The relationship between urban forests and income: A meta-analysis

E Gerrish, SL Watkins - Landscape and urban planning, 2018 - Elsevier
Urban trees provide substantial public health and public environmental benefits. However,
scholarly works suggest that urban trees may be disproportionately low in poor and minority …

Rethinking urban green infrastructure and ecosystem services from the perspective of sub-Saharan African cities

S Lindley, S Pauleit, K Yeshitela, S Cilliers… - Landscape and Urban …, 2018 - Elsevier
Urban green infrastructure and its ecosystem services are often conceptualised in terms of a
predominantly western perspective of cities and their wider social, economic and …

[HTML][HTML] Nature–based interventions for improving health and wellbeing: The purpose, the people and the outcomes

DF Shanahan, T Astell–Burt, EA Barber, E Brymer… - Sports, 2019 - mdpi.com
Engagement with nature is an important part of many people's lives, and the health and
wellbeing benefits of nature–based activities are becoming increasingly recognised across …

Urban ecology and sustainability: The state-of-the-science and future directions

J Wu - Landscape and urban planning, 2014 - Elsevier
Ecosystems and landscapes around the world have become increasingly domesticated
through urbanization. Cities have been the engines of socioeconomic development but also …

Spatial disparities in the distribution of parks and green spaces in the USA

M Wen, X Zhang, CD Harris, JB Holt… - Annals of Behavioral …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Background Little national evidence is available on spatial disparities in distributions of
parks and green spaces in the USA. Purpose This study examines ecological associations …

The role of socio-economic factors in planning and managing urban ecosystem services

ML Wilkerson, MGE Mitchell, D Shanahan, KA Wilson… - Ecosystem Services, 2018 - Elsevier
How green spaces in cities benefit urban residents depends critically on the interaction
between biophysical and socio-economic factors. Urban ecosystem services are affected by …

Toward improved public health outcomes from urban nature

DF Shanahan, BB Lin, R Bush… - … journal of public …, 2015 - ajph.aphapublications.org
There is mounting concern for the health of urban populations as cities expand at an
unprecedented rate. Urban green spaces provide settings for a remarkable range of …

The political ecology of uneven urban green space: The impact of political economy on race and ethnicity in producing environmental inequality in Milwaukee

N Heynen, HA Perkins, P Roy - Urban Affairs Review, 2006 - journals.sagepub.com
This article investigates the role of urban political economy, private-public property relations,
and race and ethnicity in the social production of Milwaukee's urban forest. By integrating …

Socioeconomics drive urban plant diversity

D Hope, C Gries, W Zhu, WF Fagan… - Proceedings of the …, 2003 - pnas.org
Spatial variation in plant diversity has been attributed to heterogeneity in resource
availability for many ecosystems. However, urbanization has resulted in entire landscapes …

Residential landscapes as social-ecological systems: a synthesis of multi-scalar interactions between people and their home environment

EM Cook, SJ Hall, KL Larson - Urban Ecosystems, 2012 - Springer
Residential landscapes are a common setting of human-environment interactions. These
ubiquitous ecosystems provide social and ecological services, and yard maintenance leads …