Title:

Data and code for analyzing unequal access to social, environmental, and health amenities in United States urban parks

Author(s):

Winkler, Richelle L.; Clark, Jeffrey A.G.; Locke, Dexter H.; Kremer, Peleg; Aronson, Myla F.J.; Hoover, Fushcia-Ann; Joo, Hogyeum Evan; La Rosa, Daniele; Lee, KangJae Jerry; Lerman, Susannah B.; Pearsall, Hamil; Vargo, Timothy L.V.; Nilon, Charles H.; Lepczyk, Christopher A.

Publication Year:

2024

How to Cite:

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Winkler, Richelle L.; Clark, Jeffrey A.G.; Locke, Dexter H.; Kremer, Peleg; Aronson, Myla F.J.; Hoover, Fushcia-Ann; Joo, Hogyeum Evan; La Rosa, Daniele; Lee, KangJae Jerry; Lerman, Susannah B.; Pearsall, Hamil; Vargo, Timothy L.V.; Nilon, Charles H.; Lepczyk, Christopher A. 2024. Data and code for analyzing unequal access to social, environmental, and health amenities in United States urban parks. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2024-0039

Abstract:

This data publication contains racial/ethnic population data within a 10-minute walk around each of 122,988 urban parks across the United States. These data represent information on the location of publicly accessible parks from the Trust for Public Lands ParkServe 2022 database. The ParkServe data also includes information about trail length, trail location, and playground size and location from 2022. Information on tree canopy comes from the Mult-Resolution Land Characteristics Consortium National Land Cover Database released in 2021 and which is based on imagery from 2019. Heat was calculated based on USGS Landsat data from June, July, and August of 2018, 2019, and 2020. Noise was based on modeled data from a 2014 National Parks Service Mapping Sound Project. Demographic information was aggregated to the block level excluding water using the United States 2020 Census. Data in this package include a comma-separated values (CSV) file with information about the characteristics of each park (e.g., size, number of trails, average land surface temperature), as well as transformed versions of this CSV file where parks are grouped by census division or other characteristics for the purpose of analysis. Additionally, CSV files are provided where the full data are summarized by both census division and racial/ethnic groups (e.g., average temperature of parks in division 1) as well as the full results of statistical tests such as two way ANOVAs. The R code included in this package allows the user to reproduce the figures and conduct all statistical analysis from the associated article.

Keywords:

boundaries; environment; location; society; Ecology, Ecosystems, & Environment; Geography; Landscape ecology; Environment and People; Quality of life; Recreation; Social values, ethics; Urban natural resources management; Inventory, Monitoring, & Analysis; Assessments; Natural Resource Management & Use; Ecosystem services; environmental justice; park access; park quality; racial equity; public health; urban parks; conterminous United States; CONUS

Related publications:

• Winkler, Richelle L.; Clark, Jeffrey A.G.; Locke, Dexter H.; Kremer, Peleg; Aronson, Myla F.J.; Hoover, Fushcia-Ann; Joo, Hogyeum Evan; La Rosa, Daniele; Lee, KangJae Jerry; Lerman, Susannah B.; Pearsall, Hamil; Vargo, Timothy L.V.; Nilon, Charles H.; Lepczyk, Christopher A. 2024. Beyond Proximity: Unequal access to social, environmental, and health amenities in urban parks. Nature Cities. [In review].

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