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{"title":"Exploring multiscale relationships between environmental characteristics and recreational trail-based activities in urban natural areas: A regional study leveraging user-generated big data and machine learning","authors":"Ping Chang,&nbsp;Hans Skov-Petersen,&nbsp;Anton Stahl Olafsson","doi":"10.1016/j.ufug.2025.128869","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ufug.2025.128869","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Human recreational behaviours in nature represent context- and scale-dependent phenomena. Sustainable urban planning and natural resource management call for effective interventions that target local contexts, which require a refined understanding of human-nature interactions. However, existing studies have failed to concurrently examine multiple spatial scales, nonlinearity and spatial variation in these associations. This study leveraged big data (i.e., Strava sports tracking data for running and cycling) and advanced machine learning techniques (partial dependence plots and geographically weighted random forest) to disentangle the complex relationships between environmental characteristics and recreational activities. Key findings from our study include: (1) the influence of environmental variables on running and cycling varies across perceptual scales, as represented by route-based and survey-based navigation; (2) moreover, specific scales are more appropriate for characterising these relationships; and (3) important variables were identified both at the local level and across the region for running and cycling. Our study proposed multiscale approaches for modelling and understanding the effects of environmental characteristics. The results reinforce the need for context-specific strategies in urban planning. Practical considerations are provided for the planning and design of urban natural areas to promote recreational trail-based activities.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49394,"journal":{"name":"Urban Forestry & Urban Greening","volume":"110 ","pages":"Article 128869"},"PeriodicalIF":6.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144090107","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Evaluation and monetisation of ecosystem services with real-time weather data and machine learning","authors":"Martha Kogler ,&nbsp;Bernhard Scharf ,&nbsp;Christian Göschl ,&nbsp;Markus Jech ,&nbsp;Ulrike Pitha ,&nbsp;Rosemarie Stangl","doi":"10.1016/j.ufug.2025.128860","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ufug.2025.128860","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Urban Green Infrastructures (GI) and Nature-based Solutions (NBS) play an essential role in the adaptation of urban spaces to climate change. However, implementation has been very low so far because there are uncertainties regarding their effects and benefits. In this context, we developed a method to evaluate and monetise current ecosystem services (ESS) provided by such GI. Our approach links current weather data with the <em>greenpass</em> technology via machine learning. This cloud-based method was tested and applied with a case study focusing on a perimeter building in Vienna, Austria. The GI applied were trees, green roofs, façade greenings, lawn, shrubs and perennials. The ESS include impacts on urban climate, energy balance of adjacent buildings, water balance and sewer system relief, CO₂ sequestration and O₂ production, as well as designation of the impact on property value. For the Viennese case study, regular benefits from ESS provided by the applied GI add up to € 340,000.- per year, while a one-time increase in property value results in € 1073,600.- for the whole perimeter. Knowing the value of GI supports city administrations and large companies to predict and record the benefits and include them in the accounting. Cost-benefit considerations become easier and financial reservations or barriers for implementation of GI can be overcome.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49394,"journal":{"name":"Urban Forestry & Urban Greening","volume":"111 ","pages":"Article 128860"},"PeriodicalIF":6.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144123314","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The case for urban agriculture: Opportunities for sustainable development","authors":"Hannah Joy Thwaites ,&nbsp;Isobel Violet Hume ,&nbsp;Timothy Richard Cavagnaro","doi":"10.1016/j.ufug.2025.128861","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ufug.2025.128861","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This review examines the potential role of urban agriculture – the practice of farming within and around cities and densely populated areas – in addressing the pressing challenge of sustainable development, correlated to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). As a set of 17 interconnected goals designed to guide action towards a sustainable and equitable future, the SDGs represent a call to action for all countries and highlight the most pressing challenges and opportunities of today. In recognising that the function and impacts of sustainably and equitably feeding the world’s population are inherent to many of the goals, an interrogation of literature about food supply from within the urban environment (where most people live) has been conducted to support the research aim of considering urban agriculture as a strategy to help achieve urban sustainability and resilience goals. Through a narrative review approach this novel investigation extends beyond the constraints of narrow SDG-centric literature to sustainable development more broadly, finding that urban agriculture is highly valued for its ability to strengthen local food systems and its ecosystem service contributions to urban sustainability, along with