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Putting down roots: Relationships between urban forests and residents’ place attachment Urban Forestry Urban Green. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Harrison MCGRATH, Tim KURZ, Erik VENEKLAAS, Cristina RAMALHO
Many cities seek to improve their urban forests to provide a diverse range of benefits for residents. One of these potential benefits, place attachment, is linked with its own positive outcomes including increased social cohesion, life satisfaction, and environmentally-friendly behaviour. However, it is currently unclear how urban forests relate to place attachment. This case study sought to clarify
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Influence of façade orientation, floor height, substrate pH, and microbial inoculation on woody plants’ performance in vegetated façades in Southern Finland Urban Forestry Urban Green. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Xi Shu, Long Xie, D. Johan Kotze, Miia Jauni, Iiris Lettojärvi, Taina H. Suonio, Ayako Nagase, Susanna Lehvävirta
Urban densification has led to the adoption of vegetated façades as a nature-based strategy to increase urban green spaces and enhance urban living conditions. However, limited knowledge regarding suitable plants for vegetated façades can impede the process. In this field experiment conducted in Southern Finland, we investigated the performance of 12 potential plant taxa for a vegetated façade by assessing
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Impacts of street tree abundance, greenery, structure and management on residential house prices in New York City Urban Forestry Urban Green. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Jian Lin, Bo Huang, Qiang Wang, Min Chen, Harry F. Lee, Mei-Po Kwan
Urban trees have been widely linked to residential house prices. However, most existing studies focus on using tree abundance and greenery measures to evaluate the economic benefits of urban trees, while disregarding the effects of tree structure and tree-related management such as intentional maintenance and stewardship. We hypothesize that tree abundance, greenery, structure, and tree-related management
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Public emotions and visual perception of the East Coast Park in Singapore: A deep learning method using social media data Urban Forestry Urban Green. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Chenghao Yang, Ye Zhang
Social media data mining has become a prevailing approach to understanding people’s emotional response to, and perception of, public spaces. Drawing on Google Maps Reviews’ text reviews and shared images, this study develops a deep learning framework that combines Transformer BERT and CNN-VGG models to explore public emotions and visual perception of the East Coast Park (ECP) in Singapore. The results
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Predictors of street tree survival in Philadelphia: Tree traits, biophysical environment, and socioeconomic context Urban Forestry Urban Green. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Levon M. Bigelow Jr., Robert T. Fahey, Jason Grabosky, Richard A. Hallett, Jason G. Henning, Michelle L. Johnson, Lara A. Roman
Street trees are highly visible components of the urban forest, providing ecosystem services to city residents, but tree mortality can result in a loss of these essential benefits. Here, we focus on how street tree survival in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (US) has been influenced by 1) tree traits and attributes, 2) the local biophysical environment, and 3) socioeconomic context. We used a longitudinal
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Experiential learning in a problem-based course on urban forest planning and management Urban Forestry Urban Green. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-09 Martin Alexander J.F.
