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Mapping the climate risk to urban forests at city scale Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 9.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-17 Manuel Esperon-Rodriguez, Rachael V. Gallagher, Niels Souverijns, Quentin Lejeune, Carl-Friedrich Schleussner, Mark G. Tjoelker
Climate change represents a threat to the performance and persistence of urban forests and the multiple benefits they provide to city dwellers. Here, we use a novel approach to identify species and areas at high risk of climate change using the city of Melbourne, Australia, as a case study. We derive a safety margin, calculated based on climatic tolerance to two extreme climate variables (maximum temperature
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More than a canopy cover metric: Influence of canopy quality, water-use strategies and site climate on urban forest cooling potential Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 9.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-17 Mohammad A. Rahman, Stefan Arndt, Felipe Bravo, Pui K. Cheung, Natalie van Doorn, Eleonora Franceschi, Miren del Río, Stephen J. Livesley, Astrid Moser-Reischl, Nayanesh Pattnaik, Thomas Rötzer, Heiko Paeth, Stephan Pauleit, Yakir Preisler, Hans Pretzsch, Puay Yok Tan, Shabtai Cohen, Chris Szota, Patricia R. Torquato
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When mitigation is not “just mitigation”: Defining (and diffusing) tensions between climate mitigation, adaptation, and justice Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 9.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-17 Jessica Debats Garrison, Stephanie Martinez
Using the case of wetlands in California, USA, this paper defines (and assesses strategies for advancing) an understudied corollary of maladaptation and “just adaptation”: “just mitigation.” Wetlands sequester carbon, making their conservation and restoration important for climate mitigation. They also offer co-benefits for climate adaptation, such as greenspace that mitigates the urban heat island
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Enhancing ecological network establishment with explicit species information and spatially coordinated optimization for supporting urban landscape planning and management Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 9.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-13 Zhou Shen, Haiwei Yin, Fanhua Kong, Wei Wu, Hui Sun, Jie Su, Shiqi Tian
While insightful, ecological networks (ENs) incorporated in landscape planning and management may not provide a sufficient reference for maintaining biodiversity without explicit species information and coordinated actions, particularly in urban agglomeration areas. To address this gap, we conducted a study in Southern Jiangsu to refine the habitat ranges of 25 target species within the current ecological
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Bent by the market or driven by the policy? Cracking the code of plastic-mulched farmland expansion in peri-urban Hangzhou, China Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 9.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-13 Yingnan Zhang, Lan Wu, Li Ma, Sensen Wang, Mingyang Shen
An interactive confluence of top-down state interventions and bottom-up market forces has driven a surge of plastic-mulched farmland (), especially in dynamic peri-urban agricultural landscapes, with significant implications for global food security. Nevertheless, there is a dearth of literature regarding the comprehensive policy-market mechanisms on the diffusion of plastic greenhouses. We combine
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Connecting through nature: A systematic review of the effectiveness of nature-based social prescribing practices to combat loneliness Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 9.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-11 Ashby Lavelle Sachs, Annika Kolster, Jordan Wrigley, Veronika Papon, Nerkez Opacin, Nicholas Hill, Michelle Howarth, Ursula Rochau, Laura Hidalgo, Cristina Casajuana, Uwe Siebert, Janina Gerhard, Carolyn Daher, Jill Litt
Loneliness is increasingly recognized as an urgent public health issue due to its impact on mental and physical health, and well-being. Yet, we lack comprehensive, proven strategies for confronting this global problem. There is evidence that contact with nature and greenspace reduces loneliness by facilitating belonging, social connections, and social cohesion. This review aimed to explore whether
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Landscape fragmentation constrains bumblebee nutritional ecology and foraging dynamics Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 9.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-06 E. Pioltelli, L. Guzzetti, M. Ouled Larbi, M. Labra, A. Galimberti, P. Biella
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Building equity into public park and recreation service investment: A review of public agency approaches Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 9.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-06 Helen Beck, Rachel Berney, Brian Kirk, Ken P. Yocom
In recent decades, academic and professional research has increased understanding of the importance of city and landscape planners engaging with social and environmental justice issues, including contemporary inequities inherent in the planning, distribution, use, and access of public green and open spaces. However, there is a gap between this research centering equity and the planning, development