socio-cultural attributes. This review depicts practices, highlights multifarious benefits, and features potential perverse outcomes and considerations; in the process identifying that the strongest and deepest connections between urban agriculture and sustainable development are with three specific goals: SDG 2 (Zero Hunger), SDG 11 (Sustainable Cities and Communities), and SDG 12 (Responsible Consumption and Production). Accordingly, the insights gleaned from this narrative review have been structured to reflect the connections with these three SDGs and related to the human- and systems-centric themes of <em>People</em> and <em>Planet</em>. Overall, sensitively applied urban agriculture can strengthen food security, reduce the overall impact of cities, and contribute to the circularity of production and consumption systems, helping to achieve global sustainable development aims.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49394,"journal":{"name":"Urban Forestry & Urban Greening","volume":"110 ","pages":"Article 128861"},"PeriodicalIF":6.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144105461","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The role of university campus landscape characteristics in students’ mental health","authors":"Koorosh Aghabozorgi ,&nbsp;Alexander van der Jagt ,&nbsp;Simon Bell ,&nbsp;Harry Smith","doi":"10.1016/j.ufug.2025.128863","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ufug.2025.128863","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>University students frequently suffer from mental health challenges such as stress, depression, and anxiety during their studies. It is therefore crucial to offer spaces and landscapes on the university campus that offer mental restoration and promote well-being, given the substantial time spent there. Prior research has explored the impact of exposure to campus landscape on students' mental health and the types of spaces that could support activities with potential health benefits. However, further investigation is needed into the specific landscape characteristics that encourage space use and support students’ mental well-being. To address this knowledge gap, we explored how the characteristics of campus outdoor spaces affect students’ preferences concerning spaces they like and dislike to visit, and the subsequent effects on their mental health. We employed a Public Participatory Geographic Information System (PPGIS) approach, focusing on Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh campus in Scotland. Our findings indicate that students exhibit consistent preferences for areas on campus with a high level of greenery, diverse trees and flowers, views of blue spaces, peacefulness, quietness, pleasant smells, and sounds, as well as the presence of benches and tables. These characteristics were also found to facilitate restorative experiences. Conversely, the absence of these elements serves as barriers to students visiting outdoor spaces on campus. The results also revealed that students typically visit their preferred blue/green campus landscapes twice a week for 10–30-minutes on average, which was sufficient to experience the reported mental health benefits as measured through self-reported restorative outcomes. These insights offer valuable implications for the design and development of restorative university campuses.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49394,"journal":{"name":"Urban Forestry & Urban Greening","volume":"111 ","pages":"Article 128863"},"PeriodicalIF":6.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144116523","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"From sky to ground: Monitoring visible street greenery via multisource remote sensing imagery with deep learning","authors":"Yibin Ma ,&nbsp;Pengfei Chen ,&nbsp;Yuetong Qin ,&nbsp;Zhifeng Yang ,&nbsp;Shaodong Li","doi":"10.1016/j.ufug.2025.128866","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ufug.2025.128866","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The Green View Index (GVI) is a critical metric for assessing urban environments and has significant implications for enhancing residents’ well-being and promoting urban ecological health. Extracting GVI using street view images (SVIs) is a common practice. However, since urban street greenery generally undergoes a continuous change over time, solely using SVIs that are spatiotemporally sparse would fail to comprehensively capture the dynamics of GVI, potentially introducing biases into related research and policy-making. To fill that gap, this study proposes a new framework to estimate GVI using multi-source satellite imagery and deep learning technique. We first derive GVI information from SVI data collected along road networks and employ a spatiotemporal matching approach to establish paired samples linking GVI with remote sensing (RS) imagery. Subsequently, we develop a multi-task deep learning model with channel attention mechanisms for refined GVI estimation. Furthermore, leveraging the physical properties of GVI, we integrate multiple knowledge-based features with the raw RS bands as inputs to enhance the learning efficiency and overall performance of the model. Experimental results in Shanghai and Nanjing, China, show that the <span><math><msup><mrow><mi>R</mi></mrow><mrow><mn>2</mn></mrow></msup></math></span> value of the GVI estimates against actual values can reach 0.716 at the point level and 0.834 at the street level. This study validates the feasibility of using satellite imagery to monitor GVI, offering robust technical and data foundations for evaluating urban greening and advancing environmental health studies.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49394,"journal":{"name":"Urban Forestry & Urban Greening","volume":"109 ","pages":"Article 128866"},"PeriodicalIF":6.