Who does not use urban green spaces and why? Insights from a comparative study of thirty-three European countries

• DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2023.104866
• Publication Date: 2023-08-12T04:05:35Z
• Authors: Edyta Łaszkiewicz; Jakub Kronenberg; Abdelbaseer A. Mo...; Dennis Roitsch; Rik De Vreese
• Keywords: Urban Green Space; Limiting

There is a large body of research on the benefits green spaces offer city dwellers and how people use urban (UGS). However, there much less information many do not UGS, who these are, why they resign from going there. This paper focuses understanding reasons that restrict UGS draws socio-economic demographic profile non-users. For this purpose, we surveyed N = 10,391 respondents 33 European countries (statistically representative at country level). Results show about 10% UGS. share non-users differs between 2% (Turkey) to 25% (United Kingdom). reveal statistically significant differences those across age, education level, residential location, demonstrating importance considering needs different groups when designing, planning managing Lack time interest, long distance where live are key limiting factors. The dominant for using enable us group hierarchical agglomerative clustering analysis. With study, contribute knowledge personal barriers prevent and, in particular, connect with typically listed as deprived it comes provision.