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High-resolution satellite images reveal the prevalent positive indirect impact of urbanization on urban tree canopy coverage in South America Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 9.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-01 Jianhua Guo, Danfeng Hong, Xiao Xiang Zhu
Trees in urban areas act as carbon sinks and provide ecosystem services for residents. However, the impact of urbanization on tree coverage in South America remains poorly understood. Here, we make use of very high resolution satellite imagery to derive urban tree coverage for 882 cities in South America and developed a tree coverage impacted (TCI) coefficient to quantify the direct and indirect impacts
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Research note: View from the top: Apartment residents’ views of nature and mental wellbeing during lockdown Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 9.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-01 Sarah Foster, Alexandra Kleeman, Clover Maitland
Australia’s capital cities have experienced a rapid increase in apartment development over the past decade. The mental wellbeing of apartment residents could be more vulnerable to COVID-19 restrictions due to the unique constraints of apartment buildings and limited access to nature. We examined the relationship between residents’ self-reported view components and wellbeing after Australia’s national
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Measuring spatial inequality of urban park accessibility and utilisation: A case study of public housing developments in Auckland, New Zealand Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 9.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-01 Jessie Colbert, I-Ting Chuang, Katarzyna Sila-Nowicka
Poor spatial accessibility of urban green spaces affects disadvantaged populations, who are at greater risk of socioeconomic related health inequalities. We analyse mobile phone locational data from the Auckland Region of New Zealand to connect a user's 'home' location to nearby urban parks, specifically focusing on public housing tenants - a highly vulnerable group at greater risk of health inequalities
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Experiences with wildfire are associated with private landowners’ management decisions, relationships, and perceptions of risk Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 9.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-29 Clare Aslan, Ryan Tarver, Mark Brunson, Sam Veloz, Ben Sikes, Rebecca Epanchin-Niell
As human populations grow and anthropogenic change increases, costly wildland fires increasingly affect rural, public–private interface landscapes. Climate change, a history of fire suppression, and biological invasions are increasing fire risk in systems worldwide. Fires that ignite in one jurisdiction can spread across ownership boundaries, with the result that landscape-scale fire management and
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Evaluating the subjective perceptions of streetscapes using street-view images Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 9.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-28 Yoshiki Ogawa, Takuya Oki, Chenbo Zhao, Yoshihide Sekimoto, Chihiro Shimizu
Developing a model to evaluate urban streetscapes based on subjective perceptions is important for quantitative understanding. However, previous studies have only considered limited types of subjective perceptions, neglecting the relationships between them. Further, accurately measuring subjective perception with low computational costs for large-scale urban regions at high spatial resolutions has
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Reaching beyond GIS for comprehensive 3D visibility analysis Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 9.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-27 Rafał Wróżyński, Krzysztof Pyszny, Magdalena Wróżyńska
Visibility analyses are one of the fundamental geospatial processing tasks applied in various fields. Recent technological advancements have accelerated viewshed calculations and improved their accuracy thanks to the growing availability of high-resolution spatial data. However, limitations of standard GIS tools, primarily related to the inability to perform analyses in a fully three-dimensional environment
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Determinants of honeybee hive survival and its implications for urban biodiversity in Toronto and Montreal: A Canadian case study Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 9.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-27 Mischa Young, Georges A. Tanguay, Gavin MacGregor, Juste Rajaonson
Cities are shown to provide favourable conditions for western honeybees () by protecting them from agricultural pesticides and offering a greater diversity of flora. Nevertheless, while current research primarily focuses on the causes of pollinator – and particularly honeybee – decline, including pesticide exposure, climate change, and habitat fragmentation, little attention is dedicated to urban apiculture
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Spatial equity of urban parks from the perspective of recreational opportunities and recreational environment quality: A case study in Singapore Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 9.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-27 Ru Guo, Jessica Ann Diehl, Ran Zhang, Hongcheng Wang
