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Does urban vegetation mitigate air pollution in northern conditions
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The results suggest that the ability of urban vegetation to remove air pollutants is minor in northern climates, and vegetation-related environmental variables did not explain the variation in pollution concentrations.About:
This article is published in Environmental Pollution.The article was published on 2013-12-01. It has received 181 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Air quality index & Pollution.read more
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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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Review on urban vegetation and particle air pollution – Deposition and dispersion
TL;DR: In this paper, a review revealed that design and choice of urban vegetation is crucial when using vegetation as an ecosystem service for air quality improvements, while low vegetation close to sources can improve air quality by increasing deposition.
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Mitigating and adapting to climate change: Multi-functional and multi-scale assessment of green urban infrastructure
Matthias Demuzere,Kati Orru,Kati Orru,Oliver Heidrich,Eduardo Olazabal,Davide Geneletti,Hans Orru,Ajay Gajanan Bhave,Neha Mittal,Efren Feliu,Maija Faehnle +10 more
TL;DR: A framework of ecosystem services is suggested for systematizing the evidence on the provision of bio-physical benefits as well as social and psychological benefits that enable coping with or reducing the adverse effects of climate change.
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Air pollution abatement performances of green infrastructure in open road and built-up street canyon environments – A review
K.V. Abhijith,Prashant Kumar,John Gallagher,John Gallagher,Aonghus McNabola,Richard Baldauf,Francesco Pilla,Brian Broderick,Silvana Di Sabatino,Beatrice Pulvirenti +9 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined published literature on neighbourhood air quality modifications by green interventions and provided a better understanding of the interactions between vegetation and surrounding built-up environments and ascertain means of reducing local air pollution exposure using green infrastructure.
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Benefits of restoring ecosystem services in urban areas
Thomas Elmqvist,Heikki Setälä,Steven N. Handel,S. van der Ploeg,James Aronson,James Aronson,James Nelson Blignaut,Erik Gómez-Baggethun,David J. Nowak,Jakub Kronenberg,R. de Groot +10 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present the results of an analysis of benefits of ecosystem services in urban areas and show that investing in ecological infrastructure in cities, and the ecological restoration and rehabilitation of ecosystems such as rivers, lakes, and woodlands occurring in urban area, may not only be ecologically and socially desirable, but also quite often, economically advantageous, even based on the most traditional economic approaches.
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Air pollution removal by urban trees and shrubs in the United States
TL;DR: 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.
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Biogenic Volatile Organic Compounds (VOC): An Overview on Emission, Physiology and Ecology
TL;DR: In this article, an overview of the actual knowledge of the biogenic emissions of some volatile organic compounds (VOCs), i.e., isoprene, terpenes, alkanes, alkenes, carbonyls, alcohols, esters, and acids, is presented.