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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
Dryland agroforestry is often hailed as a nature-based solution for rural people’s water- and climate-related struggles, yet appraisals of traditional agroforestry practices and interventions in Maghreb countries are scant. In this study, we appraise whether and how agroforestry delivers as a solution to Moroccan farmers’ plight with drought. Through an analysis of landscape observations, 75 qualitative
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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
The development and governance of modern cities have gradually broken through the boundaries of administrative units. In recent times, with intercity ecological space becoming the focus of a series of development and conservation actions, identifying the intercity ecological synergy regions (maintaining connectivity within the ecological space to ensure the continuity of species migration and landscape)
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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
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Perceptions of ecosystem services and knowledge of sustainable development goals around community and private wetlands users in a rapidly growing city Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 9.1) Pub Date : 2023-12-28 Sukanya Basu, Harini Nagendra, Peter Verburg, Tobias Plieninger
Urban wetlands are well-known to provide multiple ecosystem services and are essential for achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The management practices of local institutions are strongly influential on the sustainability outcomes of urban wetlands, yet the beliefs and value systems underlying distinct management approaches have not been studied thoroughly. Therefore, this study aims
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Assessing large-scale roadside tree removal using aerial imagery and crash analysis: A difference-in-differences approach Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 9.1) Pub Date : 2023-12-27 Ellen O. White, Marcia S. Meixler
Transport agencies worldwide remove roadside trees in the name of traffic safety. In 2017, the Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT), the agency managing state and federal highways in the US state of Georgia, began clear-cutting trees on all transport agency property statewide, amounting to thousands of hectares of cleared land. As justification, GDOT cited fatal traffic crashes with trees.
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Service flow changes in multilayer networks: A framework for measuring urban disaster resilience based on availability to critical facilities Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 9.1) Pub Date : 2023-12-26 Zihao Li, Wentao Yan
Failures of roads and critical facilities under disasters can result in public service disruptions. Studies quantifying disaster resilience commonly focus on evaluating physical performance of infrastructure systems, often cannot capture their capacity that maintain available service to meet citizens’ demands. This paper proposes a flow-based framework for quantitively measuring resilience by regarding
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Key factors to enhance efficacy of 3D digital environments for transformative landscape and urban planning Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 9.1) Pub Date : 2023-12-21 Adrienne Grêt-Regamey, Nora Fagerholm
The unprecedented expansion of digital technologies has led to a rapid increase in the development and application of 3D digital environments for landscape and urban planning in the past two decades. Considering the significant challenges in guiding human societies towards sustainability, these technologies must not only assist decision-makers in adapting to changes but promote fast, transformative
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A methodological approach for integrating human emotions in protected areas management: Insights from SE Spain Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 9.1) Pub Date : 2023-12-20 Enrica Garau, Juan M. Requena-Mullor, Cristina Quintas-Soriano, María D. López-Rodríguez, Irene Otamendi-Urroz, Mariano Oyarzabal, Antonio J. Castro
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Evaluating incentives to encourage native afforestation on private lands in Aotearoa–New Zealand Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 9.1) Pub Date : 2023-12-16 Maksym Polyakov, Peter Edwards, Geoff Kaine, Michael Burton, Philip Stahlmann-Brown
Native forest establishment is an important mechanism to sequester carbon, increase biodiversity, prevent erosion, and improve water quality. Designing incentive programmes to encourage rural landholders to plant native trees on their land requires knowing what factors influence their decisions. We used a choice experiment to evaluate the impacts of various incentives to encourage native afforestation
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Global change in the European Alps: A century of post-abandonment natural reforestation at the landscape scale Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 9.1) Pub Date : 2023-12-12 Nicolò Anselmetto, Peter J. Weisberg, Matteo Garbarino
Natural reforestation is one of the dominant processes in marginal mountain areas of the Northern hemisphere. There is a globally relevant need to predict where and when natural reforestation is likely to occur and what the ecological and social effects might be. We conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis of land use/land cover change (LULCC) case studies investigating spatial patterns of post-abandonment
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Comparative analysis of land use change prediction models for land and fine wetland types: Taking the wetland cities Changshu and Haikou as examples Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 9.1) Pub Date : 2023-12-12 Zhuo Li, Weiguo Jiang, Kaifeng Peng, Xiaoya Wang, Yawen Deng, Xiaogan Yin, Ziyan Ling
