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Residents' Yard Choices and Rationales in a Desert City: Social Priorities, Ecological Impacts, and Decision Tradeoffs

机译：荒漠城市居民的院子选择和理由：社会优先事项，生态影响和决策权衡

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As a dominant land use in urban ecosystems, residential yards impact water and other environmental resources. Converting thirsty lawns into alternative landscapes is one approach to water conservation, yet barriers such as cultural norms reinforce the traditional lawn. Meanwhile, the complex social and ecological implications of yard choices complicate programs aimed at changing grass and other yard features for particular purposes. In order to better understand individual landscape decisions, we qualitatively examined residents' rationales for their preferred yard types in the desert metropolis of Phoenix, Arizona. After briefly presenting landscape choices across two survey samples, the dominant reasons for preferences are discussed: appearance, maintenance, environment, recreation, microclimate, familiarity, and health/safety. Three broader analytical themes emerged from these descriptive codes: (1) residents' desires for attractive, comfortablernlandscapes of leisure encompassing pluralistic tastes, lifestyles, and perceptions; (2) the association of environmental benefits and impacts with different landscape types involving complex social and ecological tradeoffs; and (3) the cultural legacies evident in modern landscape choices, especially in terms of a dichotomous human-nature worldview among long-time residents of the Phoenix oasis. Given these findings, programs aimed at landscape change must recognize diverse preferences and rationalization processes, along with the perceived versus actual impacts and tradeoffs of varying yard alternatives.
机译：作为城市生态系统中占主导地位的土地使用，居民区影响着水和其他环境资源。将口渴的草坪转变为其他景观是节水的一种方法，但是诸如文化规范之类的障碍却加强了传统草坪。同时，院子选择的复杂的社会和生态影响使旨在改变草地和其他院子特征以达到特定目的的计划变得复杂。为了更好地了解个人景观决策，我们定性地研究了亚利桑那州凤凰城沙漠都市居民首选院子类型的依据。在简要介绍了两个调查样本中的景观选择之后，讨论了偏好的主要原因：外观，维护，环境，娱乐，小气候，熟悉程度以及健康/安全性。从这些描述性代码中出现了三个更广泛的分析主题：（1）居民对吸引人的，舒适的休闲景观的渴望，其中包含多元化的品味，生活方式和感知力； （2）环境效益和影响与涉及复杂的社会和生态折衷的不同景观类型之间的联系； （3）在现代景观选择中显而易见的文化遗产，特别是在凤凰绿洲的长期居民中二分之一的人文世界观方面。鉴于这些发现，针对景观变化的计划必须认识到各种偏好和合理化过程，以及各种院子替代方案的感知与实际影响和权衡。

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