Showing papers in "Urban Forestry & Urban Greening in 2023"

TL;DR: The use of green infrastructure (GI) has been established as a way to alleviate stress and the COVID-19 pandemic has placed a new emphasis on the importance of GI as both a coping mechanism and a source of recreation as discussed by the authors .

TL;DR: Zhang et al. as discussed by the authors developed an interrupted time-series quasi-experimental design based on three-month mobile phone big data to infer the causal effects of mobility intervention policies on park visits in Shenzhen, including the first-level response and return-to-work (RTW) order.

TL;DR: In this article , a social preference survey performed in Warsaw, assessed the preferences toward alterations in urban green spaces (UGS) that should take place to ensure safe recreation and identified how peoples' personal characteristics are linked to the preferred changes to formulate recommendations for alterations addressing post-covid challenges while keeping the resident's preferences in mind.

TL;DR: In this paper , LiDAR scanner application on an iPad Pro 2020 for trunk perimeter measures and the position for 10 different groups of species in the Polish Airmen Park, Kraków (Poland).

TL;DR: In this article , the authors provide an overview of the potential ecosystem services (ES) delivered by urban IGS: What types of IGS have been discussed, which ES have been identified in IGS, what interrelationships among different types of ES, and how can the potential IGS be enhanced by urban design practices?

TL;DR: In this article , the authors compared the differences in green space exposure obtained from different geographic contexts using residence-based and mobility-based methods, multiple spatial resolutions, and buffer zones.

TL;DR: In this article , the authors explored socio-demographic predictors of residential green and blue spaces (using satellite data on surrounding greenness and distance to rivers and lakes), and visit frequencies to 12 different urban and rural green/blue environments.

TL;DR: In this paper , the relationship between urban green space and individual social health was explored, which is defined as how one gets along with other people, how other people react to him/her, and how one reacts with the social institutions and societal mores.

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors evaluated the spatiotemporal distribution of trees attractive to pollinators across the streetscape of a large Brazilian metropolis with more than 2.5 million inhabitants.

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors used extensive field measurements of tree structure to estimate the impact of pruning on 8 tree species in two Italian cities: Taranto and Florence, and found that tree crowns structurally recover from pruning after 3 years, and that current urban forest pruning rates and mortality may create a situation in which a city dominated by the species studied benefits from 93.5% of the maximum ecosystem services possible.

TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper reviewed the remarkable contributions made in China to the development of urban forests and to research on urban forests, and pointed out the significance of the Forest Law of the People's Republic of China (adopted in 1984) to the establishment of urban forest in China.

TL;DR: Zhang et al. as discussed by the authors used visual clustering to identify eye movement indicators and analyzed the influence of element types, proportions and combinations on public preferences based on visual behavior differences related to landscape elements.

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors explored the relationship between socio-demographic and socio-economic characteristics and access to green space at the neighbourhood level and found that most inhabitants have less than 300 m to the nearest green space.

TL;DR: In this article , a survey of 681 individuals from different socioeconomic groups conducted in four small urban parks in Budapest, Hungary's capital, found that people living near the block parks were their primary users, but many people from distant areas also visited the parks due to their good accessibility.

TL;DR: In this article , the authors evaluated the extent to which trees reduce air and surface temperatures in urban settings across Greater Sydney, Australia and found that on average, tree shade reduced mean and maximum air temperatures by 1.1 °C and 3.7 °C, respectively.

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors investigated the effect of urban urban stressors on BVOC emission spectra, including tropospheric ozone formation and severely hampered plant communication cues under stress.

TL;DR: This paper used a mixed quantitative and qualitative approach to identify who publishes on the topic, from where, in which disciplines and journals, and what are the major themes and gaps in the literature, using thematic analyses based on keywords in VOSviewer, as well as titles and abstracts in Leximancer.

TL;DR: Wang et al. as discussed by the authors proposed a dynamic two-step floating catchment area method (D2SFCA) based on the Baidu heatmap and direction application programming interface to investigate the characteristics of and differences in UGS accessibility in the first-ring built-up area of Shenyang, China.

TL;DR: In this article , the ecological behavior of peri-urban landscape features (PLFs) systems is investigated, showing how floristic-vegetational and landscape ecology studies can inform their multi-functional phytocoenoses ecological reconfiguring.

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors examine and critically reflect on the uptake and use of biodiversity offsetting at a strategic level in urban planning in Sweden and find that more than 50% of Sweden's municipalities mention biodiversity offsets in their planning documents, targeting both regulatory offsetting and voluntary offsetting of urban green space.

TL;DR: In this paper , a typical small community park in the winter city of China was selected to study how landscape elements affect restorative benefits through the setting of seasonal virtual scenes, and the results showed that plants with rich layers and large coverage areas have a significant positive impact on human perception of recovery, vitality facilities have no significant impact on perceived recovery, and number of active people has a significant negative impact on the perceived recovery.

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors explored the changes in the proportion of repeat visitors and the distance between green spaces and visitors' places of residence after the COVID-19 pandemic.

TL;DR: Wang et al. as discussed by the authors analyzed the behavior of park visitors in Beijing based on phenological information extracted from social media data and found that there is an association between flowers and visitor volumes to urban parks, with a noticeable increase in the frequency of visits to parks especially in spring (i.e., during flowering).

TL;DR: In this article , a very high resolution land cover data was used to quantify settlement area terrestrial carbon for United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change reporting within the Land Use, Land Use Change, and Forestry sector.

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors explore the relationship between biodiversity and psychological well-being, and test the moderating effect of nature relatedness and ecological knowledge on these relationships, and demonstrate that affinity to nature is a key moderator for this relationship.