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 …

Urbanization affects landscape structure and the overall human condition in numerous
ways. Green spaces include vegetated land cover (eg, urban forests, trees, riparian zones …

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 …

Despite multiple benefits of green space for urban residents, the investigations on equality of
access to green space are scarce. Most focused on individual cities and the results were …

This study examines the distributional equity of urban tree canopy (UTC) cover for Baltimore,
MD, Los Angeles, CA, New York, NY, Philadelphia, PA, Raleigh, NC, Sacramento, CA, and …

Equitable access to urban green spaces (UGS) is an important component of social justice
and can be quantified using indices such as urban green space accessibility (UGSA) …

Growing evidence is showing that across North American cities, underprivileged populations
and racial and/or visible groups have disproportionally less access to vegetation than …

Given the important role of urban green space (UGS) playing in sustainable cities, UGS has
received extensive attention and study. However, most studies were limited to individual …

There is ample evidence that urban trees benefit the physical, mental, and social health of
urban residents. The environmental justice hypothesis posits that environmental amenities …

Links between urban green infrastructure (UGI) and public health benefits are becoming
well established. Despite this, how UGI is distributed varies widely. Although not a universal …