
Arne ArnbergerBOKU University | boku · Institute of Landscape Development, Recreation and Conservation Planning
Arne Arnberger
Assoc.Prof. Dr. Dipl.-Ing.
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Exposure to extreme heat is associated with both increased morbidity and mortality, especially in older people. Health burdens associated with heat include heat stroke, diabetes mellitus, hypertension, ischemic heart diseases, heart failure and arrhythmia, pulmonary diseases but also injuries, problems with activities of daily living, and mental di...
Farmland abandonment contributes to agroecosystem degradation and food crises. Sustainable farmland use requires a well-designed agri-environmental policy to provide farmers with incentives, including agroecosystem services apart from food production. One of these is recreation. Here, we focus on a Japanese terraced paddy land. We assessed seasonal...
A data book of outdoor activities in Austria and Japan
Research category: Bilateral Joint Project in 2005 and 2006 by JSPS (JSPS, 1-109 project)
Nature exposure can promote human health and well-being. Additionally, there is some, albeit mixed, evidence that this relationship is stronger for socio-economically disadvantaged groups (equigenesis). Using a cross-sectional survey of the Austrian population (N = 2300), we explored the relationships between both residential greenness and recreati...
昨今、観光分野や生態系サービスの評価・研究におい
て、ICT 技術、特に Instagram や Flickr 等のソーシャル
メディア・データの応用が急速に進んでいる。しかしなが
らソーシャルメディア・データは投稿者の投稿意図や頻度
に大きく影響を受けるため、モニタリングや管理に応用す
るには多くの懸念が指摘されている。
本発表ではまず携帯電話ビッグデータを用いて実施した
日本国内の研究事例を複数概観する。続いて、携帯電話
GPS データを用いて富士山の登山行動を分析した事例を
紹介する。
In environmental planning, it is normal to adjust that all environmental standards are similar throughout the world. This criterion is warranted in the case of environmental pollution problems. For example, all human beings should be assured of a healthy environment for their daily life. But in the case of quality of life, the standard should be ch...
The assessment of visitor understanding and perceptions of natural landscapes and attitudes towards functions of a river national park is important for the acceptance and success of park management. The study asked 426 visitors to the Donau-Auen (Danube Floodplains) National Park in Eastern Austria about their affinity to the national park brand, t...
Systematic monitoring of recreational use in vulnerable ecosystems is crucial to balance human needs and site capacities. Recently, publicly available digital data, including Global Navigation Satellite System-based Volunteered Geographic Information, gained attention as a potential resource depicting visitor movement. However, there is a need to c...
Increased recreational use of green spaces in and around cities leads to conflicts between user groups such as bikers and hikers. This study evaluates a broad set of measures to reduce such conflicts in the Uetliberg urban forest in Zurich. Data about conflict perceptions of hikers, bikers and people involved in both activities from three surveys w...
Green and blue urban infrastructure (GBI) has many positive functions often not recognised by residents (e.g. microclimate regulation, water retention, etc.). The question for urban planners who are aware of these functions when planning new GBI elements or revitalising existing GBI is how much they need to account for the preference heterogeneity...
UNESCO Biosphere Reserves (BRs) are internationally recognized model regions for sustainable development and used to conducting participation processes. This research explored the need and research design options for multi-channel participation approaches including digital systems for Austrian BRs. With the support of an online survey and a two-day...
Grasshoppers (Orthoptera, suborders Ensifera and Caelifera) are often used as bioindicators to assess the effects of human-induced land-use changes. However, such assessment is largely depending on the methods that provide an accurate estimation. In the present study, we compared grasshopper species richness and assemblages
on mountainous meadows i...
Landscape change occurs as a result of both human and natural forces. When changes are abrupt and drastic, they can negatively impact people who had become attached to a landscape’s prior character. Place-based models of landscape change assert that the strength of people’s attachments can influence their experience of and response to change. We ap...
This study examined the acceptability of different silvicultural treatments to restore pine barrens, an open, fire-dependent forest landscape type globally imperiled across the northern Great Lakes region of the United States and Canada. In an online survey, we asked family-forest owners (N = 466) in Northeastern Wisconsin about the acceptability o...
The provision of high-quality national park tourism services depends on an understanding of the role of the national park brand in visitors’ decision-making on visiting parks. The consideration of forest recreation and park brand awareness not only helps to increase the quality of visitors’ experiences but also assists in the management of natural...
Place attachment knowledge informs urban green space management to maximize positive visitor experiences. However, little is known about how place attachment differs between urban green space settings and users, particularly dog walkers or owners. This study explored place attachment and the better-known influence of variables such as motivation, s...
The participation of the local population in the planning and management of biosphere reserves is one of the preconditions for success. While numerous studies underpin its importance, few studies have addressed to what extent participation is desired by local residents and which factors determine the level of participation. A postal survey among lo...
