- Title
- The use and appreciation of botanical gardens as urban green spaces in South Africa
- Creator
- Ward, Catherine D, Parker, Caitlin M, Shackleton, Charlie M
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date
- 2010
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/181146
- Identifier
- vital:43702
- Identifier
- xlink:href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ufug.2009.11.001"
- Description
- There are few formal studies on the contribution of botanical gardens as urban green spaces, particularly within developing countries. Therefore, this paper reports on an assessment of the use and appreciation of botanical gardens as urban green spaces in South Africa. Users and staff were surveyed in six national botanical gardens. The gardens provided numerous benefits in terms of conservation, education and recreation. However, the people using the gardens were not demographically representative of the general population of the surrounding city or town. Generally, most of the visitors were middle- to old-aged, well-educated professionals with medium to high incomes. Most were white and English was their home language. There was an even gender representation. Most visited only a few times per year. The majority of users visited the gardens for recreation and psychological reasons rather than educational ones. However, the staff of each garden placed emphasis on education in the gardens and amongst surrounding schools. Most visitors appreciated the conservation dimensions of botanical gardens, and felt that there was insufficient public green space in their town or city. Understanding how people perceive and use the botanical gardens of South Africa is important to inform future research and strategies regarding the conservation of urban green space within a developing country.
- Format
- computer, online resource, application/pdf, 1 online resource (7 pages), pdf
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Urban Forestry and Urban Greening, Ward, C.D., Parker, C.M. and Shackleton, C.M., 2010. The use and appreciation of botanical gardens as urban green spaces in South Africa. Urban Forestry and Urban Greening, 9(1), pp.49-55, Urban Forestry and Urban Greening volume 9 number 1 p. 49 2010 1618-8667
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