Abstract
Urban forests are confronted with high using pressure because of the increasing demand for recreation and accessibility of these settings. For that purpose, defining and managing recreational carrying capacity is considered as significant in ensuring ecological value’s and recreational satisfaction’s continuity. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the carrying capacity of Erzurum Urban Forest with respect to Level of Service (LOS) as a new management technique that focuses on service quality and visitor satisfaction. The data were obtained by self-administered questionnaire conducted with 166 visitors on weekends and holidays during summer season of the year 2014. Data were analyzed by dimensions/indicators of recreational satisfaction and socio-demographic characteristics with intent to identify tolerance range of visitors. The contribution and relative importance of each of the indicators to the overall satisfaction were analyzed by using Ordinal Logistic Model (OLM). The results indicated that the four indicators were at the greatest degree; “distance from picnic spot to toilets” and “quantity of children’s playground facilities” were decease of overall satisfaction while “distance from picnic spot to parking” and “level of shade at picnic spot” had a positive contribution to the overall satisfaction. The outputs from these analyses were used to calculate LOS. It was revealed that the level of service (0.40) in Erzurum Urban Forest was below the moderate level. Planning and managing strategies for optimizing the LOS were developed and discussed by considering these results.
Highlights
Outdoor recreations are widely recognized as an important element in people’s lives [1] [2]
The main purpose of this research is to analyze the carrying capacity of Erzurum Urban Forest with using Level of Service (LOS) as a new management technique that focuses on recreation experience [11]
The second goal is to identify indicators, which are more effective on overall visitor satisfaction in Erzurum Urban Forest and the third goal is to calculate LOS and bring forward a proposal on planning and management
Summary
Outdoor recreations are widely recognized as an important element in people’s lives [1] [2]. Forest managements strive to balance preservation and use to investigate the acceptable level of recreational use that can be sustained by the environmental resources of the recreational forest area [9]. This effort has often been mentioned as defining and managing recreational carrying capacity [10]. The main purpose of this research is to analyze the carrying capacity of Erzurum Urban Forest with using Level of Service (LOS) as a new management technique that focuses on recreation experience [11]. The second goal is to identify indicators, which are more effective on overall visitor satisfaction in Erzurum Urban Forest and the third goal is to calculate LOS and bring forward a proposal on planning and management
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