Showing papers in "Urban Forestry & Urban Greening in 2022"

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors investigated the relationship between people and gardening during the COVID-19 pandemic and what factors influenced the ability of people to garden and found that gardening was overwhelmingly important for nature connection, individual stress release, outdoor physical activity and food provision.

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors assessed the potential benefits of gardening on the mental well-being of Singapore residents, based on the concept of mental resilience, and hypothesized that gardening activities promote mental resilience.

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors developed an online survey to better understand the relationship between people and urban green spaces prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, and the new bond that may have emerged from this interruption.

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors explored the economic value of Singapore's urban green infrastructures by investigating the private condominium and apartment unit market through the Hedonic Pricing Method (HPM), which was integrated with Geographic Information System (GIS) to spatialize housing units, measure the distance of different green spaces, and consider the dependence effects among housing unit transactions.

TL;DR: In this paper , a qualitative study explores the topic of mental health/wellbeing with reference to exposure to urban green space (UGS) and explores whether UGS interaction also helped to mitigate the negative mental health impacts brought about by the first COVID-19 lockdown.

TL;DR: Li et al. as mentioned in this paper proposed an agent-based model (ABM) for simulating the effectiveness of policy measures on residents' decision making with regard to the use of green space.

TL;DR: In this paper , the potential for a full-scale implementation of NBS for climate change adaptation in European cities, the expected benefits and co-benefits, and how these quantities relate to the urban structure of the cities.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors found that coniferous trees in forests adjacent to spa towns and in parks within spa towns are increasingly being attacked by outbreak populations of native European bark beetles in western Bohemia (Central Europe).

TL;DR: In this article , the authors detected a total of 19 native bark beetle species infesting more than 10 % of exotic tree species in the genera Abies, Picea, Pinus, and Pseudotsuga in one year.

TL;DR: In this article , a cooling effect framework was employed to analyze the influence of urban green space patch characteristics, natural and anthropogenic factors on its cooling effect across different climatic zones, finding that the urban cooling islands (UCI) intensity, extent, and gradient of UGS increased with latitude, with lower cooling effect concentrated in arid zones around 30 °N, while the largest (0.38 ha) and smallest (TVoE) threshold value of efficiency were found in the temperate and arid climate zones.

TL;DR: In this paper , a systematic review of the application of remote sensing for the assessment of ecosystem services provided by vegetation in cities, through a classification of these methods according to the data collection source (passive sensors, passive and active sensors and the fusion of other data sources with sensors).

TL;DR: In this article , the authors conducted a systematic literature search for outcomes concerning measures including the Profile of Mood States (POMS), Spielberger State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI), Semantic Differential Method (SDM), Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS), and Restorative Outcome Scale (ROS).

TL;DR: In this article , a multi-scale assessment of urban parks has been made during COVID-19 pandemic, and the findings were compared with non-pandemic periods.

TL;DR: Wang et al. as discussed by the authors used UAVs equipped with a digital camera and a LiDAR to acquire two point cloud data and combined them to extract individual tree height and canopy radius, which were then input to the newly established allometric equation with tree H and Rc as predictor variables to obtain the AGBs of all dawn redwood trees in study area.

TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper employed multinomial logistic regression analysis and multilevel mixed-effects logistic regression analysis to study the use of residential quarter green spaces.

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors explored the impact of a large-scale urban greenway intervention (construction of a 102-km-long East Lake Greenway in Wuhan, China) on the health outcomes of residents by using a natural experimental research design.

TL;DR: In this paper , a detailed, physics-based approach for modelling particulate matter (PM10) and, tropospheric ozone (O3) removal by urban greenery on a small scale was presented.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored the impact of a large-scale urban greenway intervention (construction of a 102-km-long East Lake Greenway in Wuhan, China) on the health outcomes of residents by using a natural experimental research design.

TL;DR: In this article , the authors investigated the distribution patterns and drivers of urban green spaces within the tropical coastal city of Haikou, Hainan, China over the past decade using a combination of remote sensing data and field work.

TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper explored the effects of audio-visual interaction on perceived soundscape restorativeness (PSR) of urban parks, considering visitors of different social and demographic characteristics.

TL;DR: In this article , a detailed and feasible preparatory study of sustainable drainage systems (SuDS) feasible retrofit design, based on a punctual identification of the areas suitable for retrofitting and the most appropriate combination of SuDS technologies, was performed in Sesto Ulteriano (Italy), an urban catchment suffering from stormwater management concerns.

TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper analyzed the development potential, vulnerability, and connectivity loss of a fragmented landscape using a support vector machine (SVM), a circuit theory model, and the "exposure-vulnerability-potential loss" framework.

TL;DR: In this article , the authors examined the impact of constrained planting environments on the health condition of street trees through a case study in Kyoto City, Japan and found that tree health condition was significantly related to pruning intensity, tree pit size, adjacent land use, presence/absence of tree grate or guard, width of sidewalk, tree height, presence of dedicated cycle route, tree Pit pattern, crown light exposure, DBH and tree pit type.

TL;DR: For example, this article found that despite broad appreciation for trees and greenspaces, there are concerns about the risks and costs residents assume over the course of a tree's life cycle, the threat of neighborhood development and gentrification associated with trees, limited plantable space, and limited time and capacity for community organizations.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focused on the comparison of bird communities between urban parks in the heritage city of Olomouc and hardwood floodplain forests in the vicinity of the city.

TL;DR: Wang et al. as discussed by the authors analyzed the characteristics and the potential influencing factors of jogging activities based on trajectory data recorded by a mobile app, using the case of Chongqing city.

TL;DR: In this article , the authors conducted an empirical assessment of residents' place attachment (PA) towards UGS in the Greater Tokyo region and compared the PA constructs among three different groups, namely (1) men and women, (2) married and unmarried, and (3) people with and without children.

TL;DR: In this article , the authors employed an activity path-based measure approach using public participation GIS (PPGIS) to investigate the associations between running satisfaction and nature exposure, including eye-level greenness, top-down greenness and blue space density.