Environmental management in urban spaces involves creative problem-solving with regard for public communication, economics, and socio-political dynamics. As post-secondary institutions provide increasing opportunities for developing these skills, there is little discussion about pedagogical approaches in urban forestry and sustainability programs. A seminar format university course was designed and
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Is the spatial distribution of urban green space associated with crime in Chicago? Urban Forestry Urban Green. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-09 Jaeyoung Ha, Dennis Heejoon Choi, Lindsay Elaine Darling
During past decades, much progress has been made to elucidate the relationship between the quantity of urban green space and crimes, but less is known about how their spatial distribution is associated with crimes. Therefore, this study aims to understand how the composition and configuration of urban green space are related to crimes in metropolitan cities in the United States. Our study performed
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Corrigendum to “Effects of blue space exposure in urban and natural environments on psychological and physiological responses: A within-subject experiment” [Urban For. Urban Green. 87 (2023) 1–9/128066] Urban Forestry Urban Green. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Jie Yin, Jittakon Ramanpong, Jin Chang, Chih-Da Wu, Pei-Hua Chao, Chia-Pin Yu
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Developing a Biophilic Behavioural Change Design Framework - A Scoping Study Urban Forestry Urban Green. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Yangang Xing, Angharad Williams, Andrew Knight
This study argues that as a key measure of success in biophilic design, biophilic behaviours, should be defined, understood, supported, and encouraged within the design process. The study reviewed social science and built environment literature to define and evaluate behaviours and behavioural determinants relevant to biophilic design. An outline methodology proposes the alignment of behaviour change
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Demand-side effects of urban green spaces: How attractiveness helps overcome subjective barriers to health behaviours Urban Forestry Urban Green. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Yue Li, Guangsi Lin
The contribution of Urban Green Spaces (UGSs) to public health is a critical topic. Existing research predominantly examines the relationship between enhanced UGSs characteristics — such as availability, accessibility, and usability — and residents’ health, highlighting how these attributes can mitigate objective barriers to health behaviours in UGSs from a supply-side perspective. However, few studies
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Biodiverse residential development: A review of New Zealand policies and strategies for urban biodiversity Urban Forestry Urban Green. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-03 Kamiya Varshney, Maggie MacKinnon, Maibritt Pedersen Zari, Danielle Shanahan, Chris Woolley, Claire Freeman, Yolanda van Heezik
Urban residential development is expanding globally to accommodate increasing housing demand, greatly impacting biodiversity and human wellbeing. Enhanced sustainability of these developments requires an integrated approach to conserving, supporting, and restoring biodiversity through the built environment and understanding the implications of residential development policies, regulations, and guidelines
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Park proximity and older adults’ physical activity and sedentary behaviors in dense urban areas Urban Forestry Urban Green. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2024-03-02 Monica MOTOMURA, Mohammad Javad KOOHSARI, Kaori ISHII, Ai SHIBATA, Tomoki NAKAYA, Tomoya HANIBUCHI, Andrew T. KACZYNSKI, Jenny VEITCH, Koichiro OKA
Urbanization represents a significant population trend, and a longer life expectancy increases the number of older people living in cities. Aging can intensify urbanization and urban design challenges. Parks or public open spaces are settings within the neighborhood that can support older people to live an active lifestyle. This study examined associations between the number of and distance to parks
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Investigating the interplay between senior-friendly park features, perceived greenness, restorativeness, and well-being in older adults Urban Forestry Urban Green. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Po-Ju Chang, Li-Chih Ho, Pongsakorn Suppakittpaisarn
This study investigated the relationships among senior-friendly park features, perceived greenness, perceived restorativeness, and psychological well-being among older adults in Taichung City. A total of 853 participants aged 55 and above comprised the sample, and data were collected from selected neighborhood parks through on-site questionnaires that emphasized evaluating environmental quality based
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Estimating and projecting the effects of urbanization on the forest habitat quality in a highly urbanized area Urban Forestry Urban Green. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Mingxuan Wan, Yiwen Han, Yeoungkeun Song, Shizuka Hashimoto
Rapid urbanization poses significant challenges to biodiversity, making urban forests crucial for providing habitats and ecosystem services. This study focuses on seven districts in Seoul City that have been rapidly urbanized since the 1970s, aiming to qualify and project the impact of urbanization on biodiversity through the response of habitat quality (HQ) values to historical changes in urban forests
