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Integrating habitat risk and landscape resilience in forest protection and restoration planning for biodiversity conservation Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 9.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-13 Chuandong Tan, Bo Xu, Ge Hong, Xuefei Wu
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The socio-spatial response to environmentally mitigated channelization in Southeast Asia. A longitudinal landscape pattern analysis Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 9.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-13 Xuewen Lu, Gianni Talamini
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Managing urban trees through storms in three United States cities Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 9.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-13 Stephanie Cadaval, Mysha Clarke, Lara A. Roman, Tenley M. Conway, Andrew K. Koeser, Theodore S. Eisenman
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Floral abundance and corolla length predict the importance of species in connecting urban green areas Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 9.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-10 Andréa Cardoso Araujo, Camila Silveira Souza, Vivian Akemi Nakamura, Licléia da Cruz Rodrigues, Anna Traveset
Despite the growing urbanization rate and its consequences on biodiversity and species interactions worldwide, the connection among urban green areas, performed by interacting species, is still poorly understood. We evaluated how plant and hummingbird species vary across the urban landscape of a tropical city in Brazil, identifying traits of species taking part in shared interactions between areas
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Trends in the future evolution of rural settlements in oasis-desert areas under water use simulation scenarios: Take the Hexi Corridor region of China as an example Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 9.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-07 Wenbo Zhang, Libang Ma, Hongbo Li, Xiang Wang
The uncontrolled expansion of rural settlements caused by the imbalance in the matching of land and water resources has hindered the realization of the goal of sustainable rural development in the oasis-desert area. In this study, “water resources-land resources-oasis rural settlements” are integrated into the same framework of symbiosis development, and the evolution of rural settlements in the context
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Impacts of irrigation scheduling on urban green space cooling Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 9.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-07 Pui Kwan Cheung, Kerry A. Nice, Stephen J. Livesley
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Association of urban green space with metabolic syndrome and the role of air pollution Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 9.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-03 Yi Sun, Yunli Chen, Yuanyuan Huang, Yan Luo, LiPing Yan, Sailimai Man, Canqing Yu, Jun Lv, Chuangshi Wang, Jun Wu, Heling Bao, Bo Wang, Liming Li, Hui Liu
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Park lighting after dark – is it a route or a place? How people feel in park nightscapes (experiment) Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 9.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-01 Aleksandra Lis, Magdalena Zienowicz, Zygmunt Kącki, Paweł Iwankowski, Dorota Kukowska, Vlada Shestak
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Urban spatial growth and driving mechanisms under different urban morphologies: An empirical analysis of 287 Chinese cities Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 9.1) Pub Date : 2024-05-01 Xiong He, Yuquan Zhou
Different urban morphologies significantly influence urban spatial growth, yet existing studies seldom directly address this issue. To fill this gap, we develop a novel methodology to analyze the processes and intrinsic mechanisms of urban spatial growth under varying urban morphologies. This study initially identifies urban morphologies through multisource data fusion, then examines urban spatial
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Exploring environmental equity and visitation disparities in peri-urban parks: A mobile phone data-driven analysis in Tokyo Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 9.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-30 ChengHe Guan, Yichun Zhou
Peri-urban parks play a crucial role in enhancing urban living conditions and promoting contact with nature. However, assessing environmental equity and visitor disparities in -urban parks requires a thorough understanding of visitation patterns, which has been lacking in previous research. To bridge the gap, this study utilizes mobile phone big data from over 40,000 visitors to -urban parks in Tokyo
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Financing climate adaptation in Flemish cities: Unpacking financial strategies and policy dynamics for nature-based solutions Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 9.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-29 Tara Op de Beeck, Chris den Heijer, Tom Coppens
As climate change continues to impact cities, nature-based solutions (NBS) are being advanced as important adaptation strategies for mitigating these negative effects. As is the case throughout Europe, Flemish cities have enacted adaptation policies and plans outlining the importance of NBS. Nevertheless, the implementation of NBS has been slow. Local governments identify financing as an important
