Greenery as a mitigation and adaptation strategy to urban heat

NH Wong, CL Tan, DD Kolokotsa… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2021 - nature.com
The absence of vegetation in urban areas contributes to the establishment of the urban heat
island, markedly increasing thermal stress for residents, driving morbidity and mortality …

Heat mitigation benefits of urban green and blue infrastructures: A systematic review of modeling techniques, validation and scenario simulation in ENVI-met V4

Z Liu, W Cheng, CY Jim, TE Morakinyo, Y Shi… - Building and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Urban green and blue infrastructures (GBI) are considered an effective tool for mitigating
urban heat stress and improving human thermal comfort. Many studies have investigated the …

A social-ecological-technological systems framework for urban ecosystem services

T McPhearson, EM Cook, M Berbés-Blázquez… - One Earth, 2022 - cell.com
As rates of urbanization and climatic change soar, decision-makers are increasingly
challenged to provide innovative solutions that simultaneously address climate change …

The role of urban trees in reducing land surface temperatures in European cities

J Schwaab, R Meier, G Mussetti, S Seneviratne… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Urban trees influence temperatures in cities. However, their effectiveness at mitigating urban
heat in different climatic contexts and in comparison to treeless urban green spaces has not …

Satellite‐based evidence highlights a considerable increase of urban tree cooling benefits from 2000 to 2015

J Zhao, X Zhao, D Wu, N Meili… - Global Change …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Tree planting is a prevalent strategy to mitigate urban heat. Tree cooling efficiency (TCE),
defined as the temperature reduction for a 1% tree cover increase, plays an important role in …

Climate change and public health in California: A structured review of exposures, vulnerable populations, and adaptation measures

M Jerrett, R Connolly, DA Garcia-Gonzales… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - pnas.org
California faces several serious direct and indirect climate exposures that can adversely
affect public health, some of which are already occurring. The public health burden now and …

Can we integrate ecological approaches to improve plant selection for green infrastructure?

C Farrell, SJ Livesley, SK Arndt, L Beaumont… - Urban Forestry & Urban …, 2022 - Elsevier
Modern cities are dominated by impervious surfaces that absorb, store and release heat in
summer, create large volumes of runoff and provide limited biodiversity habitat and poor air …

[HTML][HTML] Map** the urban forest in detail: From LiDAR point clouds to 3D tree models

M Münzinger, N Prechtel, M Behnisch - Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, 2022 - Elsevier
Trees are an integral component of the urban environment and important for human well-
being, adaption measures to climate change and sustainable urban transformation …

Effects of urban morphology on thermal comfort at the micro-scale

J Zhang, Z Li, D Hu - Sustainable Cities and Society, 2022 - Elsevier
Urban morphology has significant effects on local thermal comfort. To investigate the
correlation between thermal condition and urban spatial configuration, 24 typical scenarios …

Spatial and temporal changes of outdoor thermal stress: influence of urban land cover types

MA Rahman, E Franceschi, N Pattnaik… - Scientific reports, 2022 - nature.com
Green infrastructure (GI) has emerged as a feasible strategy for promoting adaptive
capacities of cities to climate change by alleviating urban heat island (UHI) and thus heat …