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Built or Social environment? Effects of perceptions of neighborhood green spaces on resilience of residents to heat waves Urban Forestry Urban Green. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Shiyan Sha, Qi Cheng
Large cities in North China are at an increasing risk of heat waves. Several previous studies have emphasized the significance of heat wave resilience but they generally failed to sufficiently consider the social level and to explore the mechanisms involved. In the present study, we investigated heat wave resilience as a full-cycle process and elucidated the related factors at the level of environmental
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Effects of different land-use planning instruments on urban shrub and tree canopy cover in Zurich, Switzerland Urban Forestry Urban Green. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Franziska B. Schmid, Anna M. Hersperger, Adrienne Grêt-Regamey, Felix Kienast
Sustainable urban development requires not only dense and land-saving construction, but also a large share of urban vegetation. A planned unit development (PUD) is a land-use planning instrument that is often used to improve urban quality in urban renewal and densification worldwide. In this study, we analyse the influence of PUDs on urban vegetation in the Canton of Zurich, Switzerland, by contrasting
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Social impact of destruction of urban forests in Ukraine and considerations for their future reconstruction Urban Forestry Urban Green. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Igor Lacan, Iryna Dronova, Joe McBride
Urban trees and greenspaces are often damaged in military conflicts. This study examines the current extent of damage caused by war to urban trees and greenspaces in Ukraine, focusing on the consequences to the well-being of residents, and providing considerations for urban forest reconstruction. Urban trees produce a variety of benefits, including habitat for wildlife, reduction of energy use, improvement
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Spatially analysed expansion of individual street tree crowns enables species-specific crown expansion predictions in different rainfall zones Urban Forestry Urban Green. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Patricia Rettondini Torquato, Amy K. Hahs, Christopher Szota, Stefan K. Arndt, Qian (Chayn) Sun, Joe Hurley, Stephen J. Livesley
Many cities are developing ambitious future canopy cover targets in recognition of urban trees' numerous benefits. Selecting fast-growing and climate-adapted tree species is important to help achieve these targets. The assessment of growth performance of tree species is challenging, but essential for selecting species that grow in different environments. Often, remote sensing is used to measure canopy
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Capturing residents’ perceptions of green spaces in densifying urban landscapes - The potentials of mental mapping Urban Forestry Urban Green. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-24 Jacqueline Otto, Sara Borgström, Dagmar Haase, Erik Andersson
Understanding residents’ perceptions of green-blue infrastructure (GBI) is critical to ensure continued access to its associated benefits in growing and densifying urban landscapes. Physical availability and accessibility of green spaces alone do not directly translate to actual appreciation and use. Residents’ sense of place can determine if benefits from GBI are realized and how landscape changes
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Cooling Effects in Urban Communities: Parsing Green Spaces and Building Shadows Urban Forestry Urban Green. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Tao Sun, Liding Chen, Ranhao Sun
The thermal environment in urban communities significantly impacts the comfort and well-being of residents. Reducing the surface temperature in these areas is critical for improving the quality of life of residents and mitigating the urban heat island effect. Various factors, including buildings, roads, and green spaces, can influence the cooling effects in community areas. However, there is currently
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Influence of urban-form and sociodemographic factors on street tree abundance transpire across scales in Houston, TX Urban Forestry Urban Green. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Weiying Lin, Burak Güneralp
Benefits provided by street trees can be enjoyed by all urban residents but trees along these public rights-of-way are usually unevenly distributed in a city. Both urban-form and sociodemographic factors can influence the spatial distribution of street trees. However, little is known how the relative importance of urban form and sociodemographic characteristics on street tree abundance inequalities
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Trade-offs and synergies in urban green infrastructure: A systematic review Urban Forestry Urban Green. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Baige Zhang, Andrew MacKenzie
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CO2 uptake of urban vegetation in a warming Nordic city Urban Forestry Urban Green. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-17 Minttu Havu, Liisa Kulmala, Hei Shing Lee, Olli Saranko, Jesse Soininen, Joyson Ahongshangbam, Leena Järvi