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Urbanization alters the geographic patterns of passerine plumage color in China Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 9.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-26 Jiehua Yu, Haoting Duan, Baoming Zhang, Ludan Zhang, Jiekun He
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‘Blossom Buddies’ − How do flower colour combinations affect emotional response and influence therapeutic landscape design? Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 9.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-25 Liwen Zhang, Nicola Dempsey, Ross Cameron
Natural landscapes are linked to health and well-being outcomes. This research investigated emotional responses to colour in the landscape. An online questionnaire (with 715 respondents) was employed to capture participants' preferences and positive psychological reactions to key flower colours and combinations. Images were created using combinations of pansy flowers in various colours. Flower combinations
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Seeing through their eyes: Revealing recreationists’ landscape preferences through viewshed analysis and machine learning Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 9.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-25 Carl Lehto, Marcus Hedblom, Anna Filyushkina, Thomas Ranius
Planning for outdoor recreation requires knowledge about the needs and preferences of recreationists. While previous research has mainly relied on stated preferences, recent advances in spatial data collection and analysis have enabled the assessments of actual usage patterns. In this study, we explored how landscape characteristics interact with the attributes of recreationists to determine their
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Do environmental attitudes and personal characteristics influence how people perceive their exposure to green spaces? Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 9.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-23 Emma S. Rieves, Colleen E. Reid, Kate Carlson, Xiaojiang Li
This study explores the relationship between perceived and objective greenspace exposure, and how sociodemographic traits and environmental attitudes influence peoples’ perceptions of greenspace. We leveraged a cross-sectional survey on greenspace exposure among residents of Denver, CO that ran from November 2019 through April 2021. We measured objective greenspace using the average NDVI (normalized
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Does gentrification precede and follow greening? Evidence about the green gentrification cycle in Los Angeles and Chicago Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 9.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-22 Alessandro Rigolon, Timothy Collins, Junsik Kim, Michelle Stuhlmacher, Jon Christensen
The health benefits of green space have led to calls for equitable access to parks. When new green spaces are built in low-income communities, however, gentrification often ensues. The “green gentrification” literature has paid little attention to gentrification that might occur before greening. In this paper, we explore whether and under which circumstances gentrification might precede and follow
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Mapping the climate risk to urban forests at city scale Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 9.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-17 Manuel Esperon-Rodriguez, Rachael V. Gallagher, Niels Souverijns, Quentin Lejeune, Carl-Friedrich Schleussner, Mark G. Tjoelker
Climate change represents a threat to the performance and persistence of urban forests and the multiple benefits they provide to city dwellers. Here, we use a novel approach to identify species and areas at high risk of climate change using the city of Melbourne, Australia, as a case study. We derive a safety margin, calculated based on climatic tolerance to two extreme climate variables (maximum temperature
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More than a canopy cover metric: Influence of canopy quality, water-use strategies and site climate on urban forest cooling potential Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 9.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-17 Mohammad A. Rahman, Stefan Arndt, Felipe Bravo, Pui K. Cheung, Natalie van Doorn, Eleonora Franceschi, Miren del Río, Stephen J. Livesley, Astrid Moser-Reischl, Nayanesh Pattnaik, Thomas Rötzer, Heiko Paeth, Stephan Pauleit, Yakir Preisler, Hans Pretzsch, Puay Yok Tan, Shabtai Cohen, Chris Szota, Patricia R. Torquato
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When mitigation is not “just mitigation”: Defining (and diffusing) tensions between climate mitigation, adaptation, and justice Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 9.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-17 Jessica Debats Garrison, Stephanie Martinez
Using the case of wetlands in California, USA, this paper defines (and assesses strategies for advancing) an understudied corollary of maladaptation and “just adaptation”: “just mitigation.” Wetlands sequester carbon, making their conservation and restoration important for climate mitigation. They also offer co-benefits for climate adaptation, such as greenspace that mitigates the urban heat island
