Showing papers in "Urban Forestry & Urban Greening in 2016"

TL;DR: In this article, the authors integrated i-Tree Eco model in order to estimate air pollution removal by urban trees in Strasbourg city, France, and showed that public trees, i.e., trees managed by the city, removed about 88 t of pollutants during one year period (from July 2012 to June 2013): about 1 ton for CO; 14 tons for NO2; 56 tons for O3; 12 tons for PM10-coarse (particles with diameter ranging from 2.5 to 10μm); 5 tons for P2.5 and 1 metric ton for

TL;DR: In this article, the effects of naturalness, gender, and age on the activities, aesthetics, and self-reported well-being associated with urban green spaces were investigated based on a postal survey of residents living in close proximity to six different green spaces in the city of Gothenburg, Sweden.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated how different types and quantities of UGI, i.e., trees, green roofs, and green facades, affect pedestrian thermal comfort and concluded that increasing the share of green cover did not directly correspond to the magnitude of the PET reduction.

TL;DR: It is suggested that providing large, visible as well as clean and well-maintained UGS close to people's homes may be an effective strategy to improve PA and people's health.

TL;DR: In this article, road and vehicle use in urban environments are key contributors to urban air pollution and increase concentrations of carbon monoxide, polyaromatic hydrocarbons and particulate matter (particles).

TL;DR: In this article, an experimental investigation at the micro-scale and also a numerical simulation at the macro-scale of a typical urban environment in Adelaide were conducted to estimate the potential for mitigating the UHI effect.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used data collected in and around eight London greenspaces, with areas ranging from 0.2 to 12.1 square feet, to model the distance and magnitude of cooling provided by each greenspace and define the relationships between cooling extent and the size of greenspace or the areas of tree canopy and grass.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored whether general specification or specific types of green spaces are associated with mental and general health and found that more urban green space was associated with fewer days of mental health complaints in urban zip-codes.

TL;DR: Wang et al. as discussed by the authors explored the stress recovery effects of different videotaped scenes, using six urban parks and one urban roadway scene, and found that nature-based urban park scenes relieved stress and restored attentional levels.

TL;DR: The normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) is often used as a marker of surrounding greenness in epidemiological studies aiming to evaluate the health effects of green space in urban settings.

TL;DR: Based on the cost-distance analysis method, a three-rank (basic, moderate and strict-rank) composite ESP of Gaoming (Guangdong, China) aiming at protecting the survivals and habitat securities of rare vegetations, wild animals and human beings was constructed in this article.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used GIS based network analysis to assess the accessibility of urban green spaces at hierarchical levels by applying different network distance to each hierarchy of UGS in a dense and complex urban setting in a developing region.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine residents' tree planting and removal decisions in Mississauga (Ontario, Canada) to better understand the way household-scale actions shape urban forests.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors compiled recent inventory data from 929,823 street trees in 50 cities to determine trends in tree number and density, identify priority investments and create baseline data against which the efficacy of future practices can be evaluated.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss European urban green space research from an environmental justice perspective and discuss potentials for European UGS research to take up a more explicit environmental justice framing to shed much-needed light on injustices in European cities and inspire change in policy and practice.

TL;DR: The first International Conference on Urban Tree Diversity as mentioned in this paper highlighted the need for a better understanding of the current state of urban tree diversity and highlighted the importance of tree diversity in ecosystem service provision and ecosystem stability.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used pictures of four different landscapes to study the effects of two possible sources (visual aesthetic quality and landscape types) on the consensus of visual preferences among 156 undergraduate respondents.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a set of necessary considerations for current and future discussions on native and non-native plant material in sustainable urban development using examples from Northern and Central Europe and illustrate that in some regions the catalogue of native tree species may be too limited to fulfil ecosystem services and resilience in harsh urban environments.

TL;DR: This article developed a Green Infrastructure Equity Index to identify communities that would most benefit from green infrastructure investment as critical for equitable GI planning, and used the test case of the Philadelphia Water Department as a test case to determine which communities could benefit the most from investment in green infrastructure based on their "equity void ranking".

TL;DR: It is proposed that perceived complexity of magnified scene parts can predict the greater fascinating and restorative qualities of natural versus built scenes and fit with the idea that fractal-like, recursive complexity is an important visual cue underlying the restorative potential of natural and built environments.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used hyperspectral imagery and waveform lidar data to directly map urban forest species, leaf area index (LAI), and carbon storage in downtown Santa Barbara, California.

TL;DR: In this article, a hierarchical cluster analysis and multidimensional scaling (MDS) revealed the distinction between conifers and deciduous trees, crown shape, the two-dimensional crown size to trunk height ratio and the crown density as important to humans.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed habitat functions of a large urban cemetery in Berlin (Weiyensee Jewish Cemetery) and explored related environmental variables, concluding that cemeteries provide important cultural ecosystem services within the urban green infrastructure.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the perception and use of brownfields and their spontaneous vegetation by the urban population through surveys undertaken in Dresden and Leipzig, and suggested that the use and design of green space should be rethought in unconventional ways, and discusses how the ecological and social potential of brownfield with spontaneous vegetation can be best exploited for urban residents.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored the links between biodiversity potential, site access and user participation in a case study comprising ten established examples of organized social-ecological initiatives in the inner-city area of Greater Manchester.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the influence of vegetation barriers on the distribution of roadside carbon monoxide (CO) emissions and provided the optimal height for roadside vegetation barriers in the given street canyons.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used a questionnaire survey for understanding peoples' use of urban green spaces in Karachi, Pakistan and Ho-Chi-Minh City in Vietnam and found that the main reason for visiting green spaces is walking and spending time with friends and family.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated microclimate differences within an urban park (the Singapore Botanic Gardens) to assess if variations in plot-scale land cover affect both objective (measured) and subjective (surveyed) microclimate data.

TL;DR: In this paper, random point sampling and remote sensing methods are used to estimate the urban tree canopy cover in Williamstown, a suburb of Melbourne, Australia, using high resolution multi-spectral satellite images fused with LiDAR data with pixel-level accuracy.

TL;DR: Aquaponics is an innovative smart and sustainable production system for integrating aquaculture with hydroponic vegetable crops, that can play a crucial role in the future of environmental and socio-economic sustainability in smart cities as mentioned in this paper.