Many cities are committed to reducing greenhouse gas emissions, improving air quality, and reducing air temperatures through climate actions. Maintaining or increasing carbon sinks in urban green areas is relevant, as the sinks compensate a part of the emissions in addition to reducing emissions themselves. This research assesses the magnitude of carbon dioxide (CO) net uptake (i.e. respiration and
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Spatial pattern of urban forest diversity and its potential drivers in a snow climate city, Northeast China Urban Forestry Urban Green. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-17 Zijun Ma, Chang Zhai, Zhibin Ren, Nanlin Hu, Peng Zhang, Yujie Guo, Chengcong Wang, Shengyang Hong, Wenhai Hong
Urban forest diversity is the cornerstone of providing ecosystem services and improving urban environment. However, the spatial pattern of urban forest (UF) diversity and its driving mechanisms are still not well understood. In our study, using 330 UF sample plots and the corresponding plot-based standard deviation values of remote sensing parameters with different spatial resolutions, we developed
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Origins and drivers of roof plant assemblages: Designing green roofs for biodiversity conservation Urban Forestry Urban Green. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Audrey Muratet, Marc Barra, Laurent Hardion, François Chiron
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Limiting the impact of insect pests on urban trees under climate change Urban Forestry Urban Green. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Samiya Tabassum, Anthony Manea, Michelle R. Leishman
Insect herbivore pests have been identified as a significant threat to the health and survival of urban trees. In the future, these pest-tree interactions in urban areas may be altered by the increased variability in environmental conditions projected under climate change. However, our understanding of how this may occur is limited. In this short communication, we discuss the factors that increase
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INTEGRATED MUNICIPAL MANAGEMENT OF WASTE FROM TREE PRUNING AND REMOVAL Urban Forestry Urban Green. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Ana Maria de Meira, Adriana Maria Nolasco, Elias Costa de Souza, Marina Passos de Souza, Allana Katiussya Silva Pereira, João Gilberto Meza Ucella-Filho, Ananias Francisco Dias Júnior
Urban forests generate a significant amount of waste from leaf fall, pruning and removal of trees. This lignocellulosic material is typically used for composting, burned (with or without energy generation) or disposed in landfills. Despite its potential use for environmentally friendly purposes, access to the material is still limited, mainly due to the lack of knowledge about its generation and quantity
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Integrating landscape ecology in urban green infrastructure planning: A multi-scale approach for sustainable development Urban Forestry Urban Green. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Covadonga Vilanova, Jordi Sardà Ferran, Elena D. Concepción
In response to the growing global recognition of the need to achieve sustainable development, significant efforts are underway to actively integrate nature into the urban environment by implementing green infrastructure. However, due to rapid urban growth, there is a need for novel approaches that integrate ecological knowledge and methods into urban green infrastructure design and development. Traditionally
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Estimating aboveground volume of diverse urban tree species: Developing allometric equations for higher taxonomic levels Urban Forestry Urban Green. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Seungmin Lee, Seonghun Lee, Jeongmin Lee, Yowhan Son, Tae Kyung Yoon
Allometric equations are essential for quantifying carbon storage in trees; however, owing to the high species diversity in urban green spaces, the development of allometric equations for all urban tree species is not feasible. In this study, we estimated the aboveground volume of urban trees and determined the fitness of several allometric equations. We compared the equations for different taxonomic
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Urban greening co-creation: Participatory spatial modelling to bridge data-driven and citizen-centred approaches Urban Forestry Urban Green. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Thomas J.M. Mattijssen, Wil Hennen, Arjen E. Buijs, Paul De Dooij, Ron Van Lammeren, Lesley Walet
The unprecedented growth of metropolitan areas creates challenges for maintaining liveable and biodiverse cities. Urban areas face multiple demands on sparse space whilst various stakeholders similarly aim to promote greening efforts. In this context, authorities need to balance various policy objectives with demands from diverse urban stakeholders. Part of this challenge is the question how generalized
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Adaptive green space management strategies for sustainable carbon sink parks Urban Forestry Urban Green. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Taehyeon Moon, Min Kim, Jinhyung Chon
Green spaces, such as urban parks, function as carbon absorption strategies for the attainment of carbon neutrality. However, urban parks are at risk of losing their carbon absorption function based on changes in carbon flux dynamics due to climate change. Therefore, this study proposes an adaptive green space management strategy for establishing a sustainable carbon sink park by analyzing the carbon
