Abstract
Urban public parks can provide convenience for residents to get close to nature and provide places for daily ecosystem services. It is of practical and theoretical significance to choose urban public parks as the entry point to explore the changing trends and supply paths of urban residents’ daily ecosystem service consumption. Based on the government ‘s research? of urban public parks in Beijing from 1993 to 2018, this study explores the residents’ ecosystem services consumption demands and the contributions of park constructions to these demands. The results show that: (1) in the past 25 years, the frequency, duration, participation rate, and evaluation of people’s daily ecosystem service consumption have increased significantly. In other words, the ecosystem services demands are increasing. (2) different constructions of a park have distinct contributions to the increasing demands of ecosystem service consumption. The contributions from constructions of the natural landscape and the infrastructure have been in decline since 1993, yet they contribute the most to the demands of residents’ ecosystem services consumption until 2018. The contributions made by constructions of management and maintenance, and transportation around urban public parks have been on the rise and the significant points occurring after the 2008 Olympic Games. Our research proposes a method to determine the relation between the demands of residents’ ecosystem services consumption and the contributions of park constructions to these demands, which has significant implications for optimizing the constructions of urban public parks to better meet the demands of ecosystem services consumption.
Highlights
The world is experiencing an unprecedented urbanization trend that 60% of the land will be urban in 2030 [1]
We found that the number of urban public parks in Beijing providing free services to residents exceeds 90%
Contributions of park constructions to residents’ demands of ecosystem services consumption centered on the contribution of a single factor, while our paper is more comprehensive by reviewing, classifying and analyzing all the factors that may contribute to the daily ecosystem service consumption
Summary
The world is experiencing an unprecedented urbanization trend that 60% of the land will be urban in 2030 [1]. China’s urbanization rate, for instance, has risen rapidly from 17.92% to 60.60% in 1978–2019. In the process of urbanization, many natural ecosystems have been. Contributions of park constructions to residents’ demands of ecosystem services consumption. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript
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