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Enhancing ecological network establishment with explicit species information and spatially coordinated optimization for supporting urban landscape planning and management Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 9.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-13 Zhou Shen, Haiwei Yin, Fanhua Kong, Wei Wu, Hui Sun, Jie Su, Shiqi Tian
While insightful, ecological networks (ENs) incorporated in landscape planning and management may not provide a sufficient reference for maintaining biodiversity without explicit species information and coordinated actions, particularly in urban agglomeration areas. To address this gap, we conducted a study in Southern Jiangsu to refine the habitat ranges of 25 target species within the current ecological
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Bent by the market or driven by the policy? Cracking the code of plastic-mulched farmland expansion in peri-urban Hangzhou, China Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 9.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-13 Yingnan Zhang, Lan Wu, Li Ma, Sensen Wang, Mingyang Shen
An interactive confluence of top-down state interventions and bottom-up market forces has driven a surge of plastic-mulched farmland (), especially in dynamic peri-urban agricultural landscapes, with significant implications for global food security. Nevertheless, there is a dearth of literature regarding the comprehensive policy-market mechanisms on the diffusion of plastic greenhouses. We combine
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Connecting through nature: A systematic review of the effectiveness of nature-based social prescribing practices to combat loneliness Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 9.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-11 Ashby Lavelle Sachs, Annika Kolster, Jordan Wrigley, Veronika Papon, Nerkez Opacin, Nicholas Hill, Michelle Howarth, Ursula Rochau, Laura Hidalgo, Cristina Casajuana, Uwe Siebert, Janina Gerhard, Carolyn Daher, Jill Litt
Loneliness is increasingly recognized as an urgent public health issue due to its impact on mental and physical health, and well-being. Yet, we lack comprehensive, proven strategies for confronting this global problem. There is evidence that contact with nature and greenspace reduces loneliness by facilitating belonging, social connections, and social cohesion. This review aimed to explore whether
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Landscape fragmentation constrains bumblebee nutritional ecology and foraging dynamics Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 9.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-06 E. Pioltelli, L. Guzzetti, M. Ouled Larbi, M. Labra, A. Galimberti, P. Biella
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Building equity into public park and recreation service investment: A review of public agency approaches Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 9.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-06 Helen Beck, Rachel Berney, Brian Kirk, Ken P. Yocom
In recent decades, academic and professional research has increased understanding of the importance of city and landscape planners engaging with social and environmental justice issues, including contemporary inequities inherent in the planning, distribution, use, and access of public green and open spaces. However, there is a gap between this research centering equity and the planning, development
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High-resolution satellite images reveal the prevalent positive indirect impact of urbanization on urban tree canopy coverage in South America Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 9.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-01 Jianhua Guo, Danfeng Hong, Xiao Xiang Zhu
Trees in urban areas act as carbon sinks and provide ecosystem services for residents. However, the impact of urbanization on tree coverage in South America remains poorly understood. Here, we make use of very high resolution satellite imagery to derive urban tree coverage for 882 cities in South America and developed a tree coverage impacted (TCI) coefficient to quantify the direct and indirect impacts
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Research note: View from the top: Apartment residents’ views of nature and mental wellbeing during lockdown Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 9.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-01 Sarah Foster, Alexandra Kleeman, Clover Maitland
Australia’s capital cities have experienced a rapid increase in apartment development over the past decade. The mental wellbeing of apartment residents could be more vulnerable to COVID-19 restrictions due to the unique constraints of apartment buildings and limited access to nature. We examined the relationship between residents’ self-reported view components and wellbeing after Australia’s national
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Measuring spatial inequality of urban park accessibility and utilisation: A case study of public housing developments in Auckland, New Zealand Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 9.1) Pub Date : 2024-04-01 Jessie Colbert, I-Ting Chuang, Katarzyna Sila-Nowicka
Poor spatial accessibility of urban green spaces affects disadvantaged populations, who are at greater risk of socioeconomic related health inequalities. We analyse mobile phone locational data from the Auckland Region of New Zealand to connect a user's 'home' location to nearby urban parks, specifically focusing on public housing tenants - a highly vulnerable group at greater risk of health inequalities