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Quantifying variabilities in monoterpene emission among natural individuals of an urban-greening species (Quercus phylliraeoides) using a rapid measuring method Urban Forestry Urban Green. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-10 Ting-Wei Chang, Shun Tokiwa, Noboru Masui, Akira Tani
, a strong monoterpene-emitting species, is widely planted in urban and suburban areas in Japan. Urban-greening plants with terpenoid emission may affect air quality by increasing photochemical oxidants through the reaction between their terpenoid emissions and urban gases. In mitigating this issue, replacing the original plants with low-emitting variants can be a workable approach without substantially
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Knowledge translation for the advancement of practice: A survey of facilitators and barriers in arboriculture and urban forestry Urban Forestry Urban Green. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Alexander J.F. Martin, Lukas G. Olson, Andrew D. Almas
Skilled, interdisciplinary professionals rely upon research and information sharing to remain knowledgeable. The management of the urban forest is an ever-evolving discipline, and updates to standards, best practices, and techniques occur frequently. Despite the volume of new research published in the complementary fields of arboriculture and urban forestry, little is known about knowledge translation
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Inequalities of green infrastructure in the context of healthy and resilient cities Urban Forestry Urban Green. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Wenjie Wu, Wendy Y. Chen
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Insectivorous birds are more sensitive to urban greenspace changes in Guangzhou city, China Urban Forestry Urban Green. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Ruichen Wu, Qiang Zhang, Zezhou Hao, Le Li, Bingtao Gao, Jianrong Li, Xiaotian Liu, Chao Liao, Nancai Pei
Urban development leads to drastic changes in bird habitat patterns, causing fluctuations in bird species composition and functional groups. However, composition and distribution of avian feeding guilds in response to changing environments are still not well understood in urban ecology. The study evaluates the relationship between bird communities and heterogeneous urban landscapes, and analyzes how
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Corrigendum to “Influence of path design cooling strategies on thermal conditions and pedestrian walkability in high-rise residential complexes” [Urban For. Urban Green. 86 (2023) 127981] Urban Forestry Urban Green. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Fengdi Ma, Yeongeun Jin, Seungjoo Baek, Heeyeun Yoon
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Social inequalities, residential greenness and common mental disorders in women: evidence from the Born in Bradford family cohort study Urban Forestry Urban Green. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Mikel Subiza-Pérez, Kimon Krenz, Aidan Watmuff, Tiffany Yang, Simon Gilbody, Laura Vaughan, John Wright, Rosemary R.C. McEachan
Green space may promote mental health in vulnerable groups and but evidence is mixed. We explored prevalence of Common Mental Disorders (CMD) and associations with green space in a deprived urban multi-ethnic population. We included 4737 women from the Born in Bradford cohort (64% South Asian origin, 49% most deprived population decile). Green space was measured using the normalised difference vegetation
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Improving urban tree species classification by deep-learning based fusion of digital aerial images and LiDAR Urban Forestry Urban Green. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Matheus Pinheiro Ferreira, Daniel Rodrigues dos Santos, Felipe Ferrari, Luiz Carlos Teixeira Coelho Filho, Gabriela Barbosa Martins, Raul Queiroz Feitosa
Accurate information on tree species distribution in urban areas can offer insights into how street trees provide ecosystem services, such as air pollution mitigation and surface cooling. This research presents a method to improve tree species classification in a tropical urban area using LiDAR-derived structural properties of individual tree crowns (ITCs) and digital aerial images. We extracted four
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Two-step carbon storage estimation in urban human settlements using airborne LiDAR and Sentinel-2 data based on machine learning Urban Forestry Urban Green. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Yeonsu Lee, Bokyung Son, Jungho Im, Zhen Zhen, Lindi J. Quackenbush
The quantification of carbon storage (CS) within urban areas has become increasingly crucial for achieving global carbon neutrality. This study proposed a new approach to estimating CS in urban human settlements, building on an existing forestry biomass expansion factor (BEF)-based CS estimation approach, and tested it over Suwon, a city in South Korea. First, a tree canopy cover map was created using
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Can green space exposure enhance the health of rural migrants in Wuhan, China? An exploration of the multidimensional roles of place attachment Urban Forestry Urban Green. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2024-01-29 Zilin Wang, Hanbei Cheng, Zhigang Li, Feicui Gou, Wenya Zhai