Successfully managing heavily visited protected riverscapes requires information about visitor preferences for the social, biophysical and infrastructural attributes of river landscapes. This study analyzed the landscape preferences of 520 on-site visitors to the peri-urban Danube Floodplains National Park using an image-based discrete choice exper...
A pine barrens is an open, fire-dependent ecological community once prevalent in sandy areas of northern Wisconsin (USA). Efforts to restore pine barrens on public lands have been hampered in part because their character does not conform to many people’s ideals of Northwoods forest scenery, challenging land managers on how to balance social and eco...
Previous research has found higher levels of heatwave mortality and morbidity among urban residents with a migration background because of their social, health and environmental conditions. The purpose of the study was to investigate and compare heat induced changes in the outdoor recreation behaviours of Turkish migrants with those of non-migrants...
In den letzten vier Jahrzehnten hat sich das UNESCO-Programm Man and the Biosphere (MAB) und damit auch sein Weltnetz der Biosphere Reserves (WNBR) kontinuierlich weiterentwickelt und sich entsprechend den geänderten globalen nachhaltigkeitspolitischen Grundsätzen angepasst. Zwar gilt die Sevilla-Strategie mit ihren verpflichtenden Rahmenbedingunge...
Extensively managed grasslands, particularly in mountain regions,
are considered to be one of the most diverse agroecosystems worldwide. Their
decline due to land use abandonment affects the diversity of both plants and
associated pollinators. Extensive grasslands constitute an important habitat
type and food resource for hoverflies (syrphids); how...
The importance of place in landscape management and outdoor recreation has been prominent in the literature since the 1970s. As such, calls to incorporate place into the management of parks, forests, and other protected areas exist. However, little work explores how place attachment may complement existing management frameworks. Hence, the purpose...
This research seeks the factors that influence perceived crowding at Ohiopyle State Park, located in southeastern Pennsylvania (U.S.). While Ohiopyle is one of the most visited rivers for whitewater recreation in the eastern part of the U.S., and with a growing demand for this type of recreation, there is the need to assess crowding issues at Ohiop...
Pine barrens are open‐canopy ecological communities once prevalent on sandy soils across the northern Great Lakes Region of the U.S. and Canada, though fire suppression and plantation forestry have now reduced them to a few isolated areas. Efforts to restore pine barrens are underway on some public lands, but lack of knowledge on the social and eco...
Public urban green spaces are crucial for citizens’ wellbeing and are an important part of daily life in cities. To maximize their benefits to quality of life a thorough knowledge of citizens’ preferences and preference heterogeneity is crucial in the planning and design of urban green infrastructures. This study investigated visitors’ perception o...
Emerald ash borer (EAB), an invasive forest insect from Asia, has impacted vast areas in the United States and European Russia. To proactively understand the social impact of an EAB invasion in Europe and the USA, this study analyzed visitors’ preferences and preference heterogeneity for EAB-impacted forest scenarios in Vienna, Austria (n = 510) an...
Semi-natural, extensively managed, grasslands are among the most species-rich agroecosystems in Europe. However, they are threatened by abandonment. We investigated the response of semi-natural grasslands to cessation of mowing at ten sites in three UNESCO Biosphere Reserves in Switzerland and Austria. We assessed vegetation characteristics, topsoi...
Associations between biodiversity, human health and well-being have never been discussed with reference to agriculturally managed, species-rich mountainous meadows. We evaluated these associations between extensively managed (one mowing a year, no fertilization) and abandoned (no mowing since more than 80 years, no fertilization) semi-dry meadows l...
Traditionally managed mountain grasslands are biodiversity
hotspots in central Europe. However, socio-economic trends in agriculture
during the last decades have changed farming practices, leaving steep and remote
sites abandoned. Especially the abandonment of meadows is well known to
directly affect plant and insect diversity. However, not much is...
Recreation specialization is a leisure concept used frequently in outdoor recreation; applied here to further understand heterogeneity among whitewater boaters. This study used a sample of two low-use Oregon rivers (one managed by the U.S. Forest Service and one by the Bureau of Land Management). To provide for the best possible low-use experience,...
Bark beetle outbreak impacts are occurring at reportedly unprecedented levels. Despite previous research on the aesthetic and economic impacts of terrestrial pest infestations, minimal visitor behavioral response research exists. As beetle infestation progresses, both tree appearance and landscape change can negatively impact visitation and visitor...
Impacts of heat periods and stressful life increasingly impact urban population. Green infrastructure such as urban forests can reduce heat-related stress and provide a restorative experience. The study explored preferences of 160 urban woodland visitors in Vienna for, and their trade-offs between, structural components of forest stands using a dis...