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Experiences with wildfire are associated with private landowners’ management decisions, relationships, and perceptions of risk Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 9.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-29 Clare Aslan, Ryan Tarver, Mark Brunson, Sam Veloz, Ben Sikes, Rebecca Epanchin-Niell
As human populations grow and anthropogenic change increases, costly wildland fires increasingly affect rural, public–private interface landscapes. Climate change, a history of fire suppression, and biological invasions are increasing fire risk in systems worldwide. Fires that ignite in one jurisdiction can spread across ownership boundaries, with the result that landscape-scale fire management and
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Evaluating the subjective perceptions of streetscapes using street-view images Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 9.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-28 Yoshiki Ogawa, Takuya Oki, Chenbo Zhao, Yoshihide Sekimoto, Chihiro Shimizu
Developing a model to evaluate urban streetscapes based on subjective perceptions is important for quantitative understanding. However, previous studies have only considered limited types of subjective perceptions, neglecting the relationships between them. Further, accurately measuring subjective perception with low computational costs for large-scale urban regions at high spatial resolutions has
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Reaching beyond GIS for comprehensive 3D visibility analysis Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 9.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-27 Rafał Wróżyński, Krzysztof Pyszny, Magdalena Wróżyńska
Visibility analyses are one of the fundamental geospatial processing tasks applied in various fields. Recent technological advancements have accelerated viewshed calculations and improved their accuracy thanks to the growing availability of high-resolution spatial data. However, limitations of standard GIS tools, primarily related to the inability to perform analyses in a fully three-dimensional environment
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Determinants of honeybee hive survival and its implications for urban biodiversity in Toronto and Montreal: A Canadian case study Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 9.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-27 Mischa Young, Georges A. Tanguay, Gavin MacGregor, Juste Rajaonson
Cities are shown to provide favourable conditions for western honeybees () by protecting them from agricultural pesticides and offering a greater diversity of flora. Nevertheless, while current research primarily focuses on the causes of pollinator – and particularly honeybee – decline, including pesticide exposure, climate change, and habitat fragmentation, little attention is dedicated to urban apiculture
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Spatial equity of urban parks from the perspective of recreational opportunities and recreational environment quality: A case study in Singapore Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 9.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-27 Ru Guo, Jessica Ann Diehl, Ran Zhang, Hongcheng Wang
Spatial equity in urban park recreational services can significantly contribute to sustainable urban planning. However, there are shortcomings in research comparing the spatial equity of different categories of parks and urban parks overall from the perspective of recreational opportunities and recreational environment quality available to residents across various neighborhoods. In this paper, emphasizing
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Associations between green space availability and youth’s physical activity in urban and rural areas across Germany Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 9.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-26 Carina Nigg, Janis Fiedler, Alexander Burchartz, Markus Reichert, Claudia Niessner, Alexander Woll, Jasper Schipperijn
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Participatory modeling for collaborative landscape and environmental planning: From potential to realization Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 9.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-26 Moira L. Zellner
Participatory modeling is a collaborative approach to formalize shared representations of a problem and, through the joint modeling process, design, and test solutions. This approach is particularly well-suited to address complex socio-environmental problems like climate change and its implications on equitable and sustainable resource management and landscape planning. Despite its potential to inform
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Post-wildfire neighborhood change: Evidence from the 2018 Camp Fire Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 9.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-26 Kathryn McConnell, Christian V. Braneon
As the number of highly destructive wildfires grows, it is increasingly important to understand the long-term changes that occur to fire-affected places. Integrating approaches from social and biophysical science, we document two forms of neighborhood change following the 2018 Camp Fire in the United States, examining the more than 17,000 residential structures within the burn footprint. We found that