Numerous studies have yielded evidence supporting the beneficial health effects of increased green space exposure (GSE), particularly for urban populations. Nevertheless, the specific impacts of GSE on the health of rural migrants, who are regarded as an environmentally vulnerable group, remain unclear. Taking Wuhan, China, as the typical case, this paper examines the nuanced relationship between the
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A Bottom-Up Perspective on Green Infrastructure in Informal Settlements: understanding nature's benefits through lived experiences Urban Forestry Urban Green. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Elgar Kamjou, Mark Scott, Mick Lennon
Twenty per cent of the world's urban population lives in inadequate housing, including informal settlements (IS). This population often experience a low quality of life and faces multiple environmental challenges heightened by climate change, such as air pollution, flooding, and drought. While there is extensive academic literature substantiating the potential of enhancing green infrastructure (GI)
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Integrating landscape and urban development in a comprehensive landscape sensitivity index: A case study of the Appalachian Trail region Urban Forestry Urban Green. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-02 ChengHe Guan, Meizi You
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The importance of current and potential tree canopy on urban vacant lots for landscape connectivity Urban Forestry Urban Green. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Pan Zhang, Robert T. Fahey, Sohyun Park
Recent studies have paid increasing attention to the ecological benefits of vacant land. However, there have not been holistic assessments of the importance of tree canopy on vacant land as a component of greenspace networks within cities, and the potential impact of developing vacant land on connectivity within these networks at the city scale. In this study, we use Hartford, CT, USA as a case study
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From strategy to implementation: Mainstreaming urban green infrastructure in Austria’s spatial planning instruments for climate change adaptation Urban Forestry Urban Green. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-02 Florian Reinwald, Roswitha Weichselbaumer, Arthur Schindelegger, Doris Damyanovic
Safeguarding existing and establishing additional urban green infrastructure (UGI) and, thus, utilising its climate regulatory services is an essential field of action for climate change adaptation (CCA) in urban areas. In particular, safeguarding and improving UGI on private land in mostly residential areas is a central lever for adaptation as a focus solely on public land – typically roads, squares
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Community Forestry in the Czech Republic – a Historical Throwback or a Step Forward? Urban Forestry Urban Green. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2024-01-28 Miloslav Machoň
The rising level of complexity and uncertainty in environmental governance highlight the interplay between governmental and non-governmental actors producing various forms of sustainable forest management, including community-based forestry, in which the relevance of small-scale private forest owners follows. In urban peripheries, urban forestry principles shape small-scale private forest owners' activities
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Examining green space characteristics for social cohesion and mental health outcomes: A sensitivity analysis in four European cities Urban Forestry Urban Green. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-01 Marcel Cardinali, Mariëlle A. Beenackers, Ghozlane Fleury-Bahi, Philippe Bodénan, Milena Tasheva Petrova, Arjan van Timmeren, Uta Pottgiesser
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UAV leaf-on, leaf-off and ALS-aided tree height: A case study on the trees in the vicinity of roads Urban Forestry Urban Green. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-01 Jan Komárek, Ondřej Lagner, Tomáš Klouček
The safety of critical traffic and energy infrastructure is often threatened by surrounding vegetation. We compare the accuracy of six canopy height models (CHMs) created by combining UAV-borne digital leaf-off and leaf-on surface/terrain models with nationwide sparse airborne laser scanning (ALS) data across six different study sites. We conducted the statistical evaluation at three levels for all
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Nitrogen enrichment decrease green roof multifunctionality Urban Forestry Urban Green. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2024-02-01 Guang Hao, Nan Yang, Xiaoqin Chen, Zhibo Du, Meiyang Li, Lei Chen, Hongyuan Li
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Christian eco-theology and urban climate adaptation in the Yorubaland, Nigeria Urban Forestry Urban Green. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2024-01-19 Joseph Adeniran Adedeji, Roman Lenz
The relationship between various Traditions of Christian Eco-theology (TCE) on urban green spaces and implications on climate adaptation in African context remains blurred in the literature. This study assesses the meanings given to urban green spaces and perceptions of different TCE on climate adaptation with a view to identifying how the duos could guide climate policies. Onsite cross-sectional ethnographic
