A5017785392- Recreation, Leisure, Wilderness Management
- Urban Green Space and Health
- Forest Ecology and Biodiversity Studies
- Indigenous Studies and Ecology
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Forest Management and Policy
- Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research
- Economic and Environmental Valuation
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Ecology and biodiversity studies
- Botany and Plant Ecology Studies
- Environmental Education and Sustainability
- Education, Healthcare and Sociology Research
- Wildlife-Road Interactions and Conservation
- Environmental Conservation and Management
- Environmental Philosophy and Ethics
- Social and Educational Sciences
- Children's Rights and Participation
- Lichen and fungal ecology
- Urban Heat Island Mitigation
- Forest Biomass Utilization and Management
- Sustainability and Climate Change Governance
- Outdoor and Experiential Education
- European and International Law Studies
- Animal and Plant Science Education
Norwegian Institute for Nature Research
2015-2024
Eastern Norway Research Institute
2019
The global response to the COVID-19 pandemic has brought with it significant changes human mobility patterns and working environments. We aimed explore how social distancing measures affected recreational use of urban green space during partial lockdown in Oslo, Norway. Mobile tracking data from thousands recreationists were used analyze high resolution spatio-temporal activity. estimated that outdoor activity increased by 291% relative a 3 yr average for same days. This increase was...
In Oslo, as elsewhere, the COVID-19 outbreak and following lockdown measures during spring 2020 led to increased use of urban green infrastructure. Whether this has more durable changes in recreation patterns remains an open question. We used mobile tracking data from 53,000 STRAVA users explore longevity increases recreational activity. compared activity levels relative a weather benchmark (i.e. baseline), defined one would have expected given time year prevailing conditions. Recreational...
Poorer citizens are often more exposed to environmental hazards due spatial inequalities in the distribution of urban blue-green space. Few cities have managed prevent and social inequality despite sustainable development strategies like compact city planning. We explore whether injustice exists a where one would least expect find it: with abundant nature, an affluent population governed by left leaning democratic council, aggressive densification strategy; Oslo, Norway. Green space was...
Recreational activity is the single most valuable ecosystem service in many developed countries with a range of benefits for public health. Crowdsourced recreational data increasingly being adopted management and monitoring urban landscapes, however inherent biases make it difficult to generalize patterns total population. We used in-situ observations questionnaires quantify accuracy Strava - widely outdoor app – Oslo, Norway. The precision which captured spatial (R2 = 0.9) temporal...
Based on a nationwide Norwegian survey among 3160 parents of children aged 6–12 years, this article identifies and discusses barriers for children's engagement with nearby nature. A set social factors related to time pressure are evaluated as more significant than environmental such accessibility, safety landscape quality. Children's free play in nature does not seem be an alternative target-orientated time-scheduled everyday life. Instead, give themselves, other adults public institutions...
The global response to the COVID-19 pandemic has brought with it significant changes human mobility patterns. We aimed explore how social distancing measures affected recreational use of urban green space during partial lockdown in Oslo, Norway. Mobile tracking data from thousands recreationists were used analyze high resolution spatio-temporal activity. estimated that outdoor activity increased by 291% relative a 3-yr average for same days. This increase was significantly greater than...
Children's nature experiences are to an increasing degree organized by adults and involve adult's presence. A qualitative study of the Norwegian nationwide Trekking Club explores how children interact with through events varying degrees adult management planning. The shows that free spontaneous play functions as a key more bodily, emotional sensuous interaction in contrast when engaged numerous planned activities. Spontaneous arises at where there fewer participants, which able stay one...
The aim of this paper is to describe the availability and use nearby outdoor spaces along a nature continuum by Norwegian children. We carried out nationwide survey 3 160 parents with children aged 6–12 years, using comprehensive web-based questionnaire. Results from show forests are most common space in residential areas Norway. In all, 97% state that their have access within walking or cycling distance home. When it comes suitability for play, 88% child, general, has good very...
The challenge to harmonize nature-based tourism with species conservation is important both from an economic, cultural and ecological perspective. One approach for understanding this interaction compare the spatiotemporal overlap between activities focal species’ space use, purpose identify areas, periods, conditions in which exerts highest negative impact. Here, we combine GPS data 66 wild reindeer on-site surveys of tourist (n = 13434 respondents at locations) trail use counters 99 sites)...
Abstract This study investigated public aesthetic preferences regarding naturally occurring dead and downed wood in Norwegian boreal forests. In an Internet-based survey conducted cooperation with a commercial polling company, 1082 respondents from south-eastern middle Norway were asked to rate 24 photos of forest settings. All had been taken at stand level primary or lightly altered semi-natural forests, although this was not disclosed the respondents. Survey participants showed clearly...
We have investigated public preferences for use intensity and visual quality of forest recreational infrastructure. Forest infrastructure covers five classes, along a continuum from unmarked paths to paved walkways. Altogether, 39 sites were categorized into the classes measured with automatic counters. A sample 545 respondents living in southeastern middle Norway asked rate 15 scenes 35 preconceptions settings. The path scenarios depicted as digitally calibrated photos that systematically...
Abstract Many publications make use of opportunistic data, such as citizen science observation to infer large‐scale properties species’ distributions. However, the few that data study animal ecology at a habitat level do so without accounting for spatial biases in records or using methods are difficult generalize. In this study, we explore exist observations and suggest an approach correct them. We first examined extent three wild ungulate species Norway by comparing them from GPS telemetry....
<ja:p>Conservation of forest biodiversity has brought about an interest in evaluating the naturalness forests, and to locate protect semi-natural old-growth forests Fennoscandian countries. However, it is not always clear how natural these really are, past management history affected their present structural composition. We studied relationships between cut stumps from historical logging activity (50â100 years ago) characteristics today a total 385 0.25 ha plots three boreal coniferous...
The sustainable management of vulnerable natural areas requires accurate measurement visitor flows, especially in mountain and protected areas. Pyroelectric sensors that detect the heat radiation emitted by human bodies are now commonly used many regions, including Scandinavia UK, to count pedestrian traffic both urban We four different tests investigate pyroelectric counters' accuracy winter conditions. Air temperature, distance sensor, clothing volume were all found affect counter error...
We investigated the relationship between site productivity and diversity of vascular plants, bryophytes, lichens, polypore fungi in forests based on species richness data 0.25 ha forest plots (grain size), selected from six 150–200 study areas (focus), spanning over a latitudinal distance 1350 km (extent) Norway. 1) searched for prevailing productivity‐diversity relationships (PDRs), 2) compared PDRs among taxonomic groups found different micro‐habitats, 3) effect increasing plot (grain)...