We investigated how abandonment of mountain meadows influences bumblebees, true bugs and grasshoppers in two years in the Eisenwurzen region (Austria). We surveyed abandoned (20-40 years
old) and annually mown unfertilized meadows. Bumblebees were observed in 20 m2 plots, bugs were collected by sweep netting and grasshoppers identified with a sound...
Invasive alien species (IAS) can cause ecological and economic damages. To reduce or prevent these damages different management and prevention strategies aim to impede new establishments or a further spreading of IAS. However, for these measures to be successful, public knowledge of risks and threats of IAS as well as public support for eradication...
The study compared psychological and physiological health effects of short-term stays at managed and abandoned meadows, a mountain river, and an urban site of a dependent sample of 22 adult participants (mean age 27) during an 11-day field trip. The study found that pulse rates decreased during the stays at all the meadows and the urban site while...
Research on place attachment suggests that place identity and place dependence differ between recreationists with varying levels of specialization, recreating in different settings and with different resource proximities to their home. To further explore this relationship, we compared place attachment and recreation specialization of whitewater boa...
The study explored whether national-park affinity segments of tourists differ regarding their level of specialization in, attitudes towards, and satisfaction with, national parks between 2013 and 2014. The research categorized 429 overnight tourists to the Bavarian Forest National Park, Germany, into three affinity segments based on the role the na...
Recreation pressure on natural resource settings, as well as the demand for new wind-energy production sites, is growing. In addition, extensive outbreaks of tree-killing insects are globally increasing. Protected-area managers are facing conflicts on proper land uses in and around their areas, and need information on visitor preferences for develo...
Cognitive functioning and academic performance of pupils depend on regular breaks from classroom work. However, it is unclear which settings during such breaks provide the best environment to restore cognitive performance and promote wellbeing of adolescent pupils. Therefore, we investigated the effects of staying in different urban green spaces du...
Background:
Heatwaves form a serious public health threat, especially for vulnerable groups. Interventions such as active outreach programs, exposure reduction measures and monitoring and mapping of at-risk groups are increasingly implemented across the world but little is known about their effect.
Objectives:
To assess how vulnerable groups are...
Since the late 1990s, forest managers and researchers have been encouraged to incorporate place attachment into their projects and decision-making. Place attachment measures indicate the strength of the human-place bond and provide insight as to why people are attached, thus informing management decisions and approaches to visitor and community rel...
Despite the fact that urbanisation, population ageing and international migration constitute major societal developments of our time, little attention has been paid to studying them together in a comprehensive manner. In this paper, we argue that, when treating age and ethnicity as practical processes for addressing and identifying with social grou...
The outcome of assessments of the biodiversity of a taxonomic group often depend on the sampling method. The
choice of an adequate method is especially important for biomonitoring purposes. In this study, the effectiveness of two methods
of sampling syrphids (Diptera: Syrphidae) is compared: observation plot method vs. line transect, both sampled b...
Extensive outbreaks of tree-killing insects are increasing across forests in Europe and North America due to climate change and other factors. Yet, little recent research examines visitor response to visual changes in conifer forest recreation settings resulting from forest insect infestations, how visitors weigh trade-offs between physical and soc...
Many societies are faced with a growing prevalence of poor health because of stress and sedentary lifestyles. Natural and semi-natural landscapes are increasingly seen as restorative settings, compensating for negative psycho-physiological effects on humans. The extent of these positive effects, however, may depend on the landscape's degree of natu...
Grasslands are often managed with different intensities in the European Alps. Studies have shown that a medium management can benefit plant and animal biodiversity in these ecosystems. However, in recent decades abandonment of extensively managed meadows is an ongoing global challenge. Syrphids (hoverflies) have been recognized as a threatened grou...
ContextAbandonment of extensively managed meadows is an ongoing global challenge in recent decades, particularly in mountain regions, and directly affects plant diversity. However, the extent to which plant diversity further affects associated insect pollinators or herbivores is little investigated. Objectives
We focused on the effects of abandonme...
Extensive outbreaks of the emerald ash borer (Agrilus planipennis; EAB), an invasive forest insect, are having serious impacts on the cultural ecosystem services of urban forests in the United States and other countries. Limited experience with how such outbreaks might affect recreational opportunities prompted this investigation of visitors to a s...
The Salza River is located in the Alpine Nature and Geopark Styrian Eisenwurzen and is used heavily for whitewater recreation. One of the main goals of protected area management is to provide opportunities for outdoor recreation to maintain or enhance the quality of visitor experience. This study explored whitewater recreationists' crowding percept...
Researchers often measure human–place bonds via place attachment scales across a variety of settings. However, scale use does not always include an evaluation of the scales’ psychometric properties, especially in multisite studies. Failure to consider a place attachment scale’s measurement properties makes both validity and reliability assumptions...
