Demand for urban forests in United States cities

Zhu, Pengyu; Zhang, Yaoqi

doi:10.1016/j.landurbplan.2007.09.005

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“…As observed by [3], tree presence reflects, to some extent, the market forces determined by the welfare of the citizens. In these neighborhoods, results indicate that the most pronounced increase of average LST was associated with the installation of surface train facilities in April 1985 and occurred in two periods.…”

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confidence: 92%

“…Conducting a study in the United States, for cities with a population over 100,000 [3], observed that urban forests were highly related to income. Considering Porto Alegre, each neighborhood has different characteristics caused by the patterns of urban development prevailing over the past decades.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Since then, soil occupation processes have been frequently demonstrated to be in disagreement with sustainable development concepts. Although there are a number of diverse definitions of urban sustainability, the core value of urban sustainability always lies in the balance of environmental, economic and social development [2,3]. However, the monitoring of local environmental problems and planning has been increasingly perceived as an institutional and governmental tool for introducing principles of sustainable development as well as for serving as urban sustainability indicators [2].…”

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confidence: 99%

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Multi-Temporal Patterns of Urban Heat Island as Response to Economic Growth Management

Gusso

Cafruni

Bordin³

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For a reliable assessment of sustainability in big cities, it is imperative to evaluate urban ecosystem conditions and the environment of the cities undergoing economic growth. Urban green spaces are valuable sources of evapotranspiration, which is generated by trees and vegetation; these spaces mitigate urban heat islands in cities. Land surface temperature (LST) is closely related to the distribution of land-use and land-cover characteristics and can be used as an indicator of urban environment conditions and development. This study evaluates the patterns of LST distribution through time by employing the thermal spatial distribution signature procedure using thermal infrared data obtained from Landsat-5 Thematic Mapper. A set of 18 images, between 1985 and 2010, OPEN ACCESSSustainability 2015, 7 3130 was used to study the urban environment during summer in 47 neighborhoods of Porto Alegre, Brazil. On a neighborhood scale, results show a non-linear inverse correlation (R² = 0.55) between vegetation index and LST. The overall average of the LST is 300.23 K (27.8 C) with a standard deviation of 1.25 K and the maximum average difference of 2.83 K between neighborhoods. Results show that the Thermal Spatial Distribution Signature (TSDS) analysis can help multi-temporal studies for the evaluation of UHI through time.

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Multi-Temporal Patterns of Urban Heat Island as Response to Economic Growth Management

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“…Competition in soil occupation processes mainly due to urbanization and industrialization has been demonstrated to be in disagreement with sustainable development concepts. Nowadays, although there are a number of diverse definitions of urban sustainability, the core value of urban sustainability always lies in the balance of environmental, economic and social development [6][7][8].…”

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“…Furthermore, urban green spaces and trees have been recognized as an important component of urban landscapes [7,8]. Several benefits can be associated with green spaces in the urban environment caused by their capacity for cooling the air [17] and reducing the available surfaces for successively radiating energy reflectance [18].…”

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Income Driven Patterns of the Urban Environment

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This study investigates the land surface temperature (LST) distribution from thermal infrared data for analyzing the characteristics of surface coverage using the Vegetation-Impervious-Soil (VIS) approach. A set of ten images, obtained from Landsat-5 Thematic Mapper, between 2001 and 2010, were used to study the urban environmental conditions of 47 neighborhoods of Porto Alegre city, Brazil. Porto Alegre has had the smallest population growth rate of all 27 state capitals in the last two decades in Brazil, with an increase of 11.55% in inhabitants from 1.263 million in 1991 to 1.409 million in 2010. We applied the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) theory in order to test the influence of the economically-related scenario on the spatial nature of social-environmental arrangement of the city at neighborhood scale. Our results suggest that the economically-related scenario exerts a non-negligible influence on the physically driven characteristics of the urban environmental conditions as predicted by EKC theory. The linear inverse correlation R 2 between household income (HI) and LST is 0.36 and has shown to be comparable to all other studied variables. Future research may investigate the relation between other economically-related indicators to specific land surface characteristics.

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Assessing Visual and Social Perceptions of Landscape

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2011

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Demand for urban forests in United States cities

Cited by 76 publications

References 28 publications

Multi-Temporal Patterns of Urban Heat Island as Response to Economic Growth Management

Multi-Temporal Patterns of Urban Heat Island as Response to Economic Growth Management

Income Driven Patterns of the Urban Environment

Assessing Visual and Social Perceptions of Landscape

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