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Ridding, L.E., Hooftman, D.A.P., Redhead, J.W., Willcock, S. (2023). Weekly, monthly and yearly recreation demand maps for the UK. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre. (Dataset). https://doi.org/10.5285/bd3bf607-a3b2-423b-b07b-9c41e84746ee
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Weekly, monthly and yearly recreation demand maps for the UK
This research was funded by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) under research programme NE/W005050/1 AgZero+ : Towards sustainable, climate-neutral farming. AgZero+ is an initiative jointly supported by NERC and the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC).
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- Spatial representation type
- Raster
- Spatial reference system
- OSGB 1936 / British National Grid
Provenance & quality
Demand_i = Attractiveness_i × ∑ |j=1 to j= all| [(Population_j) / ((Frequency_ij × Traveling distance_ij)^∝)]
with i the target cell, j the source cell and the scaling factor α = 2.17, following Schläpfer et al. (2021); frequency is expressed as number of visits per year; travelling distance in kilometres.
The distance decay gravity function considers the number of visits to single target cells (i) depending on the "Population" size in a source cell (j), corrected by the "Traveling distance" from that source cell to the target cell and the "Attractiveness" of the target cell – the assumed relative likelihood of visiting that target cell. Traveling distance was estimated non-Euclidean, as a cost-weighted distance using the UK road network in 2.5 km cells and the distance to the nearest road within cells. The number of visits per year from the source cell to the target cell, i.e. the Frequency, is also included (weekly, monthly and yearly), since people tend to visit more often where there is a shorter distance to travel. Thus, for a given distance more predicted visits will arise from more densely populated cells compared with less populated cells, whereas at shorter distances more visits are predicted than at longer distances for a given source population density. For each target cell, the equation is summed over all potential source cells. See documentation accompanying the data for a detailed description of the data used for each parameter in the equation.
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Wallingford
Oxfordshire
OX10 8BB
UNITED KINGDOM
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Rothamsted Research
- Custodian
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NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centreinfo@eidc.ac.uk
- Publisher
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NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centreinfo@eidc.ac.uk
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- Topic categories
- environment
society - INSPIRE theme
- Environmental Monitoring Facilities
- Keywords
- accessibility , cultural ecosystem services , landscape , mapping , Mapping , natural areas protection , protected areas , recreation , UK
- Funding
- Natural Environment Research Council Award: NE/W005050/1
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council - Last updated
- 18 April 2024 15:03
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This dataset is available under the terms of the Open Government Licence
CITE AS: Ridding, L.E.; Hooftman, D.A.P.; Redhead, J.W.; Willcock, S. (2023). Weekly, monthly and yearly recreation demand maps for the UK. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre. https://doi.org/10.5285/bd3bf607-a3b2-423b-b07b-9c41e84746ee