During the past four decades UNESCO's Man and the Biosphere (MAB) Programme and its World Network of Bio-sphere Reserves repeatedly went through significant adaptation and modernization processes. The Seville Strategy and the Statutory Framework (UNESCO 1996), the Madrid Action Plan (UNESCO 2008) and the MAB Strategy 2015–2025 (UNESCO 2016a), follo...
Zusammenfassung
Gästezahlen bilden eine Grundlage für die Berechnung der ökonomischen Wirkungen des Tourismus und für die Entwicklung von Besuchermanagementstrategien der Gebietsverwaltungen. Viele Schutz- und Erholungsgebiete, vor allem jene, die in der Stadt oder am Stadtrand liegen, haben neben der (tages)touristischen auch eine Wohnumfeldfunkti...
Whitewater boaters often choose a river based on their preferences for attributes important for their trip experience. This study explored whether preferences and tradeoffs of whitewater boaters for social, resource, and managerial attributes of riverscapes differ among a high and a low use river in the United States by employing a stated choice ap...
Urban green infrastructure provides a number of cultural ecosystem services that are greatly appreciated by the public. In order to benefit from these services, actual contact with the respective ecosystem is often required. Furthermore, the type of services offered depend on the physical characteristics of the ecosystem. We conducted a review of p...
Heat affects cities because of the urban heat island effect and will increasingly affect these areas due to ongoing urbanization and climate change. Among those most vulnerable towards urban heat are the elderly. This study analysed coping behaviours to avoid heat stress among 193 elderly residents living independently in urban heat islands of Vien...
One can view peoples’ perspectives of parks and protected areas along a continuum ranging from anthropocentric to bio-centric. Those who fall toward the anthropocentric end tend to view parks and protected areas as places in which to recreate, while those on the bio-centric end of the scale often see the same settings as places to be preserved; whe...
This chapter investigates differences and similarities between US and selected non-US natural resource planning issues. Case studies from Austria and Germany are used to focus on management philosophies and their origins and how these may impact recreation planning at both a macro and micro level. Many differences between the US and the Central Eur...
This study explored visitors’ preferences for social conditions of trail use in urban forests. It is important to understand the heterogeneous nature of visitor preferences because the recreational use of urban forests is characterized by multipurpose uses with different visiting motivations. To understand preference heterogeneity, this study used...
Abschlussbericht zum Sozioökonomischen Monitoring 2014-2015
Seit der Gründung im Jahr 2004 gehört neben dem ökologischen Monitoring auch das sozioökonomische Monitoring zu einem fest verankerten Arbeitsfeld innerhalb der Forschungs- und Managementaufgaben der Nationalparkverwaltung. So wurden im Rahmen eines Besuchermonitorings in den Jahren 2004 u...
Recent research has indicated that the younger generations may be disconnected from nature and even show some dislike for natural conditions. This study addressed adolescents’ preferences for riverscapes with varying fluvial dynamics as recreational settings. A stated choice survey with digitally calibrated river scenarios asked Austrian pupils (N...
Climate change is projected to further increase heat waves in number, intensity and duration over most land areas in the twenty-first century. Among the urban population persons with migrant background are particularly considered to be at risk during heat waves due to the intersection of several risk factors: social status (poverty, manual labour),...
A supportive attitude of residents towards protected areas is crucial for successful implementation and management, particularly in densely populated regions such as Central Europe. While previous studies have revealed that emotional and cultural drivers, as well as information level and group membership, can influence attitudes towards protected a...
User satisfaction has frequently been used to evaluate outdoor recreationists’ quality of the experience. Similarly, recreational conflict has been important in previous literature as an approach to providing for a better understanding of conflict. This article examined potential conflict between whitewater boaters and anglers on the North Umpqua R...
Many urban societies are faced with a growing incidence of poor health because of mental stress and sedentary lifestyles. Urban green spaces are increasingly seen as a counter to hectic city living and as restorative settings. This study investigates the preferences for site characteristics green-space visitors have when they are seeking stress rel...
Urban forest managers regularly deal with recreational trail impacts and dissatisfied trail users. This exploratory study examined the extent to which various objectively measured recreational impacts on urban forest trails are perceived by trail users, and how perceptions affect the quality of their experience. The influence of age and education w...
Ever since the 2003 heat wave that caused 70,000 heat deaths, the dramatic consequences of climate change and rising temperatures in Europe have become an intensively researched topic. During heat waves, the older urban adult population is at highest risk. The STOPHOT project is the first investigation in Austria to establish a comprehensive knowle...
Management concepts for sustainable tourism development tackle the challenges
of preventing the use of natural, socio-cultural and economic resources from
turning into the abuse of such resources. Their major aim is keeping the balance
between visitor numbers and the welfare of the local environment and
population. In 1997, a new approach was elabo...