Citizen Perception of the NBS in Valladolid city

Citizens’ perceptions, both individuals and communities, are essential when evaluating the well-being benefits from urban green spaces (Kothencz et al, 2017). Public and stakeholder perceptions of urban nature, and specifically the quality or functionality of nature, are critical to our understanding of the “value” people place on local environments (Priego et al., 2008).

Exploring visitors’ perceptions of green spaces is challenging as it depends on cognitive, affective, and behavioural components and, therefore, sensory perceptions are individually different (Kothencz et al, 2017).

This KPI measures identified green space characteristics by the two following well-being variables and one geolocation variable:

Green space visitors’ level of satisfaction. Directly related with the urban green space (UGS) quality.

Self-reported quality of life (QoL).

Frequency of green space visitors’ crowd-sourced geo-tagged data in NBS sites.

Visitors’ level of satisfaction and perceived QoL contributions of UGS are key individual-level measures that are subjectively affected by area-based green space characteristics.

This KPI will reflect on how people assess change in their local environments in terms of satisfaction, quality of life and citizens’ presence of urban green space (UGS) at a site (NBS), neighbourhood and city scale.