Spatial equity in urban park recreational services can significantly contribute to sustainable urban planning. However, there are shortcomings in research comparing the spatial equity of different categories of parks and urban parks overall from the perspective of recreational opportunities and recreational environment quality available to residents across various neighborhoods. In this paper, emphasizing
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Associations between green space availability and youth’s physical activity in urban and rural areas across Germany Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 9.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-26 Carina Nigg, Janis Fiedler, Alexander Burchartz, Markus Reichert, Claudia Niessner, Alexander Woll, Jasper Schipperijn
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Participatory modeling for collaborative landscape and environmental planning: From potential to realization Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 9.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-26 Moira L. Zellner
Participatory modeling is a collaborative approach to formalize shared representations of a problem and, through the joint modeling process, design, and test solutions. This approach is particularly well-suited to address complex socio-environmental problems like climate change and its implications on equitable and sustainable resource management and landscape planning. Despite its potential to inform
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Post-wildfire neighborhood change: Evidence from the 2018 Camp Fire Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 9.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-26 Kathryn McConnell, Christian V. Braneon
As the number of highly destructive wildfires grows, it is increasingly important to understand the long-term changes that occur to fire-affected places. Integrating approaches from social and biophysical science, we document two forms of neighborhood change following the 2018 Camp Fire in the United States, examining the more than 17,000 residential structures within the burn footprint. We found that
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Nature on our doorstep: How do residents perceive urban parks vs. biodiverse areas? Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 9.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-23 M. Melon, P. Sikorski, P. Archiciński, E. Łaszkiewicz, A. Hoppa, P. Zaniewski, E. Zaniewska, W. Strużyński, B. Sudnik-Wójcikowska, D. Sikorska
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Climate change and real estate markets: An empirical study of the impacts of wildfires on home values in California Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 9.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-22 Hongwei Dong
This study uses a quasi-experimental design to evaluate the impacts of the major wildfires in California from 2016 to 2021 on property value at the neighborhood level, as defined by Census tracts. I construct a 12-year (2010–2021) panel data set and run spatial panel models with random effects to compare changes in home values between neighborhoods affected by wildfires and control neighborhoods identified
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A decision support system for effective implementation of agro-environmental measures targeted at small woody landscape features: The case study of Slovenia Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 9.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Ivajnšič Danijel, Pipenbaher Nataša, Grujić Veno Jaša, Donša Daša, Kaligarič Mitja, Škornik Sonja, Žiberna Igor, Čuš Jure, Recko Novak Petra, Kohek Štefan, Brumen Matej, Strnad Damjan
Years of agricultural intensification across Europe’s plains, valleys and hills had left behind a more or less generalized land use pattern dominated by profitable land cover types. Small landscape features with no direct (financial) benefit to the farmer, have been, in many cases, removed and converted to arable land. This study investigates the possibilities to integrate small woody landscape features
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Beyond just green: Explaining and predicting restorative potential of urban landscapes using panorama-based metrics Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 9.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-20 Xudong Zhang, Ervine Shengwei Lin, Puay Yok Tan, Jinda Qi, Roger Ho, Angelia Sia, Radha Waykool, Xiao Ping Song, Agnieszka Olszewska-Guizzo, Lingshuang Meng, Yue Cao
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Endangered Lomas plant communities and their potential on green roofs in Peru Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 9.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-19 Sofia Flores, Koenraad Van Meerbeek
Ongoing urbanisation and climate change threaten urban green (UG) spaces in Lima, exacerbated by conventional design and management methods. Extensive green roofs (GRs) are a promising alternative in Lima's context as they provide numerous benefits and are adapted to arid conditions. This study aimed to develop sustainable GRs in Lima by using the Lomas ecosystems as a habitat template. We analysed
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The public–private divide and seasonal variation shape bird diversity in greenspaces of two neighboring midwestern USA cities Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 9.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-19 Henry S. Pollock, Carena J. van Riper, Devin J. Goodson, Susannah B. Lerman, Mark E. Hauber
