Making Cultural Ecosystem Services Truly Cultural: Mapping Outdoor Experiences in Ukraine with Telegram
Year: 2025
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: Mapping and assessing cultural ecosystem services (CES) poses a great challenge of quantifying intangible benefits and values. This challenge becomes even more pronounced in context of war. This work-in-progress study introduces a novel, spatially explicit methodology that utilises the Telegram messenger, widely used in Ukraine, to democratise participatory mapping. Our approach aims to explore how Ukrainians value their time spent outdoors and how these perceptions have changed since the fulltime Russian invasion. By framing CES as a cultural experience without rigid categorisation, this study uses a location-based service to capture the diversity of outdoor experiences.
Institutions: Aalto University, Tampere University, University of Helsinki
Language: English
Subfield: Global and Planetary Change
Field: Environmental Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W6968020266
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