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Nature on our doorstep: How do residents perceive urban parks vs. biodiverse areas? Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 9.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-23 M. Melon, P. Sikorski, P. Archiciński, E. Łaszkiewicz, A. Hoppa, P. Zaniewski, E. Zaniewska, W. Strużyński, B. Sudnik-Wójcikowska, D. Sikorska
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Climate change and real estate markets: An empirical study of the impacts of wildfires on home values in California Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 9.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-22 Hongwei Dong
This study uses a quasi-experimental design to evaluate the impacts of the major wildfires in California from 2016 to 2021 on property value at the neighborhood level, as defined by Census tracts. I construct a 12-year (2010–2021) panel data set and run spatial panel models with random effects to compare changes in home values between neighborhoods affected by wildfires and control neighborhoods identified
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A decision support system for effective implementation of agro-environmental measures targeted at small woody landscape features: The case study of Slovenia Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 9.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Ivajnšič Danijel, Pipenbaher Nataša, Grujić Veno Jaša, Donša Daša, Kaligarič Mitja, Škornik Sonja, Žiberna Igor, Čuš Jure, Recko Novak Petra, Kohek Štefan, Brumen Matej, Strnad Damjan
Years of agricultural intensification across Europe’s plains, valleys and hills had left behind a more or less generalized land use pattern dominated by profitable land cover types. Small landscape features with no direct (financial) benefit to the farmer, have been, in many cases, removed and converted to arable land. This study investigates the possibilities to integrate small woody landscape features
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Beyond just green: Explaining and predicting restorative potential of urban landscapes using panorama-based metrics Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 9.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-20 Xudong Zhang, Ervine Shengwei Lin, Puay Yok Tan, Jinda Qi, Roger Ho, Angelia Sia, Radha Waykool, Xiao Ping Song, Agnieszka Olszewska-Guizzo, Lingshuang Meng, Yue Cao
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Endangered Lomas plant communities and their potential on green roofs in Peru Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 9.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-19 Sofia Flores, Koenraad Van Meerbeek
Ongoing urbanisation and climate change threaten urban green (UG) spaces in Lima, exacerbated by conventional design and management methods. Extensive green roofs (GRs) are a promising alternative in Lima's context as they provide numerous benefits and are adapted to arid conditions. This study aimed to develop sustainable GRs in Lima by using the Lomas ecosystems as a habitat template. We analysed
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The public–private divide and seasonal variation shape bird diversity in greenspaces of two neighboring midwestern USA cities Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 9.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-19 Henry S. Pollock, Carena J. van Riper, Devin J. Goodson, Susannah B. Lerman, Mark E. Hauber
Greenspaces are increasingly valued for supporting biodiversity in urbanized landscapes. Previous research efforts have emphasized the importance of public land such as parks and nature preserves for biodiversity, yet private yards in residential neighborhoods also have great potential for species conservation. Our study considered the importance of adjacent public and private greenspaces for urban
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Progressive pollen calendar to detect long-term changes in the biological air quality of cities in the Madrid Region, Spain Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 9.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-16 Patricia Cervigón, Zuzana Ferencova, Ángel Cascón, Jorge Romero-Morte, Javier Galán Díaz, Silvia Sabariego, Margarita Torres, Adela Montserrat Gutiérrez-Bustillo, Jesús Rojo
Rhinoconjunctivitis and allergic asthma are among the most frequent diseases in the world, and pollen is their main cause. The incidence of respiratory allergic diseases is expected to grow in the coming years as a consequence of ambient pollution, changes in land use and land cover in cities, and climate change. In this context of global change, the environmental information provided by monitoring
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Just nature-based solutions and the pursuit of climate resilient urban development Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 9.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Joshua J. Cousins
Nature-based solutions (NbS) offer pathways towards climate resilient development. For cities, these pathways translate to a host of benefits to address the climate crisis, including climate change adaptation and mitigation, biodiversity protection and enhancement, and human well-being. In urban spaces, NbS are also about the design and re-design of the urban built and natural environment. This presents
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Roots of urban equality: Are low-income neighborhoods paying more for street trees? Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 9.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Hanxue Wei
