Ronald András Kolcsár

• PhD
• Research Fellow at Institute for Soil Sciences, Centre for Agricultural Research

In recent years, numerous studies have reported the importance of the human perception of the qualities of urban green spaces. While we can measure the value of most ecosystem services quantitatively, the real values of the individual vegetation are often determined by human perception. Creating and maintaining vegetation in a way that it meets the...

Analysis of urban green space (UGS) provision is becoming increasingly important from an urban-planning perspective, as processes related to climate change tend to worsen the urban heat-island effect. In the present study, we aimed to map the UGS provision of Szeged, Hungary, using a GIS-based complex approach. Different age groups, especially the...

Since the collapse of communism, countries in Central and Eastern Europe have experienced significant socio-economic changes that have affected the urban landscape and the spatial organization of cities. These processes have also generated significant changes in the availability of urban green spaces for local residents, resulting in new forms of i...

A liveable city requires urban green spaces (UGS) in many locations, since such spaces have a direct impact on the quality of life and overall well-being of city dwellers. UGS provision analyses therefore have been attracting a number of researchers, practitioners and decision makers for recent years using various methodologies. In this study, we c...

Parks are essential public places and play a central role in urban livability. However, traditional methods of investigating their attractiveness, such as questionnaires and in situ observations, are usually time- and resource-consuming, while providing less transferable and only site-specific results. This paper presents an improved methodology of...

As a result of the growing population and the increasing extremes of Urban Heat Island, the value of urban green spaces is getting more recognized. These green spaces-especially urban parks-provide numerous ecosystem services to the local citizens creating a more livable environment. Many studies state that accessibility to these services has a key...

Individual perceptions are essential when evaluating the well-being benefits from urban green spaces. This study predicted the influence of perceived green space characteristics in the city of Szeged, Hungary, on two well-being variables: the green space visitors’ level of satisfaction and the self-reported quality of life. The applied logistic reg...