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People benefiting from potential new open space in the Southeast United States, large park analysis, half mile distance (2018)

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2018

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Warnell, K., 2020, People benefiting from potential new open space in the Southeast United States, large park analysis, half mile distance (2018): U.S. Geological Survey ScienceBase, https://doi.org/10.21429/k9k5-fz91.

Summary

Publicly accessible open spaces provide valuable opportunities for people to exercise, play, socialize, and build community. People are more likely to use public open spaces that are close (ideally within walking distance) to their homes, and larger open spaces often provide more amenities. To assess the potential benefit of creating new open space in the southeast US, we identified areas without access to open space within a certain distance category (in this case, 0.5 miles). Then, for each 30-meter pixel in the study area, we then totaled the number of people within 0.5 miles who do not currently have access to open space within that distance. This represents the number of people who would benefit from new open space created on [...]

Contacts

Point of Contact :
Katherine Warnell, Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions, Duke University
Originator :
Katherine Warnell
Metadata Contact :
Katherine Warnell, Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions, Duke University
Distributor :
U.S. Geological Survey, GS ScienceBase

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Purpose

This dataset was created as part of a project to identify priority areas for creation of new publicly accessible open space in the southeast United States. For formal identification of areas in which new open space would be most beneficial, see the regional priority Census block groups or regional priority county datasets. These can be used to identify where, at the regional level, new open space will provide the greatest benefit in terms of the number of people with increased access to open space. This benefit dataset can be used to adjust the method used to identify priority areas, for example by using a different spatial boundary. When using these data, please keep in mind that they are designed for landscape-level assessments; due to inaccuracies in the national-scale input datasets, they should not be used to identify specific sites for open space creation without additional local data. This information can be used to identify possible target areas for land conservation to provide access to open space, but field validation of potential project areas is necessary to assess suitability.
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