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Field investigation of roadside vegetative and structural barrier impact on near-road ultrafine particle concentrations under a variety of wind conditions
Gayle S.W. Hagler,Ming Yeng Lin,Andrey Khlystov,Richard Baldauf,Richard Baldauf,Vlad Isakov,James Faircloth,Laura E. Jackson +7 more
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Findings support the notion that solid roadside barriers may mitigate near-road impact and encourage research regarding the mitigation potential of vegetative barriers of other configurations (e.g., greater density, wider buffer).About:
This article is published in Science of The Total Environment.The article was published on 2012-03-01. It has received 171 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Noise barrier.read more
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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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Health and climate related ecosystem services provided by street trees in the urban environment
Jennifer Salmond,Marc Tadaki,Sotiris Vardoulakis,Sotiris Vardoulakis,Sotiris Vardoulakis,Katherine Arbuthnott,Katherine Arbuthnott,Andrew M. Coutts,Andrew M. Coutts,Matthias Demuzere,Matthias Demuzere,Matthias Demuzere,Kim N. Dirks,Clare Heaviside,Clare Heaviside,Shanon Lim,Helen L. Macintyre,Rachel N. McInnes,Rachel N. McInnes,Benedict W. Wheeler +19 more
TL;DR: By ensuring that the specific aim of the intervention, the scale of the desired biophysical effect and an awareness of a range of impacts guide the choice of tree species, location and density of tree placement, street trees can be an important tool for urban planners and designers in developing resilient and resourceful cities in an era of climatic change.
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The nexus between air pollution, green infrastructure and human health.
Prashant Kumar,Prashant Kumar,Angela Druckman,John Gallagher,Birgitta Gatersleben,Sarah J. Allison,Theodore S. Eisenman,Uy Hoang,Sarkawt Hama,Arvind Kumar Tiwari,Ashish Sharma,K.V. Abhijith,Deepti Adlakha,Aonghus McNabola,Thomas Astell-Burt,Xiaoqi Feng,Anne C. Skeldon,Simon de Lusignan,Lidia Morawska +18 more
TL;DR: It is concluded that urban vegetation can facilitate broad health benefits, but there is little empirical evidence linking these benefits to air pollution reduction by urban vegetation, and appreciable efforts are needed to establish the underlying policies, design and engineering guidelines governing its deployment.
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View through a window may influence recovery from surgery
TL;DR: Surgical patients assigned to rooms with windows looking out on a natural scene had shorter postoperative hospital stays, received fewer negative evaluative comments in nurses' notes, and took fewer potent analgesics than matched patients in similar Rooms with windows facing a brick building wall.
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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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At Home with Nature: Effects of “Greenness” on Children’s Cognitive Functioning
TL;DR: The nearby natural environment plays a far more significant role in the well-being of children residing in poor urban environments than has previously been recognized as discussed by the authors, using a premove/postmove long...
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Near-Roadway Air Quality: Synthesizing the Findings from Real-World Data
TL;DR: Two types of normalization, background and edge-of-road, were applied to the observed concentrations, and differences between the normalization methods arose due to the likely bias inherent in background normalization.
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Urban woodlands: their role in reducing the effects of particulate pollution.
TL;DR: The role of vegetation and urban woodlands in reducing the effects of particulate pollution is reviewed here and the improvement of urban air quality achieved by establishing more trees in towns and cities is illustrated.