersen M, Perez-Soba M, Scholefield PA, Bidoglio G (2014) Mapping cultural ecosystem services: A framework to assess the potential for outdoor recreation across the EU. Ecol Indic 45: 371–385. doi: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2014.04.018
- Vallecillo S, La Notte A, Zulian G, Ferrini S, Maes J (2019) Ecosystem services accounts: Valuing the actual flow of nature-based recreation from ecosystems to people. Ecol Modell 392(April 2018): 196–211. doi: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2018.09.023
- Zulian G, Paracchini M-L, Maes J, Liquete Garcia MDC (2013) ESTIMAP: Ecosystem services mapping at European scale. European Commision
- Zulian G, Stange E, Woods H, Carvalho L, Dick J, Andrews C, Baró F, Vizcaino P, Barton DN, Nowel M, Rusch GM, Autunes P, Fernandes J, Ferraz D, Ferreira dos Santos R, Aszalós R, Arany I, Czúcz B, et al (2017) Practical application of spatial ecosystem service models to aid decision support. Ecosyst Serv. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoser.2017.11.005
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