Testing Removal of Carbon Dioxide, Ozone, and Atmospheric Particles by Urban Parks in Italy

Fares, Silvano; Conte, Adriano Mosca; Alivernini, Alessandro; Chianucci, Francesco; Grotti, Mirko; Zappitelli, Ilaria; Petrella, Fabio; Corona, Piermaria

doi:10.1021/acs.est.0c04740

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“…Parks are important places within the urban context as other studies have already demonstrated that their characteristics are associated with better conditions regarding thermal, visual, acoustic, and air quality domains (Cohen et al 2014 ; Fares et al 2020 ; Pioppi et al 2021 ; Jo and Jeon 2021b ). The two investigated parks showed to be different in terms of physical parameters registered when comparing them through statistical tests.…”

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“…In general, parks are key spots in urban spaces as they provide environmental and social benefits, promoting physical activities practice, reducing stress, and boosting social connections (Jiang et al 2019). Moreover, these places reduce air pollution (Fares et al 2020) and mitigate urban microclimate (Pioppi et al 2021). The cooling effects of urban parks have been extensively studied (Lu et al 2017;Yan et al 2018;Aram et al 2020;Li et al 2020).…”

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Multi-domain human-oriented approach to evaluate human comfort in outdoor environments

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Human comfort outdoors is widely investigated, but most studies explore the comfort domains singularly. This paper aimed to evaluate human comfort in parks, verifying the importance of using a multi-domain (simultaneously evaluating thermal, visual, acoustic, and air quality) and multi-disciplinary (combining environmental and social fields) approach. A walk through a pre-defined path from one park to another was repeated twice per day on four consecutive days in June, with three participants per walk. The two investigated parks are in central Italy and were chosen because they differ in their design and spatial characteristics. Environmental data were recorded with an innovative wearable device during the whole walk, and surveys were used to assess people’s perceptions of the parks. Despite observed differences in collected physical parameters, the survey’s responses were similar, and different comfort domains showed dependence on each other in the two parks. Logistic regression models were developed for each park, and they revealed that the qualitative information predicted the overall comfort level more accurately than the environmental data. In detail, the models based on environmental data resulted in R2 equal to 0.126 and 0.111 in Parks 1 and 2, respectively, whereas using the survey answers increased it up to 0.820 (Park 1) and 0.806 (Park 2). This study contributes to addressing the gap in multi-domain comfort studies outdoors and confirms the importance of using multi-disciplinary and multi-domain approaches for a complete comfort analysis, supporting holistic human-biometeorology-oriented models and forecasting opportunities that can promote improvements in urban environmental quality and liveability.

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“…Le zone urbane e peri-urbane sono sistemi in cui vive il 54% della popolazione mondiale, dove si consuma il 70% dell'energia globale e l'80% del cibo e dove vengono emessi il 75% degli inquinanti e dei gas serra (United Nations Human Settlements Programme -UN-HSP 2011). Le nuove foreste urbane, così come il recupero funzionale e la gestione della vegetazione esistente, possono avere un ruolo fondamentale nella mitigazione degli estremi climatici (attraverso la riduzione della temperatura per ombreggiamento e l'azione rinfrescante dell'evapotraspirazione -Norton et al 2015), nella riduzione dell'inquinamento atmosferico (Fares et al 2020) e nella riduzione dei fenomeni alluvionali. Le periferie sono ad oggi interessate da un problema grave quanto la deforestazione: il consumo di suolo, cioè l'occupazione di una superficie originariamente naturale, seminaturale o agricola con una copertura artificiale permanente e spesso impermeabile.…”

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The Italian forest nursery sector at the crossroads: challenges and strategies

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The Italian forest nursery sector at the crossroads: challenges and strategies The recognition of the key role of forests in contrasting the dramatic effects of climate change and biodiversity crisis is the pillar of many initiatives on a global, European, and national scale calling for afforestation campaigns. The Italian forest nursery sector is currently inadequate to meet the demand for tree seedlings for the national campaigns. Forest nursery production is characterized by regional or local companies that are remarkably different from each other in organization and efficiency. It is therefore urgent to develop a comprehensive restructuring of the entire sector to be able to respond to the specific needs of forestry projects in Italy and Europe. In this paper, we present a series of key principles and criteria aimed at guiding the renaissance of the sector. Strategic actions are proposed by integrating research, governance, public/private partnership, training, and communication. The strategic approach presented is based on a collaborative structure integrating various skills and responsibilities. The first step is an expert review of the Basic Materials (BM) included in the National Register thanks to the development of the genetic studies of forest stands and the inclusion of shrub and herbaceous species, essentials for ecosystem restoration projects counteracting the biodiversity crisis. A series of actions concerns the aspects of certification, voluntary or prescriptive, of the quality of BM, and the ultimate harmonization of national production to European standards. Particular importance needs to be devoted to the collection, evaluation, and conservation of seeds to develop innovative solutions both for the production of BM and for specific implementation phases of afforestation projects and ecosystem restoration. The governance phase might be implemented through the creation of interregional centers with the duty of collecting and conserving seeds, thus enhancing the existing experiences of outstanding regional and provincial tree nurseries with the support of the National Centers for the study and conservation of Forest Biodiversity. Furthermore, the promotion of partnerships between public and private companies and the creation of a shared and accessible national platform represent strategic actions of primary importance. A fundamental role is then assigned to the implementation of training programs and the construction of an open and incremental communication plan. Thanks to these actions it will be possible to place forest nurseries at the center of the relationships between tree planting and afforestation plans and programs, integrated forest design, implementation of new forests, and their adaptive management.

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“…The Aggregated InteRpreTation of the eneRgy balance and water dynamics for Ecosystem sErvices assessment (AIRTREE) model is a multi-layer model that couples soil, plant and atmospheric processes to simulate exchanges of CO2, H2O, O3, and PM between leaves and the atmosphere. A detailed description of the AIRTREE model can be found in Fares et al (2019Fares et al ( , 2020, so here we confine ourselves to a description of the coupled stomatal conductancephotosynthesis parameterization and ozone deposition scheme.…”

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Exploring new strategies for ozone-risk assessment: A dynamic-threshold case study

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Testing Removal of Carbon Dioxide, Ozone, and Atmospheric Particles by Urban Parks in Italy

Cited by 37 publications

References 60 publications

Multi-domain human-oriented approach to evaluate human comfort in outdoor environments

Multi-domain human-oriented approach to evaluate human comfort in outdoor environments

The Italian forest nursery sector at the crossroads: challenges and strategies

Exploring new strategies for ozone-risk assessment: A dynamic-threshold case study

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