Greenspaces are increasingly valued for supporting biodiversity in urbanized landscapes. Previous research efforts have emphasized the importance of public land such as parks and nature preserves for biodiversity, yet private yards in residential neighborhoods also have great potential for species conservation. Our study considered the importance of adjacent public and private greenspaces for urban
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Progressive pollen calendar to detect long-term changes in the biological air quality of cities in the Madrid Region, Spain Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 9.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-16 Patricia Cervigón, Zuzana Ferencova, Ángel Cascón, Jorge Romero-Morte, Javier Galán Díaz, Silvia Sabariego, Margarita Torres, Adela Montserrat Gutiérrez-Bustillo, Jesús Rojo
Rhinoconjunctivitis and allergic asthma are among the most frequent diseases in the world, and pollen is their main cause. The incidence of respiratory allergic diseases is expected to grow in the coming years as a consequence of ambient pollution, changes in land use and land cover in cities, and climate change. In this context of global change, the environmental information provided by monitoring
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Just nature-based solutions and the pursuit of climate resilient urban development Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 9.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Joshua J. Cousins
Nature-based solutions (NbS) offer pathways towards climate resilient development. For cities, these pathways translate to a host of benefits to address the climate crisis, including climate change adaptation and mitigation, biodiversity protection and enhancement, and human well-being. In urban spaces, NbS are also about the design and re-design of the urban built and natural environment. This presents
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Roots of urban equality: Are low-income neighborhoods paying more for street trees? Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 9.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Hanxue Wei
This study investigates the potential influence of street trees on the single-family housing market in Seattle between 2010 and 2020, specifically examining how the relationship between the number of street trees and housing prices varies across neighborhoods with different income levels. It further discusses the policy implications for promoting environmental justice in urban tree-planting endeavors
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Impacts of mass flowering soybean on bee visitation rates of forest plants at different spatial scales Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 9.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Pablo Yair Huais, Gabriel Grilli, Leonardo Galetto
Agricultural intensification promotes the loss and fragmentation of natural habitats, and negatively affects the provision of ecosystem services such as natural pollination of native plants and crops. Also, many crops produce large flower blooms for a short period of time, and some studies have found effects of this massive flowering pulse on the abundance and foraging behavior of pollinators. Particularly
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Projections of future spatiotemporal urban 3D expansion in China under shared socioeconomic pathways Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 9.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-10 Kechao Wang, Tingting He, Wu Xiao, Runjia Yang
The 21st century is marked by urbanization, with global focus on horizontal city expansion. Yet, vertical growth lacks research due to data scarcity. This study investigates the fusion of urban building height predictions with conventional sprawl projections to offer a holistic 3D urban expansion foresight. We constructed a model for projecting urban building volume using socio-economic factors includes
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Recognising peri-urban ecosystem services in urban development policy and planning: A framework for assessing agri-ecosystem services, poverty and livelihood dynamics Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 9.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-10 Fiona Marshall, Jonathan Dolley, Ramila Bisht, Ritu Priya, Linda Waldman, Pritpal Randhawa, Jorn Scharlemann, Priyanie Amerasinghe, Rajashree Saharia, Abhinav Kapoor, Bushra Rizvi, Yasir Hamid, Meghana Arora, Ima Chopra, Kumud Sawansi Teresa
Peri-urban ecosystem services (ES) play a vital role in the health and livelihoods of urban and peri-urban residents, but have received relatively little attention in the literature to date. Here we focus on agriculture-related peri-urban ecosystem services in south Asia: examining the relationships with multiple dimensions of poverty, and cross-scale interactions that affect the livelihoods and well-being
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Key connectivity areas in the Llanganates-Sangay Ecological Corridor in Ecuador: A participative multicriteria analysis based on a landscape species Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 9.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Gorky Ríos-Alvear, Pablo Meneses, H. Mauricio Ortega-Andrade, Cinthya Santos, Aymé Muzo, Karima G. López, Alexander Griffin Bentley, Francisco Villamarín
Habitat loss and fragmentation are critical threats to biodiversity decline as they decrease the species occurrence and dispersal probability between natural habitats. Thus, promoting habitat connectivity supports species dispersal and accessibility to vital resources within the landscape, and contributes to long term population persistence. However, decision-making in human dominated landscapes challenges
