Social media data for environmental sustainability: A critical review of opportunities, threats, and ethical use

A Ghermandi, J Langemeyer, D Van Berkel, F Calcagni… - One Earth, 2023‏ - cell.com
Social media data are transforming sustainability science. However, challenges from
restrictions in data accessibility and ethical concerns regarding potential data misuse have …

Aligning Indigenous values and cultural ecosystem services for ecosystem accounting: A review

A Normyle, M Vardon, B Doran - Ecosystem Services, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Indigenous people have important relationships with the environment that must be
recognised in environmental management frameworks if these frameworks are to be …

Geolocated social media data counts as a proxy for recreational visits in natural areas: A meta-analysis

A Ghermandi - Journal of Environmental Management, 2022‏ - Elsevier
Geolocated social media data counts are increasingly used as proxy for number of visits in
natural areas, including their spatial and temporal distribution. This paper synthesizes the …

[HTML][HTML] What can geotagged photographs tell us about cultural ecosystem services of lakes?

U Schirpke, E Tasser, M Ebner, U Tappeiner - Ecosystem Services, 2021‏ - Elsevier
Natural and artificial lakes provide multiple cultural ecosystem services (CES), but they are
largely underrepresented in CES assessments, which mostly focus on individual large lakes …

Social media and deep learning capture the aesthetic quality of the landscape

I Havinga, D Marcos, PW Bogaart, L Hein, D Tuia - Scientific reports, 2021‏ - nature.com
Peoples' recreation and well-being are closely related to their aesthetic enjoyment of the
landscape. Ecosystem service (ES) assessments record the aesthetic contributions of …

Enriching social media data allows a more robust representation of cultural ecosystem services

N Fox, LJ Graham, F Eigenbrod, JM Bullock… - Ecosystem Services, 2021‏ - Elsevier
Images and textual metadata from social media sites such as Flickr have been used to
understand the drivers and distributions of cultural ecosystem services (CES). However …

Using Flickr data and selected environmental characteristics to analyse the temporal and spatial distribution of activities in forest areas

M Ciesielski, K Stereńczak - Forest Policy and Economics, 2021‏ - Elsevier
Forest areas, like other ecosystems, provide a range of ecosystem services. The most
common classification of ecosystem services distinguishes them into four categories …

Assessing the value of urban green infrastructure ecosystem services for high-density urban management and development: Case from the capital core area of Bei**g …

H Xu, G Zhao - Sustainability, 2021‏ - mdpi.com
Urban green infrastructure (UGI) includes green and blue open spaces that provide multiple
ecosystem services (ES) and the ecological and cultural benefits for people to hedge the …

[HTML][HTML] Using social media data to estimate recreational travel costs: A case study from California

C Nyelele, C Keske, MG Chung, H Guo, BN Egoh - Ecological Indicators, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Understanding the economic value of ecosystem services is necessary to facilitate
sustainable land use management, and to inform policy and decision making. However …

Valuing recreation in Italy's protected areas using spatial big data

M Sinclair, A Ghermandi, G Signorello, L Giuffrida… - Ecological …, 2022‏ - Elsevier
Protected areas offer unique opportunities for recreation, but the non-market nature of these
benefits presents a significant challenge when trying to represent value in the decision …