Mojca Nastran

TL;DR: In this article, a pan-European survey was conducted to assess how people use urban parks and how recreational patterns relate to respondents' sociocultural and geographical contexts (using 19 explanatory variables) and found that respondents share a general pattern in their recreational activities with a prevalence for the physical uses of parks, especially taking a walk.

TL;DR: In this article, a field survey revealed that biodiversity matters: people largely prefer higher plant species richness in urban greenspaces (i.e., parks, wastelands, streetscapes).

TL;DR: In this article, the authors identify the interrelationship between urban heat island magnitude (UHIM) and urban green infrastructure extent, shape, and distribution on European scale comparing different green space planning traditions (PFs).

TL;DR: Increased adaptive capacity of the SES around UGI is demonstrated by improved overall stakeholder salience, in particular for previously disempowered actor groups, increased number and strength of connections between stakeholders, and the consideration of a broader range of sustainable development objectives by stakeholders in their daily practice.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors identify and analyze the perceptions of local stakeholders in the Slovenian Kamnisko-Savinjske Alps Regional Park in designation in order to improve further stakeholder participation planning in the establishment and management of the park.