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144067203","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"“It is not a complicated question but it is very complex” – Insights on school ground greening from practitioners","authors":"Sanna Ignell,&nbsp;Björn Wiström,&nbsp;Anna Levinsson,&nbsp;Märit Jansson","doi":"10.1016/j.ufug.2025.128867","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ufug.2025.128867","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>School ground vegetation supports children’s health, learning, and ecosystems but faces challenges in implementation and management, with limited research addressing the entire greening process. This study investigates what green practitioners in Sweden experience as challenges when implementing and managing school ground vegetation. Expert interviews were conducted with 26 experienced practitioners and revealed issues across the implementation chain. Challenges were categorized into direct and indirect factors. Direct factors included practical concerns such as avoiding monocultures, preventing soil compaction, and differing opinions on species selection, planting size, fencing, and managing children’s movement. Indirect factors focused on lack of knowledge of either the benefits of vegetation or what is needed for its establishment among the actors surrounding the respondents. Using the Policy Arrangement Approach, the study analysed how actors, rules, resources, and discourses shape implementation. The analysis highlighted the significance of regulations and the need for increased knowledge of both outdoor pedagogy and vegetation requirements.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49394,"journal":{"name":"Urban Forestry & Urban Greening","volume":"110 ","pages":"Article 128867"},"PeriodicalIF":6.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144071133","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Information-seeking behavior about multiple stressors for roadside forest management","authors":"Emlyn R.H. Crocker,&nbsp;Anita T. Morzillo","doi":"10.1016/j.ufug.2025.128865","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ufug.2025.128865","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The combination of diverse land uses and multiple biophysical stressors brings complexity to forest management, particularly along roadways. Managers and landowners may seek information and resources to address property-level challenges that occur in such contexts. However, little is known about information-seeking behavior among professionals in the forest management community. Our objective was to examine knowledge transfer within the context of information-seeking behavior of forest management professionals in Connecticut (United States) in relation to addressing multiple forest stressors and roadside forest management. Semi-structured interviews were completed with 39 stakeholders in the Connecticut professional forest management community. Interview topics included participant and land type characteristics, management objectives, forest stressors and impacts, and information-seeking behavior. Results of qualitative analysis supported a conceptual framework that presented information seeking as an iterative feedback loop influenced by information needs, sources, availability, and utility. Participants sought and validated information from both tacit and explicit sources across multiple spatial scales. Information about forest conditions and stressor-related impacts applicable to the local context were of particular interest. All participants sought knowledge from colleagues, but some felt that their own expertise was undervalued. Knowledge transfer may be enhanced through co-production of knowledge and investment in boundary spanning individuals.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49394,"journal":{"name":"Urban Forestry & Urban Greening","volume":"110 ","pages":"Article 128865"},"PeriodicalIF":6.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144090108","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Evaluating the biodiversity of green roofs in Hong Kong by benchmarking natural sites","authors":"Yang Chen ,&nbsp;Jia Wang ,&nbsp;Weiqi Zhou ,&nbsp;Yuhong Wang ,&nbsp;Wenbo Ding ,&nbsp;Shaofen Xu","doi":"10.1016/j.ufug.2025.128856","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ufug.2025.128856","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>As urbanization intensifies, maintaining and enhancing biodiversity within limited urban spaces becomes increasingly challenging and critical. Urban green roofs have emerged as an important opportunity for expanding green spaces and conserving biodiversity. This study evaluated the biodiversity of green roofs in Hong Kong by benchmarking comparable natural sites. Over the course of a year, we monitored species composition at eight green roofs and eight natural sites, focusing on four biological groups: plants, butterflies, birds, and bees/wasps. The findings indicate that while green roofs can contribute to urban biodiversity, they often fall short compared to natural habitats, particularly in supporting native plant species and butterflies. At the natural sites, about 2/3 of plants are native, whereas those on the green roofs are mainly alien species. Overall, green roofs achieved 66 % of the plant species richness and 27 % of the butterfly species richness observed at natural sites. The natural sites and green roofs also differ greatly in the distributions of main plant families and life forms. The findings reveal strong and significant correlations between butterfly richness and butterfly diversity and a variety of plant traits. This study highlights the necessity for strategic planning of urban green roofs, including identification of the key species for conservation, prioritization of native plant species, and enhancement of habitat complexity. The findings offer insights for urban planners and policymakers seeking to foster resilient and diverse ecosystems within compact cities.