Open AccessMultifunctional Golf Facilities as a Resource of Important Ecosystem Services in a Changing Urban Environment: Nordic Case Studies
Author(s) -
Dahl Jensen Anne Mette,
Caspersen Ole Hjorth,
Jensen Frank Søndergaard,
Strandberg Maria
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
international turfgrass society research journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2573-1513
DOI - 10.2134/itsrj2016.05.0424
Subject(s) - resource (disambiguation) , ecosystem services , environmental resource management , environmental planning , natural resource , quality (philosophy) , process (computing) , environmental quality , business , urban ecosystem , diversity (politics) , ecosystem , urban planning , ecology , engineering , environmental science , computer science , civil engineering , political science , computer network , biology , philosophy , epistemology , law , operating system
Multifunctional golf facilities are a resource of important ecosystem services in a changing urban environment. Several examples of multifunctional activities fulfilling environmental quality goals are available on Nordic golf courses. These examples should set the standard for many other peri‐urban golf courses. The handbook A Practical Guide to Assessing your Golf Course´s Multifunctional Potential (Jensen et al. 2015) is intended as a tool to visualize the multifunctional potential of golf facilities and to start the process of developing multifunctional values—for example, to contribute to the production or conservation of biological diversity, natural and cultural environments, and to the retention and expansion of ecosystem services in peri‐urban environments and the cultivated landscape. In this paper, we extract examples from Nordic multifunctional golf facilities and relate them to environmental quality goals.