With the development of social economy and the influence of human activities, land use has undergone great changes. Land use prediction models have gradually emerged for more rational planning and development of the region. This study took Changshu and Haikou, two wetland cities, as examples to explore the prediction effects of land and fine wetland types in PLUS, FLUS and CLUES models, and combined
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Integrating cultural ecosystem services in wildfire risk assessment Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 9.1) Pub Date : 2023-12-12 Ingrid Vigna, Luca Battisti, Davide Ascoli, Angelo Besana, Alessandro Pezzoli, Elena Comino
The impact of natural disturbances such as wildfires on ecosystem services and local communities is significant. Conventional assessments of wildfire risks often overlook the potential loss of ecosystem services, particularly cultural ones (CES). This study presents a methodology for integrating CES into wildfire risk assessment, combining expert CES participatory mapping with standard procedures based
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Numerical study on the impact of traffic lane adjustments and low boundary walls on pedestrian exposure to NO2 in street canyons Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 9.1) Pub Date : 2023-12-06 D. Voordeckers, T. Lauriks, D. Baetens, T. Ysebaert, S. Denys, P. Billen, T. Tytgat, M. Van Acker
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A cross-sectional analysis of biodiversity, publicly accessible green space and mental well-being in Wales using routinely collected data Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 9.1) Pub Date : 2023-12-06 Oliver Thwaites, Amy Mizen, Richard Fry
There is a lack of studies investigating the effects of green space and biodiversity on mental well-being, across a large study area. Generally, exposure to natural environments promotes better physical health, mental health and well-being. This study investigated associations between publicly accessible green space, biodiversity and mental well-being for individuals living in Wales using routinely
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Maximising runoff retention by vegetated landscape elements positioned through spatial optimisation Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 9.1) Pub Date : 2023-12-06 Ine Rosier, Jan Diels, Ben Somers, Jos Van Orshoven
Ecosystem services provided by vegetated landscape elements (vLEs) are increasingly recognised. One of the services provided is the mitigation of downstream flood risk. Obviously, the type and spatial configuration of vLEs impact the magnitude and timing of the runoff retention. Hence policy programs focused on the conservation and restoration of vLEs would benefit from a capability to determine the
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Investigating the neighborhood effect averaging problem (NEAP) in greenspace exposure: A study in Beijing Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 9.1) Pub Date : 2023-12-07 Jianying Wang, Mei-Po Kwan, Gezhi Xiu, Xia Peng, Yu Liu
Urban greenspaces are pivotal in enhancing the well-being and health of city residents. Accurate assessment of an individual's exposure to these natural settings is thus crucial in urban greenspace planning. However, the dynamic nature of human mobility, which determines the amount of greenspace exposure accessed over time and space, often leads to a divergence between the actual Mobility-Based Exposure
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The potential of industrial green stormwater infrastructure to provide long-term supplementary flood mitigation for low-lying coastal cities under climate change Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 9.1) Pub Date : 2023-12-02 Suphicha Muangsri, Wendy McWilliam, Tim Davies
Coastal city flooding is projected to worsen in low-lying cities with climate change. Planners are concerned about the inadequacy of their current flood mitigation strategies, and the expense and risk of investing in expensive grey infrastructures, such as levees, under climate uncertainty. Implementing green stormwater infrastructure (GSI) on large privately-owned industrial land may be an attractive
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Environmental factors for outdoor jogging in Beijing: Insights from using explainable spatial machine learning and massive trajectory data Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 9.1) Pub Date : 2023-12-04 Wei Yang, Yingpeng Li, Yong Liu, Peilei Fan, Wenze Yue
Outdoor jogging, as a physical exercise beneficial for health, has proliferated worldwide. However, understanding the nonlinear and heterogeneous associations between environmental factors and jogging behavior remains challenging. This study established an explainable spatial machine learning framework combining Geographically Weighted-Random Forest (GW-RF) and SHapley Additive exPlanation (SHAP) model
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Vertical greening systems serve as effective means to promote pollinators: Experimental comparison of vertical and horizontal plantings Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 9.1) Pub Date : 2023-12-02 Manuel Treder, Vera Joedecke, Karsten Schweikert, Peter Rosenkranz, Ute Ruttensperger, Kirsten Traynor
To counteract the ongoing decline of pollinators, we need innovative and effective promotion strategies. Urban areas often function as pollinator refugia, but lack of open spaces can limit promotion measures. This scarcity in open surfaces requires rethinking the conventional flower bed. Can green walls, planted with pollinator-friendly plants, provide an alternative and attractive food source for
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Cultivating thirdspace: Community, conflict and place in Swedish allotment gardens Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 9.1) Pub Date : 2023-12-02 Emelie Pilflod Larsson, Katarina Giritli Nygren
Over the past 15 years, there has been an increased interest in urban gardening. Queues for getting a gardening spot have grown, as many urban citizens seek a spot to cultivate vegetables, and studies have stressed how urban gardens can be one ingredient in creating more sustainable cities. Following the work of urban theorists Henry Lefebvre and Edward Soja, this study explores urban gardens as thirdspaces
