نوع مقاله : مقاله پژوهشی
نویسندگان
1 گروه محیط زیست، دانشکده منابع طبیعی و محیط زیست، دانشگاه فردوسی مشهد، مشهد، ایران
2 گروه علوم اجتماعی، دانشکده ادبیات و علوم انسانی، دانشگاه فردوسی مشهد، مشهد، ایران
چکیده
کلیدواژهها
عنوان مقاله [English]
نویسندگان [English]
Introduction: Nowadays, in line with urban and industrial civilization, human settlements are rapidly growing. As a result of urbanization, human relationships with nature have been weakened, which, in addition to loss of a wide range of benefits related to welfare and health, leads to the lack of benefits of humans from all kinds of ecosystem services. Recreation sites play a very important role in providing a wide range of ecosystem services, particularly ecotourism-related ecosystem services. The study examines the attitude of visitors towards ecotourism-related ecosystem services in two recreation sites of Kuh-Park and Haft-Howz. Identifying this information is necessary for the sustainability and development of urban and suburban green spaces.
Material and methods: The method of this research is quantitative and qualitative, the technique is a survey method, and the tool used is a researcher-made questionnaire. The population of the study was the visitors to two recreational sites, Kuh-Park and Haft-How. The statistics of the visitors of the two resorts on a weekly and hourly basis were obtained from the Parks and Green Space Organization of Mashhad Municipality, which was about 9400 in total. The sample size was calculated using Cochran's formula of 355 people. The analysis of the collected data was done in the SPSS software platform to investigate the attitude of the visitors towards ecotourism-related ecosystem services and also to test the hypotheses. Further, for a more detailed investigation, structural equation modeling was done to determine the contribution of each item in the construction of hidden variables in order to identify the most important variables.
Results and discussion: According to the results, women and adults, in terms of age groups, generally had a more positive attitude towards ecotourism-related ecosystem services. Among the education levels, in all classes of ecosystem services, people who have a diploma or bachelor's degree had a more positive attitude towards ecotourism-related ecosystem services. Attitudes toward the natural class of ecotourism-related ecosystem services in Haft-Howz and the physical class of ecotourism-related ecosystem services in Kuh-Park were more positive. However, the attitude towards social class of ecotourism-related ecosystem services was not significantly different in the two recreational sites. The results of structural equation modeling showed that bird species diversity, biodiversity, and the variety of special and rare species contributed the most to the construction of the natural class of ecotourism-related ecosystem services, respectively. Also, the largest contribution to the construction of the physical class of ecotourism-related ecosystem services was related to the possibility of cycling, the possibility of skating, and the possibility of running, and in the social class, it was related to the possibility of communication with friends, the possibility of spending time with family, relieving stress and providing relaxation. In general, in the construction of ecotourism-related ecosystem services, the social class with the highest factor load was in the first place, followed by the natural class and the physical class, respectively.
Conclusion: The two recreational sites were used by a wide range of people with different characteristics, and generally, visitors in the two recreational sites had a positive attitude towards ecotourism-related ecosystem services. Most Visitors had motivations related to mental and physical health to visit recreational sites due to the problems of urbanization, including pollution and stress. This study can provide an important insight to policy-makers about the attitude of visitors and the general policy for managing these two areas.
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