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Conservation and development of the historic garden in a landscape context: A systematic literature review Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 9.1) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Jingsen Lian, Steffen Nijhuis, Gregory Bracken, Xiangyan Wu, Xiaomin Wu, Dong Chen
Although there have been numerous studies on the heritage attributes, characteristics, and values of the historic garden as a special category of cultural heritage, the is why a comprehensive review combining mainstream historic garden conservation with ways of understanding the garden in a landscape context has not been conducted. Landscape is an integrative concept that combines physical features
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A typological study of the provision and use of communal outdoor space in Australian apartment developments Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 9.1) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Julian Bolleter, Paula Hooper, Alex Kleeman, Nicole Edwards, Sarah Foster
There is a consensus that higher-density urban settings need to be accompanied by communal outdoor space (COS) to bolster the well-being of apartment residents. Nonetheless, there is a lack of studies identifying COS types in apartment buildings and systematically assessing the degree to which they provide greenery and are used by residents. In response, this study developed a COS typology for apartment
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Exploring nutrient-sensitive landscape configurations for rural communities in southern Mexico Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 9.1) Pub Date : 2024-02-22 Ivan P. Novotny, Walter A.H. Rossing, Pablo Tittonell, Mariela Fuentes-Ponce, Jeroen C.J. Groot
In Mexico, the traditional MILPA polycropping system is giving way to maize monocultures, impacting the nutritional diversity of smallholder farmers and diminishing ecosystem services. This study explores landscape alternatives to enhance nutritional self-sufficiency and environmental performance in rural communities, comparing scenarios without (S1) and with (S2) innovative cropping systems. The innovations
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The quality of Swedish adolescents’ outdoor life and its relationship with self-esteem and well-being Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 9.1) Pub Date : 2024-02-22 Mark Wales, Eva Hoff, Fredrika Mårtensson, Jan-Eric Englund
This study investigates the relationship between outdoor life and the well-being and self-esteem of Swedish adolescents aged 12–15 years old (n = 320), residing in three different living environments in the south of Sweden. The study employed a questionnaire that was administered twice during a school year that included questions on time spent outdoors, environmental quality and the perceived benefit
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Mapping potential conflicts between wilderness travel and ecological values on a national scale Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 9.1) Pub Date : 2024-02-17 Tiantian Xu, Running Chen, Steve Carver, Jiayu Wu
Human activity has been significant driving force behind global declines in remaining wilderness areas. Previous assessments of human activity have focused on long-term cumulative human pressure. However, the growing popularity of nature-based tourism has led to increased tourists’ footfall in remote wilderness areas. These short-term tourists’ activities, if not assessed and properly restricted, may
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Everyday places to get away – Lessons learned from Covid-19 lockdowns Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 9.1) Pub Date : 2024-02-17 B. Gatersleben, E. White, K.J. Wyles, S.E. Golding, G. Murrell, C. Scarles, T. Xu, B.F.T. Brockett, C. Willis
Being able to get away from everyday stressors and demands, even if close to home and just for a few minutes, is important for wellbeing. During the Covid-19 lockdown periods, people’s ability to get away changed significantly. An increase in visits to nearby natural places is well documented. Little is known about other types of places people visited to get away. An online UK survey was conducted
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Legacies of redlining lead to unequal cooling effects of urban tree canopy Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 9.1) Pub Date : 2024-02-16 Meen Chel Jung, Michael G. Yost, Andrew L. Dannenberg, Karen Dyson, Marina Alberti
Redlining—a racially discriminatory policy of systematic disinvestment established by the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation (HOLC) in the 1930s and continued until the late 1960s—still influences the contemporary landscape of cities in the US. While the heterogeneous distribution of land surface temperature and tree canopy cover between neighborhoods with different HOLC grades have been recently examined
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In plain sight: Green views from the residence and urbanites’ neighborhood satisfaction Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 9.1) Pub Date : 2024-02-10 Pieter Fonteyn, Silvie Daniels, Robert Malina, Sebastien Lizin
Recent decades have seen theoretical and empirical support being generated for a positive relationship between exposure to nature and human well-being. However, exposure to nature is diverse. It can stem from spending time in green spaces, or simply from being able to observe greenery, such as from inside one’s residence. The literature has devoted limited attention to the extent to which green views
