[HTML][HTML] Social media data for conservation science: A methodological overview

T Toivonen, V Heikinheimo, C Fink, A Hausmann… - Biological …, 2019 - Elsevier
Improved understanding of human-nature interactions is crucial to conservation science and
practice, but collecting relevant data remains challenging. Recently, social media have …

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 …

Using social media to assess nature-based tourism: Current research and future trends

VT Da Mota, C Pickering - Journal of Outdoor Recreation and Tourism, 2020 - Elsevier
Social media is increasingly recognised as an important source of information about a wide
range of issues, including nature-based tourism. We assess the current state of the …

Uses and limitations of social media to inform visitor use management in parks and protected areas: A systematic review

EJ Wilkins, SA Wood, JW Smith - Environmental Management, 2021 - Springer
Social media are being increasingly used to inform visitor use management in parks and
protected areas. We review the state of the scientific literature to understand the ways social …

Spatio-temporal changes in water-related ecosystem services provision and trade-offs with food production

S Yang, Y Bai, JM Alatalo, H Wang, B Jiang… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2021 - Elsevier
A key challenge for sustainability is protecting water-related ecosystems and the services
(WESs) they provide while enhancing food security. Food production usually drives land use …

Using mobile device data to track the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on spatiotemporal patterns of national park visitation

JA Kupfer, Z Li, H Ning, X Huang - Sustainability, 2021 - mdpi.com
Effective quantification of visitation is important for understanding many impacts of the
COVID-19 pandemic on national parks and other protected areas. In this study, we mapped …

Effects of urban park spatial characteristics on visitor density and diversity: A geolocated social media approach

IT Chuang, F Benita, B Tunçer - Landscape and Urban Planning, 2022 - Elsevier
There is a growing body of literature investigating whether social media posts can improve
understanding spatial density in relation to urban park use and how park facilities play a role …

[HTML][HTML] Understanding changes in park visitation during the COVID-19 pandemic: A spatial application of big data

WL Rice, B Pan - Wellbeing, space and society, 2021 - Elsevier
In the spring of 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic changed the daily lives of people around the
world. In an effort to quantify these changes, Google released an open-source dataset …

Using social media to estimate visitor provenance and patterns of recreation in Germany's national parks

M Sinclair, M Mayer, M Woltering… - Journal of Environmental …, 2020 - Elsevier
Social media data are increasingly utilised as a low-cost alternative to visitor surveys in
characterising nature-based recreation. However, the information available on individual …

Next-generation visitation models using social media to estimate recreation on public lands

SA Wood, SG Winder, EH Lia, EM White… - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
Outdoor and nature-based recreation provides countless social benefits, yet public land
managers often lack information on the spatial and temporal extent of recreation activities …