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Beauty is in the eye of the beholder: Moderate ability to predict perceptions of beauty, restorativeness, and naturalness, in imagery among 10,727 participants Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 9.1) Pub Date : 2023-11-29 Amber L. Pearson, Zihan Lin, Ashton Shortridge
Visual exposure to nature may bolster mental health, possibly through perceptions of scenes as reflecting the concepts of beauty, restorativeness, and naturalness. To date, only a few studies have used image analytics and deep learning methods to attempt to estimate these concepts based on a training set of user rated images. We aimed to 1) test whether the use of deep learning could be applied to
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Discovering change in agrosilvopastoral landscapes with toponymy in the Mediterranean Region Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 9.1) Pub Date : 2023-11-24 Kyle P. Hearn, Meryem Atik, Abdurrahman Kanabakan, Veli Ortaçeşme
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Functional landscape connectivity for a select few: Linkages do not consistently predict wildlife movement or occupancy Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 9.1) Pub Date : 2023-11-24 Autumn R. Iverson, David Waetjen, Fraser Shilling
Landscape-level connectivity models developed in geographic information systems (GIS) produce hypothetical objects proposed to connect areas of habitat in fragmented landscapes, hereafter called “linkages”. Assuming they are used by organisms in nature, linkages could be an important tool for the maintenance of viable wildlife populations and biodiversity conservation. We evaluated five California
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How do urban green space designs shape avian communities? Testing the area–heterogeneity trade-off Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 9.1) Pub Date : 2023-11-21 François Chiron, Romain Lorrillière, Carmen Bessa-Gomes, Piotr Tryjanowski, Joan Casanelles-Abella, Lauri Laanisto, Ana Leal, Anskje Van Mensel, Marco Moretti, Babette Muyshondt, Ülo Niinemets, Marta Alós Ortí, Pedro Pinho, Roeland Samson, Nicolas Deguines
In cities, green areas are essential for biodiversity conservation, with land cover heterogeneity being a decisive factor. Yet, as heterogeneity increases for a given green area, the patch size of land covers automatically decreases, as the area available for individual species, especially habitat specialist species. This relationship, known as the area-heterogeneity trade-off, is expected to lead
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Applying production-possibility frontier based ecosystem services trade-off to identify optimal scenarios of Grain-for-Green Program Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 9.1) Pub Date : 2023-11-22 Jian Peng, Xiaoyu Wang, Huining Zheng, Zihan Xu
The trade-off between grain production service (GP) and water purification service (WP) is widely acknowledged. Grain-for-Green Program (GFGP) is an effective way to alleviate ecosystem services (ESs) trade-offs and to achieve sustainable management of grain supply and water protection. However, how to identify the optimal GFGP scenario is worth further investigation. This study developed an index
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Predicting context-sensitive urban green space quality to support urban green infrastructure planning Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 9.1) Pub Date : 2023-11-22 Anna Kajosaari, Kamyar Hasanzadeh, Nora Fagerholm, Pilvi Nummi, Paula Kuusisto-Hjort, Marketta Kyttä
Urban green spaces (UGSs) support human health and well-being in diverse ways. In addition to their availability and accessibility, also the quality of UGSs is relevant for understanding human-environment interactions between urban populations and their local UGS. However, data on UGS quality are rarely available with the geographic coverage required for spatial decision making and urban green infrastructure
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Evaluation of sense of safety and privacy in parks in relation to the topography, the presence of dense vegetation and other people in the area Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 9.1) Pub Date : 2023-11-20 Aleksandra Lis, Karolina Zalewska, Paweł Iwankowski, Katarzyna Betkier, Paulina Bilska, Viktoriia Dudar, Aleksandra Łągiewka
The presence of dense vegetation in a park, its topography and the presence of people are elements of Appleton’s prospect-refuge theory and can affect the level of safety and privacy felt by park visitors in various ways. Here we attempt to identify the nature of the relationship between the height of the observation point in relation to the surroundings (flat, higher or lower ground), the location
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Reconstructing historical forest spatial patterns based on CA-AdaBoost-ANN model in northern Guangzhou, China Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 9.1) Pub Date : 2023-11-16 Xin Zhan, Shixiao Yu, Yide Li, Zhang Zhou, Honglin Cao, Guangda Tang
Influenced by natural and man-made factors—especially urbanization—regional forest landscapes and structures are in a dynamic process of constant change. It is of great significance to reconstruct the historical pattern of forest landscapes and construct maps of forest landscapes for long time series. Based on the investigation of Fengshui and carbon sequestration forests in northern Guangzhou city
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Forests are chill: The interplay between thermal comfort and mental wellbeing Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 9.1) Pub Date : 2023-11-07 Loïc Gillerot, Kevin Rozario, Pieter de Frenne, Rachel Oh, Quentin Ponette, Aletta Bonn, Winston Chow, Douglas Godbold, Matthias Steinparzer, Daniela Haluza, Dries Landuyt, Bart Muys, Kris Verheyen
As global warming and urbanisation intensify unabated, a growing share of the human population is exposed to dangerous heat levels. Trees and forests can effectively mitigate such heat alongside numerous health co-benefits like improved mental wellbeing. Yet, which forest types are objectively and subjectively coolest to humans, and how thermal and mental wellbeing interact, remain understudied. We