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The impacts of racially discriminatory housing policies on the distribution of intra-urban heat and tree canopy: A comparison of racial covenants and redlining in Minneapolis, MN Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 9.1) Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Rebecca H. Walker, Bonnie L. Keeler, Kate D. Derickson
Research has demonstrated the impact of historic discriminatory mortgage lending (i.e., “redlining”) on the distribution of environmental benefits and burdens, while the environmental legacies of other racially discriminatory housing policies remain unexplored. Using a novel dataset of racial covenants in Minneapolis and its suburbs, the first complete map for any U.S. city, we find a significant positive
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Drought threatens agroforestry landscapes and dryland livelihoods in a North African hotspot of environmental change Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 9.1) Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Laura Kmoch, Aimad Bou-Lahriss, Tobias Plieninger
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When healthy aging meets Vitamin G: Assessing the associations between green space and heart health in older adults using street view and electrocardiography Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 9.1) Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Ruoyu Wang, Guoping Dong, Yang Zhou, Tongyun Du, Guang-Hui Dong, Marco Helbich
Heart health is important for the quality of life, especially for older adults. Awareness is mounting that green space possibly matters for promoting heart health. While most studies mainly focused on the relationship between green space and cardiovascular diseases among older adults, scant attention has been paid to general heart heat measures through electrocardiography (ECG). This study aims to
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Local socioeconomic factors predict urban forest structure and composition across neighborhoods in Syracuse, NY (USA) Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 9.1) Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Jordan Jessamy, John E. Drake, David J. Nowak, John C. Stella
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The role of urban green space in promoting health and well-being is related to nature connectedness and biodiversity: Evidence from a two-factor mixed-design experiment Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 9.1) Pub Date : 2024-02-03 Chen Gong, Rongtian Yang, Shuhua Li
The health and well-being benefits of green space over gray space have been widely recognized. However, the congruence effect implies that the outcome of environmental exposure is influenced by one's psychological relationship with the environment. This study conducted a two-factor mixed-design experiment with college students ( = 68) to investigate the moderating effect of the psychological factor
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How well do NDVI and OpenStreetMap data capture people’s visual perceptions of urban greenspace? Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 9.1) Pub Date : 2024-02-03 Roos Teeuwen, Vasileios Milias, Alessandro Bozzon, Achilleas Psyllidis
The study of urban greenspaces typically relies on three types of data: people’s subjective perceptions collected via , vegetation indices derived from satellite imagery, such as the (NDVI), and Land Use or Land Cover maps, such as (OSM). Data on people’s perceptions are essential when researching human activities, yet they scale poorly. NDVI and OSM data, on the other hand, are freely available worldwide
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Turquoise infrastructure: Assessing the impacts of global change on multi-habitat connectivity from a landscape management perspective Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 9.1) Pub Date : 2024-01-28 Simon Tarabon, Claire Godet, Gilles Vuidel, Christophe Eggert, Marion Bailleul, Claude Miaud, Céline Clauzel
Riparian and wetland ecosystems (RWEs) are home to many biphasic species, such as amphibians, whose life cycles require both terrestrial and aquatic habitats. This “turquoise infrastructure” has emerged only recently and, because it is complex, little is known to date about how to evaluate its functionality. This paper presents an innovative graph-based model for assessing the connectivity of composite
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Challenges for mainstreaming climate adaptation in African cities. A case study of Kigali, Rwanda Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 9.1) Pub Date : 2024-01-28 Emmanuel Mwenje, Parveen Kumar
Cities in Africa are experiencing rapid urban and population growth. They are also among the most affected by global environmental challenges. The increasing frequency of extreme climate change events has significant implications and poses a serious challenge for policymakers to build resilient urban societies. In Africa, a considerable amount of effort has been invested in building a climate resilient
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Antecedents and consequences of park crowding: Linking park attractiveness, perceived crowding, and revisit intention Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 9.1) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Peng Zhan, Qinghai Guo, Huilin Chen, Yani Wu