This study investigates the potential influence of street trees on the single-family housing market in Seattle between 2010 and 2020, specifically examining how the relationship between the number of street trees and housing prices varies across neighborhoods with different income levels. It further discusses the policy implications for promoting environmental justice in urban tree-planting endeavors
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Impacts of mass flowering soybean on bee visitation rates of forest plants at different spatial scales Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 9.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Pablo Yair Huais, Gabriel Grilli, Leonardo Galetto
Agricultural intensification promotes the loss and fragmentation of natural habitats, and negatively affects the provision of ecosystem services such as natural pollination of native plants and crops. Also, many crops produce large flower blooms for a short period of time, and some studies have found effects of this massive flowering pulse on the abundance and foraging behavior of pollinators. Particularly
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Projections of future spatiotemporal urban 3D expansion in China under shared socioeconomic pathways Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 9.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-10 Kechao Wang, Tingting He, Wu Xiao, Runjia Yang
The 21st century is marked by urbanization, with global focus on horizontal city expansion. Yet, vertical growth lacks research due to data scarcity. This study investigates the fusion of urban building height predictions with conventional sprawl projections to offer a holistic 3D urban expansion foresight. We constructed a model for projecting urban building volume using socio-economic factors includes
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Recognising peri-urban ecosystem services in urban development policy and planning: A framework for assessing agri-ecosystem services, poverty and livelihood dynamics Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 9.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-10 Fiona Marshall, Jonathan Dolley, Ramila Bisht, Ritu Priya, Linda Waldman, Pritpal Randhawa, Jorn Scharlemann, Priyanie Amerasinghe, Rajashree Saharia, Abhinav Kapoor, Bushra Rizvi, Yasir Hamid, Meghana Arora, Ima Chopra, Kumud Sawansi Teresa
Peri-urban ecosystem services (ES) play a vital role in the health and livelihoods of urban and peri-urban residents, but have received relatively little attention in the literature to date. Here we focus on agriculture-related peri-urban ecosystem services in south Asia: examining the relationships with multiple dimensions of poverty, and cross-scale interactions that affect the livelihoods and well-being
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Key connectivity areas in the Llanganates-Sangay Ecological Corridor in Ecuador: A participative multicriteria analysis based on a landscape species Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 9.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Gorky Ríos-Alvear, Pablo Meneses, H. Mauricio Ortega-Andrade, Cinthya Santos, Aymé Muzo, Karima G. López, Alexander Griffin Bentley, Francisco Villamarín
Habitat loss and fragmentation are critical threats to biodiversity decline as they decrease the species occurrence and dispersal probability between natural habitats. Thus, promoting habitat connectivity supports species dispersal and accessibility to vital resources within the landscape, and contributes to long term population persistence. However, decision-making in human dominated landscapes challenges
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Conservation and development of the historic garden in a landscape context: A systematic literature review Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 9.1) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Jingsen Lian, Steffen Nijhuis, Gregory Bracken, Xiangyan Wu, Xiaomin Wu, Dong Chen
Although there have been numerous studies on the heritage attributes, characteristics, and values of the historic garden as a special category of cultural heritage, the is why a comprehensive review combining mainstream historic garden conservation with ways of understanding the garden in a landscape context has not been conducted. Landscape is an integrative concept that combines physical features
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A typological study of the provision and use of communal outdoor space in Australian apartment developments Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 9.1) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Julian Bolleter, Paula Hooper, Alex Kleeman, Nicole Edwards, Sarah Foster
There is a consensus that higher-density urban settings need to be accompanied by communal outdoor space (COS) to bolster the well-being of apartment residents. Nonetheless, there is a lack of studies identifying COS types in apartment buildings and systematically assessing the degree to which they provide greenery and are used by residents. In response, this study developed a COS typology for apartment
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Exploring nutrient-sensitive landscape configurations for rural communities in southern Mexico Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 9.1) Pub Date : 2024-02-22 Ivan P. Novotny, Walter A.H. Rossing, Pablo Tittonell, Mariela Fuentes-Ponce, Jeroen C.J. Groot