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Measuring the quality and accessibility of urban greenery using free data sources: A case study in Bratislava, Slovakia Urban Forestry Urban Green. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2024-01-23 Hana Bobáľová, Vladimír Falťan, Alexandra Benová, Miroslav Kožuch, Michaela Kotianová, František Petrovič
The importance of assessing urban greenery is growing, especially in the context of global warming and the emergence of urban heat islands. The paper proposes a set of measurements to evaluate the quality and accessibility of greenery based on freely available geographic data: Sentinel-2 satellite images, Urban Atlas, and Open Street Map. The quality (or availability) of urban greenery is derived from
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Economic value of the hot-day cooling provided by urban green and blue space Urban Forestry Urban Green. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2024-01-23 Laurence Jones, David Fletcher, Alice Fitch, Jake Kuyer, Ian Dickie
Increasing high temperatures due to climate change are exacerbated by urban heat island effects, resulting in a range of human health and economic impacts. The green and blue infrastructure (GBI) in cities that underpins nature-based solutions (NBS) can help alleviate hot-day temperatures. In this study we bring together multiple data sources to evaluate the cooling benefit provided by urban GBI in
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Perspectives of successes and challenges in collaborations between non-governmental organization and local government on urban forest management Urban Forestry Urban Green. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2024-01-22 Tyler C. Doucet, Peter N. Duinker, Melanie Zurba, James W.N. Steenberg, John D. Charles
Governments increasingly collaborate with residents and nongovernment organizations (NGOs) in urban forest management because of the underlying belief that these groups improve the delivery of local forest services. However, in practice, the successes, challenges, and outcomes vary drastically by collaborative arrangement; solely documenting positive outcomes in NGO-government collaborations may hinder
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Embedding technologies for improving NBS performance and fostering social inclusion in urban greening strategies: Augmented Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) for Cities Urban Forestry Urban Green. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2024-01-17 Israa Mahmoud, Eugenio Morello, Adriano Bisello, Dionysia Kolokotsa
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Where the wild things are: How urban foraging and food forests can contribute to sustainable cities in the Global North Urban Forestry Urban Green. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2024-01-20 Filippo Oncini, Steffen Hirth, Josephine Mylan, Clare H. Robinson, David Johnson
Humanity is faced with interacting socio-environmental challenges such as securing food while the climate changes and biodiversity declines. These global crises are partly caused by major land-use change arising from deforestation and agriculture, and are exacerbated by the high demand for resource-intensive foods from populations in the Global North, which are increasingly concentrated in urban centres
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Spatial differentiation characteristics and influencing factors of the green view index in urban areas based on street view images: A case study of Futian District, Shenzhen, China Urban Forestry Urban Green. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2024-01-20 Weiyan Zhang, Hui Zeng
Urban green space provides a variety of benefits, and the green view index (GVI) is regarded as an effective indicator to evaluate the quality of green spaces from a human perspective. To investigate the drivers of the spatial differentiation in GVI in urban areas, the GVI was calculated based on Baidu street view images and semantic segmentation in Futian District, Shenzhen, and its spatial variation
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Building green infrastructure for mitigating urban flood risk in Beijing, China Urban Forestry Urban Green. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2024-01-20 Zehao Wang, Zhihui Li, Yifei Wang, Xinqi Zheng, Xiangzheng Deng
Due to climate change and accelerated urbanization, urban flooding has an increasing impact on the sustainable development of metropolitan areas. Since the 1990s, green infrastructure has developed as an alternative and sustainable approach to the mitigation of flood disaster in urban areas. To improve the resilience of urban ecological flood control and build a green infrastructure network, we provide
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Factors influencing urban greenspace use among a multi-ethnic community in the UK: The Chalkscapes Study Urban Forestry Urban Green. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2024-01-15 Erica Jane Cook, Isabella Kabasinguzi, Gurch Randhawa, Nasreen Ali
In the UK, there are disparities in the use of urban greenspaces, particularly among low-income, ethnically diverse communities. Determining how populations interact with greenspaces and the barriers and facilitators that influence use remains pertinent to improve access. This study aimed to examine how people who reside in an ethnically diverse community use and engage with urban greenspaces and,
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Evaluation of the level of park space service based on the residential area demand Urban Forestry Urban Green. (IF 6.4) Pub Date : 2024-01-19 Anqi Tong, Lihua Xu, Qiwei Ma, Yijun Shi, Mao Feng, Zhangwei Lu, Yaqi Wu