The cooling effect of paddy fields on summertime air temperature in residential Tokyo, Japan

Yokohari, Makoto; Brown, Robert D.; Katô, Yoshitake; Yamamoto, Shori

doi:10.1016/s0169-2046(00)00123-7

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“…The study of socio-ecological landscapes is especially important because they have sustained local societies for millennia; while at the same time they are becoming increasingly degraded due to human interference (Takeuchi et al 2003, Fukamachi et al 2001, Cetinkaya, 2009. In Japan, the term ‗satoyama' is used to denote a type of socioecological landscape that is noted for ‗mosaic' of different types of forests, shrubs or grasslands, rice paddies and other agricultural landscapes (such as vegetable gardens and fruit orchards), low elevation hills, rivers, wetlands and ponds (Fukamachi et al 2001;Yokohari et al 2001). Although this kind of landscape is not particular to Japan, it can be found all over Asia where sedentary communities have shaped landscapes over millennia (Indrawan et al 2014); its most obvious association is with the socioecological landscapes in the Japanese archipelago (Duraiappah et al 2012).…”

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Satoyama Landscapes and Their Change in A River Basin context: Lessons for Sustainability

Chakraborty

2017

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Abstract'Satoyama' denotes a mosaic of different landscape-types that has sustained agrarian societies for millennia in Japan. These landscapes have undergone degradation during the past few decades. While satoyama is a consistently referred term in landscape management in Japan, little attention is given to how such landscapes undergo change in large spatial units such as river basins. This study, based on documents and interviews, reviews how watershed level changes affect the functioning of such socioecological systems in the Kuma River Basin in Kyushu. Watershed properties of the Kuma River Basin changed during pre-modern and modern times and each phase left a lasting legacy on the landscape. The article analyzes how ecological connectivity became fragmented by identifying changes in ecosystem services, and concludes that while socio-ecological landscapes have a long history of human use; the human component cannot outgrow the fundamental biophysical processes that maintain ecosystem services and system resilience; these systems can undergo swift and irreversible degradation when ecological connectivity is fragmented. The main lesson for sustainable development is that consideration of historical changes in land use is vital for understanding the connectivity of different components in satoyama landscapes; this insight is important not only for rivers but also for the wider landscapes they connect and the associated integrity.

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Section: Introduction: Socio-ecological Landscapes and Satoyamamentioning

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Satoyama Landscapes and Their Change in A River Basin context: Lessons for Sustainability

Chakraborty

2017

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“…Trees contribute to the delivery of many ecosystem services in urban areas, such as moderation of local climate (Nowak et al 2006;Dimoudi and Nikolopoulou 2003;Yokohari et al 2001;Nowak et al 2001), stormwater management (Xiao and McPherson 2002;Bolund and Hunhammar 1999), recreation and human well-being (Todorova et al 2004), and cultural values (Alcamo et al 2003). Long-term management and renewal of urban trees is therefore crucial for sustainable urban development.…”

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“…The latter is often coupled with pest and disease monitoring and risk analysis (Raupp et al 2006). Urban tree inventories are also increasingly used by researchers to model the contribution of urban trees to ecosystem services, e.g., related their capacities to counter-act the urban heat island effect at local scales (Yokohari et al 2001;Dimoudi and Nikolopoulou 2003), reduce the energy costs for indoor winter heating and summer cooling (McPherson et al 1997), capture air pollution (McPherson et al, 1997;Nowak et al 2006); and decrease stormwater runoff (McPherson et al 1997). Urban tree inventories can also be used in determining the economic value of individual trees (CTLA 2000;Cullen 2002;Randrup 2005) and the overall economic benefits trees provide to urban societies (Maco and McPherson 2003;i-Tree 2012).…”

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Grading of Parameters for Urban Tree Inventories by City Officials, Arborists, and Academics Using the Delphi Method

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Tree inventories are expensive to conduct and update, so every inventory carried out must be maximized. However, increasing the number of constituent parameters increases the cost of performing and updating the inventory, illustrating the need for careful parameter selection. This paper reports the results of a systematic expert rating of tree inventories aiming to quantify the relative importance of each parameter. Using the Delphi method, panels comprising city officials, arborists and academics rated a total of 148 parameters. In order of total mean score, the top ranking parameters, which can serve as a guide for decision-making at practical level and for standardization of tree inventories, were: Scientific name of the tree species and genera, Vitality, Coordinates, Hazard class and Identification number.The study also examined whether the different responsibilities and usage of urban tree databases among organizations and people engaged in urban tree inventories affected their prioritization. The results revealed noticeable dissimilarities in the ranking of parameters between the panels, underlining the need for collaboration between the research community and those commissioning, administrating and conducting inventories. Only by applying such a transdisciplinary approach to parameter selection can urban tree inventories be strengthened and made more relevant.

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“…This could possibly been explained by the differences in the habitat that these plants have. Whereas Medicago, Arabidopsis, poplar and sorghum grow on dry lands, rice grows in water covered paddy fields where temperature is usually lower than 35--40 °C, due to the constant vaporisation of water (Yokohari et al 2001).…”

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“…For the latter evaporation of water from the paddy fields, accounting for a slightly cooler microclimate (Yokohari et al 2001), might be the reason for an evolutionary adjustment of the enzymatic parameters towards higher activities at lower temperatures.…”

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Dissecting the role of Arabidopsis thaliana AMIDASE 1 in auxin biosynthesis

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The cooling effect of paddy fields on summertime air temperature in residential Tokyo, Japan

Cited by 66 publications

References 14 publications

Satoyama Landscapes and Their Change in A River Basin context: Lessons for Sustainability

Satoyama Landscapes and Their Change in A River Basin context: Lessons for Sustainability

Grading of Parameters for Urban Tree Inventories by City Officials, Arborists, and Academics Using the Delphi Method

Dissecting the role of Arabidopsis thaliana AMIDASE 1 in auxin biosynthesis

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