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49394,"journal":{"name":"Urban Forestry & Urban Greening","volume":"110 ","pages":"Article 128856"},"PeriodicalIF":6.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144067221","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Mapping the urban landscape at multiple ecological scales","authors":"Luca Francesco Russo ,&nbsp;Marco Andrello ,&nbsp;Matteo Giuliani ,&nbsp;Leonardo Ancillotto ,&nbsp;Marta Carboni ,&nbsp;Greta La Bella ,&nbsp;Francesca Martelli ,&nbsp;Luca Santini","doi":"10.1016/j.ufug.2025.128849","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ufug.2025.128849","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Urbanization is increasing worldwide, driving the expansion of urban areas and resulting in habitat loss, fragmentation, and changes in environmental conditions. Despite these pressures, urban landscapes can still support biodiversity, provide essential ecosystem services and contribute to conservation. Several metrics exist to characterize landscapes, but the spatial scale at which they are relevant depends on species ecology or on the ecological process of interest. Rome, one of Europe’s oldest cities, has experienced continuous urbanization over centuries while maintaining a remarkable level of greenery. This study explores the landscape structure in Rome using a multi-scale approach. We analyze key landscape metrics—Green Area Proportion, Edge Density, Shannon Diversity Index, and Edge Distance—across four spatial scales (10 m, 50 m, 250 m, and 1250 m), which are relevant for the ecology of a wide variety of plant and animal organisms that occur in the city. We show that these landscape metrics can be summarized by two major axes representing urbanization and fragmentation, respectively, and allow for grouping Rome green areas into three types (homogeneous green areas, highly impervious areas, and impervious surfaces interspersed with small green spaces). The high-resolution raster data generated in this study can lay the foundation to test how these axes at different scales and theresulting landscape types can shape urban species assemblages</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49394,"journal":{"name":"Urban Forestry & Urban Greening","volume":"110 ","pages":"Article 128849"},"PeriodicalIF":6.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144067222","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Urbanisation and specifically impervious cover alter riparian plant communities in a rapidly urbanising landscape in the Himalayas","authors":"Karma Jamtsho,&nbsp;Mark A. Lund,&nbsp;David Blake,&nbsp;Eddie Van Etten","doi":"10.1016/j.ufug.2025.128862","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ufug.2025.128862","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Impervious covers, such as roads, pavements, buildings, and parking lots, prevent water infiltration, thereby increasing surface runoff. The expansion of impervious cover along riverbanks in urban areas poses a significant threat to riparian ecosystems by altering species diversity and composition through hydrological changes. As dynamic ecosystems at the interface between aquatic and terrestrial environments, riparian areas play a crucial role in aquatic ecology, particularly in terms of biodiversity, bank stability, nutrient dynamics, and hydrological processes. Employing plot-based floristic sampling, this study investigated the effects of urbanisation, particularly impervious cover (quantified as PTIA, Percentage of Total Impervious Area), on riparian plant communities in the rapidly urbanising landscapes of Thimphu City, Bhutan. Additionally, other environmental variables and soil chemical properties were examined to determine whether they confounded the impacts of PTIA. The results showed that PTIA had a significant impact on the diversity and composition of riparian plant communities. Overall, higher levels of PTIA supported a greater number of plant species, including exotic species, but exhibited the lowest α-diversity and reduced tree abundance compared to reference sites (<em>p</em> &lt; 0.001). These areas favoured <em>Rumex nepalensis</em>–<em>Equisetum</em> spp. community, while low PTIA supported the <em>Calamagrostis scabrescens</em>–<em>Elaeagnus umbellata</em> community. Significant changes in species diversity and community structure were observed at a PTIA threshold of approximately 60 % (<em>p</em> &lt; 0.05), indicating substantial ecological alterations beyond this point. Except for soil pH, which influenced plant communities independently rather than confounding PTIA’s effects, other environmental variables and soil chemical properties did not have any significant effects on riparian plant communities. Our study revealed that PTIA was the primary predictor for changes in plant communities in rapidly developing urban riparian landscapes. The relationship between PTIA and plant communities highlights the importance of considering PTIA in urban biodiversity management, as it can predict the extent of vegetated land required to sustain healthy riparian ecosystems. These findings suggest that rapidly urbanising cities can realign their urban development and riparian biodiversity management strategies by assessing existing impervious cover and establishing appropriate PTIA thresholds to balance urban growth with the conservation of riparian environments.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49394,"journal":{"name":"Urban Forestry & Urban Greening","volume":"110 ","pages":"Article 128862"},"PeriodicalIF":6.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144105318","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}