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Air pollution removal by urban trees and shrubs in the United States
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A modeling study using hourly meteorological and pollution concentration data from across the coterminous United States demonstrates that urban trees remove large amounts of air pollution that consequently improve urban air quality.About:
This article is published in Urban Forestry & Urban Greening.The article was published on 2006-04-03. It has received 1865 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Air quality index & Pollution.read more
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Urban green space, public health, and environmental justice: The challenge of making cities ‘just green enough’
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors reviewed the Anglo-American literature on urban green space, especially parks, and compared efforts to green US and Chinese cities and found that the distribution of such space often disproportionately benefits predominantly white and more affluent communities.
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Nature and Health
TL;DR: This work focuses on nature as represented by aspects of the physical environment relevant to planning, design, and policy measures that serve broad segments of urbanized societies and considers research on pathways between nature and health involving air quality, physical activity, social cohesion, and stress reduction.
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Effect of exposure to natural environment on health inequalities: an observational population study
Richard Mitchell,Frank Popham +1 more
TL;DR: The association between income deprivation and mortality differed significantly across the groups of exposure to green space for mortality from all causes and circulatory disease, but not from lung cancer or intentional self-harm, which suggests physical environments that promote good health might be important to reduce socioeconomic health inequalities.
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Effect of exposure to natural environment on health inequalities : an observational population study. Commentary
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the relationship between income deprivation and mortality in the UK and found that those living in the greenest areas had the lowest levels of health inequality related to income deprivation.
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Urban forests and pollution mitigation: analyzing ecosystem services and disservices.
TL;DR: Development of urban forest management alternatives that mitigate pollution should consider scale, contexts, heterogeneity, management intensities and other social and economic co-benefits, tradeoffs, and costs affecting stakeholders and urban sustainability goals.
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Parameterization of surface resistances to gaseous dry deposition in regional-scale numerical models
TL;DR: In this article, the authors proposed a method for estimating the dry deposition velocities of atmospheric gases in the U.S. and surrounding areas and incorporated it into a revised computer code module for use in numerical models of atmospheric transport and deposition of pollutants over regional scales.
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The role of biogenic hydrocarbons in urban photochemical smog: Atlanta as a case study.
TL;DR: The effects of natural hydrocarbons must be considered in order to develop a reliable plan for reducing ozone in the urban atmosphere and previous investigators may have overestimated the effectiveness of an ozone abatement strategy based on reducing anthropogenic hydrocarbon.
Chicago's urban forest ecosystem: Results of the Chicago Urban Forest Climate Project. (Includes executive summary). Forest Service general technical report (Final)
TL;DR: The 3-year Chicago Urban Forest Climate Project showed that there are approximately 50.8 million trees in the Chicago area of Cook and DuPage Counties; 66 percent of these trees rated in good or excellent condition as discussed by the authors.
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A canopy stomatal resistance model for gaseous deposition to vegetated surfaces
TL;DR: In this article, a gaseous deposition model based on a realistic canopy stomatal resistance submodel is described, analyzed and tested, which is designed as one of a hierarchy of simulations, leading up to a "big-leaf" model of the processes contributing to the exchange of trace gases between the atmosphere and vegetated surfaces.
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Atmospheric Deposition of Nutrients and Pollutants in North America: An Ecological Perspective
TL;DR: In this article, the authors summarize the current understanding of atmospheric deposition processes, measurement methods, and patterns of deposition in North America, and present a suite of different methods to evaluate dry deposition fluxes of the various elements important to ecosystems.