The 2024 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: facing record-breaking threats from delayed action

M Romanello, M Walawender, SC Hsu, A Moskeland… - The Lancet, 2024 - thelancet.com
Executive summary Despite the initial hope inspired by the 2015 Paris Agreement, the world
is now dangerously close to breaching its target of limiting global multiyear mean heating to …

Exposure ecology drives a unified understanding of the nexus of (urban) natural ecosystem, ecological exposure, and health

Z Yu, G Yang, T Lin, B Zhao, Y Xu, X Yao… - Ecosystem Health …, 2024 - spj.science.org
The intersection of ecology and exposure science with health concerns has led to a gradual
infiltration of these disciplines. Exposure to (urban) natural ecosystems, defined as …

Improved human greenspace exposure equality during 21st century urbanization

S Wu, B Chen, C Webster, B Xu, P Gong - Nature Communications, 2023 - nature.com
Greenspace plays a crucial role in urban ecosystems and has been recognized as a key
factor in promoting sustainable and healthy city development. Recent studies have revealed …

Green spaces provide substantial but unequal urban cooling globally

Y Li, JC Svenning, W Zhou, K Zhu, JF Abrams… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Climate warming disproportionately impacts countries in the Global South by increasing
extreme heat exposure. However, geographic disparities in adaptation capacity are unclear …

Very fine spatial resolution urban land cover map** using an explicable sub-pixel map** network based on learnable spatial correlation

D He, Q Shi, J Xue, PM Atkinson, X Liu - Remote Sensing of Environment, 2023 - Elsevier
Sub-pixel map** is the prevailing approach for dealing with the mixed pixel effect in urban
land use/land cover classification, by reconstructing the sub-pixel-scale distribution inside …

Quantifying the impact of urban trees on land surface temperature in global cities

T He, Y Hu, A Guo, Y Chen, J Yang, M Li… - ISPRS Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Urban trees are not only a core component of natural infrastructure but also an effective way
to mitigate urban heat with nature-based solutions. Comprehensively revealing the cooling …

The relationship between green space accessibility by multiple travel modes and housing prices: A case study of Bei**g

D Tian, J Wang, C ** of 34 major cities in China based on the deep learning framework
Q Shi, M Liu, A Marinoni, X Liu - Earth System Science Data …, 2022 - essd.copernicus.org
Urban green space (UGS) is an important component in the urban ecosystem and has great
significance to the urban ecological environment. Although the development of remote …

Simulating the impact of urban expansion on ecosystem services in Chinese urban agglomerations: A multi-scenario perspective

W Chen, G Wang, T Gu, C Fang, S Pan, J Zeng… - Environmental Impact …, 2023 - Elsevier
Urban agglomerations (UAs) are the most active areas of urban land expansion. The
encroachment of urban land on large-scale ecological land has caused severe ecological …

The 2022 South America report of The Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: trust the science. Now that we know, we must act

SM Hartinger, M Yglesias-González… - The Lancet Regional …, 2023 - thelancet.com
Executive summary The health of South American populations is being severely impacted
by increasing climate change-driven environmental changes. Exacerbated by increased …