<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">The green areas play a significant role in keeping the urban population healthy. Consequently, there has been a growing interest in the urban and peri-urban parks lately. The Nature Park Shumen plateau and Shumen City Park are an important green area for residents of Shumen city. The aim of this study was to make comparative analysis of the qualities of the Nature Park Shumen Plateau and the Shumen City Park as green spaces.For quality assessment 10 criteria were used. The criteria were grouped in four categories - Green space placement, Green space use, Environment and Biodiversity. Five-point Likert scale was used to determine satisfaction with each of the 10 criteria. Nine experts did the evaluation of the criteria.In category “Green space placement”, the Nature Park Shumen Plateau and the Shumen City Park had very similar evaluations however there were big differences in the individual criteria. According to the category “Green space use, both parks showed rather similar results. Concerning the category „Environment”, the Nature Park Shumen Plateau received slightly higher assessment and the category “Biodiversity” was ranked as twice higher.The results show that the Nature Park Shumen Plateau and the Shumen City Park possess good quality as a green area, as the Nature Park Shumen Plateau was higher assessed compared to the Shumen City Park.</abstract>

The green areas play a significant role in keeping the urban population healthy. Consequently, there has been a growing interest in the urban and peri-urban parks lately. The Nature Park Shumen plateau and Shumen City Park are an important green area for residents of Shumen city. The aim of this study was to make comparative analysis of the qualities of the Nature Park Shumen Plateau and the Shumen City Park as green spaces.For quality assessment 10 criteria were used. The criteria were grouped in four categories - Green space placement, Green space use, Environment and Biodiversity. Five-point Likert scale was used to determine satisfaction with each of the 10 criteria. Nine experts did the evaluation of the criteria.In category “Green space placement”, the Nature Park Shumen Plateau and the Shumen City Park had very similar evaluations however there were big differences in the individual criteria. According to the category “Green space use, both parks showed rather similar results. Concerning the category „Environment”, the Nature Park Shumen Plateau received slightly higher assessment and the category “Biodiversity” was ranked as twice higher.The results show that the Nature Park Shumen Plateau and the Shumen City Park possess good quality as a green area, as the Nature Park Shumen Plateau was higher assessed compared to the Shumen City Park.

Comparative analysis of Nature Park Shumen Plateau and Shumen City Park as green spaces

Acta Scientifica Naturalis

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The green areas play a significant role in keeping the urban population healthy. Consequently, there has been a growing interest in the urban and peri-urban...

Comparative analysis of Nature Park Shumen Plateau and Shumen City Park as green spaces

Published Online: Dec 07, 2018

Page range: 57 - 66

Received: Sep 01, 2018

Accepted: Nov 01, 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/asn-2018-0021

Keywords
Nature Park Shumen Plateau, Shumen City Park, quality of green spaces, assessment of green area

© 2018 Teodora Koynova, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Comparative analysis of Nature Park Shumen Plateau and Shumen City Park as green spaces

Published Online: Dec 07, 2018

Page range: 57 - 66

Received: Sep 01, 2018

Accepted: Nov 01, 2018

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/asn-2018-0021

KeywordsNature Park Shumen Plateau, Shumen City Park, quality of green spaces, assessment of green area

© 2018 Teodora Koynova, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Keywords
Nature Park Shumen Plateau, Shumen City Park, quality of green spaces, assessment of green area