In Mexico, the traditional MILPA polycropping system is giving way to maize monocultures, impacting the nutritional diversity of smallholder farmers and diminishing ecosystem services. This study explores landscape alternatives to enhance nutritional self-sufficiency and environmental performance in rural communities, comparing scenarios without (S1) and with (S2) innovative cropping systems. The innovations
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The quality of Swedish adolescents’ outdoor life and its relationship with self-esteem and well-being Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 9.1) Pub Date : 2024-02-22 Mark Wales, Eva Hoff, Fredrika Mårtensson, Jan-Eric Englund
This study investigates the relationship between outdoor life and the well-being and self-esteem of Swedish adolescents aged 12–15 years old (n = 320), residing in three different living environments in the south of Sweden. The study employed a questionnaire that was administered twice during a school year that included questions on time spent outdoors, environmental quality and the perceived benefit
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Mapping potential conflicts between wilderness travel and ecological values on a national scale Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 9.1) Pub Date : 2024-02-17 Tiantian Xu, Running Chen, Steve Carver, Jiayu Wu
Human activity has been significant driving force behind global declines in remaining wilderness areas. Previous assessments of human activity have focused on long-term cumulative human pressure. However, the growing popularity of nature-based tourism has led to increased tourists’ footfall in remote wilderness areas. These short-term tourists’ activities, if not assessed and properly restricted, may
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Everyday places to get away – Lessons learned from Covid-19 lockdowns Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 9.1) Pub Date : 2024-02-17 B. Gatersleben, E. White, K.J. Wyles, S.E. Golding, G. Murrell, C. Scarles, T. Xu, B.F.T. Brockett, C. Willis
Being able to get away from everyday stressors and demands, even if close to home and just for a few minutes, is important for wellbeing. During the Covid-19 lockdown periods, people’s ability to get away changed significantly. An increase in visits to nearby natural places is well documented. Little is known about other types of places people visited to get away. An online UK survey was conducted
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Legacies of redlining lead to unequal cooling effects of urban tree canopy Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 9.1) Pub Date : 2024-02-16 Meen Chel Jung, Michael G. Yost, Andrew L. Dannenberg, Karen Dyson, Marina Alberti
Redlining—a racially discriminatory policy of systematic disinvestment established by the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation (HOLC) in the 1930s and continued until the late 1960s—still influences the contemporary landscape of cities in the US. While the heterogeneous distribution of land surface temperature and tree canopy cover between neighborhoods with different HOLC grades have been recently examined
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In plain sight: Green views from the residence and urbanites’ neighborhood satisfaction Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 9.1) Pub Date : 2024-02-10 Pieter Fonteyn, Silvie Daniels, Robert Malina, Sebastien Lizin
Recent decades have seen theoretical and empirical support being generated for a positive relationship between exposure to nature and human well-being. However, exposure to nature is diverse. It can stem from spending time in green spaces, or simply from being able to observe greenery, such as from inside one’s residence. The literature has devoted limited attention to the extent to which green views
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The impacts of racially discriminatory housing policies on the distribution of intra-urban heat and tree canopy: A comparison of racial covenants and redlining in Minneapolis, MN Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 9.1) Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Rebecca H. Walker, Bonnie L. Keeler, Kate D. Derickson
Research has demonstrated the impact of historic discriminatory mortgage lending (i.e., “redlining”) on the distribution of environmental benefits and burdens, while the environmental legacies of other racially discriminatory housing policies remain unexplored. Using a novel dataset of racial covenants in Minneapolis and its suburbs, the first complete map for any U.S. city, we find a significant positive
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Drought threatens agroforestry landscapes and dryland livelihoods in a North African hotspot of environmental change Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 9.1) Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Laura Kmoch, Aimad Bou-Lahriss, Tobias Plieninger
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When healthy aging meets Vitamin G: Assessing the associations between green space and heart health in older adults using street view and electrocardiography Landsc. Urban Plan. (IF 9.1) Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Ruoyu Wang, Guoping Dong, Yang Zhou, Tongyun Du, Guang-Hui Dong, Marco Helbich
Heart health is important for the quality of life, especially for older adults. Awareness is mounting that green space possibly matters for promoting heart health. While most studies mainly focused on the relationship between green space and cardiovascular diseases among older adults, scant attention has been paid to general heart heat measures through electrocardiography (ECG). This study aims to