Urban parks stand as vital recreational refuges for urban inhabitants. In the face of the growing phenomenon of park crowding, a marked knowledge gap persists regarding its causes and subsequent implications. To address this, our current study puts forth a conceptual model that aims to decipher the complex interplay between park attractiveness, visitors' perceived crowding, and their revisit intentions
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Housing and gardening: Developing a health equity-focused research agenda Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 9.1) Pub Date : 2024-01-24 Jonathan Kingsley, Zoë Goodall, Manoj Chandrabose, Takemi Sugiyama, Wendy Stone, Piret Veeroja, Nyssa Hadgraft
There is increasing evidence of the health and wellbeing benefits of gardening. However, such benefits are not shared equally across groups in the community. It is important from a social justice perspective to understand the contextual factors that influence opportunities to garden, and how they are distributed in society, how well, and to whom. Despite being a primary site in which people garden
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Assessing public attitudes towards urban green spaces as a heat adaptation strategy: Insights from Germany Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 9.1) Pub Date : 2024-01-23 Rita Sousa-Silva, Chad Zanocco
Urban green spaces are recognized as essential elements of cities. They offer multiple benefits, including mitigating the urban heat island effect and its negative impact on public health. They also present opportunities for people to interact, recreate, and connect with nature. To explore attitudes towards urban green spaces, we surveyed 2253 German adults after the hot summer of 2022 to identify
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Identification of intercity ecological synergy regions and measurement of the corresponding policy network structure: A network analysis perspective Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 9.1) Pub Date : 2024-01-20 Wuyang Hong, Yelin Li, Xiaochun Yang, Renzhong Guo, Minde Liang, Xiaoming Li
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Can environmental legislation protect a threatened apex predator across different land tenures? Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 9.1) Pub Date : 2024-01-12 Nicholas Carter, John G. White, Nick Bradsworth, Amanda Smith, Robyn Neville, Andrew Taylor, Raylene Cooke
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Insights into citizens’ experiences of cultural ecosystem services in urban green spaces based on social media analytics Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 9.1) Pub Date : 2024-01-11 Jie Li, Jun Gao, Zhonghao Zhang, Jing Fu, Guofan Shao, Zhenyu Zhao, Panpan Yang
Urban green spaces (UGSs) facilitate the interaction of residents with blue and green infrastructure. Various cultural ecosystem services (CESs) generated by UGSs are reflected in social media data, and continuous efforts are needed to consistently characterize citizens’ perceptions of CESs by mining increasingly available social media data. For 50 UGS sites in Shanghai, we established a perception
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Climate justice in future cities: Geographical perspectives for inclusive urban resilience and adaptation Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 9.1) Pub Date : 2024-01-06 Francesca Peroni, Salvatore Eugenio Pappalardo
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Critical factors for effective resident participation in neighborhood rehabilitation in Wuhan, China: From the perspectives of diverse stakeholders Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 9.1) Pub Date : 2024-01-05 Yu Li, Yinhua Tao, Queena K. Qian, Erwin Mlecnik, Henk J. Visscher
Resident participation is essential for neighborhood rehabilitation. It requires the active involvement of residents and efficient management by organizers. To improve the effectiveness of resident participation, it is necessary to understand the critical success factors (CSFs) underlying it. However, previous research has examined the critical factors from a single-stakeholder perspective, overlooking
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Developing the health effect assessment of landscape (HEAL) Tool: Assessing the health effects of community greenspace morphology design on non-communicable diseases Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 9.1) Pub Date : 2024-01-04 Huaqing Wang, Louis G. Tassinary, Galen D. Newman
Neighborhood greenspace benefits health, yet few tools are available for estimating the health consequences of community greenspace design alternatives, especially prior to the implementation of a landscape design plan. Herein we present a machine learning based tool for predicting the prevalence of non-communicable diseases based on landscape design maps at the community scale. We achieve this based
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Using google street view to reveal environmental justice: Assessing public perceived walkability in macroscale city Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 9.1) Pub Date : 2023-12-28 Yi Lu, Hui-Mei Chen
Walkability is an important issue in urban planning equity, which is primarily influenced by the objective environment and subjective perception. However, assessing the objective environment of the city on a large scale or obtaining the general public’s perceptual evaluation of the urban environment with less cost is challenging. This research adopted two-stage studies to identify the relationship