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Living with a hot desert climate in Dhahran 生活在达兰炎热的沙漠气候中

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Nature Cities Pub Date : 2026-10-15 DOI: 10.1038/s44284-026-00522-z

Noman Sahito

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The urban environment as a determinant of health 城市环境是健康的决定因素

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Nature Cities Pub Date : 2026-10-15 DOI: 10.1038/s44284-026-00538-5

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Revisiting the urban past virtually to enhance well-being for older adults 重新审视城市的过去，以提高老年人的幸福感

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Nature Cities Pub Date : 2026-10-09 DOI: 10.1038/s44284-026-00523-y

Jingting Huang, Yifei Li, Richard William Allen, Jeffrey Shaw, Linyan Li

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Urban memory and mental health 城市记忆和心理健康

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Nature Cities Pub Date : 2026-10-09 DOI: 10.1038/s44284-026-00526-9

Bin Jiang

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Coordinated routing improves travel times and cuts emissions 协调路线可以缩短旅行时间并减少排放

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Nature Cities Pub Date : 2026-10-08 DOI: 10.1038/s44284-026-00539-4

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Systematic overview of climate actions for health in cities 气候行动促进城市健康的系统概述

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Nature Cities Pub Date : 2026-09-29 DOI: 10.1038/s44284-026-00515-y

Emma Hutchinson, Tobias Magnus Schuster, Melanie Crane, James Milner, Kristine Belesova, Roberto Picetti, Simon Lloyd, Catalina Turcu, Jane Falconer, Blanca Anton, Rebecca Newbould, Lorna Benton, Tamzin Reynolds, Peninah Murage, Vidushi Bahl, Ai Milojevic, Samaryah Sammut, Mike Davies, Paul Wilkinson, Sarah Whitmee, Robert C. Hughes, Rosemary Green, Hugh Sharma Waddington, Andy Haines

{"title":"Systematic overview of climate actions for health in cities","authors":"Emma Hutchinson, Tobias Magnus Schuster, Melanie Crane, James Milner, Kristine Belesova, Roberto Picetti, Simon Lloyd, Catalina Turcu, Jane Falconer, Blanca Anton, Rebecca Newbould, Lorna Benton, Tamzin Reynolds, Peninah Murage, Vidushi Bahl, Ai Milojevic, Samaryah Sammut, Mike Davies, Paul Wilkinson, Sarah Whitmee, Robert C. Hughes, Rosemary Green, Hugh Sharma Waddington, Andy Haines","doi":"10.1038/s44284-026-00515-y","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s44284-026-00515-y","url":null,"abstract":"Many climate change adaptation and mitigation actions in cities have potential co-impacts for health. This overview of relevant systematic reviews appraises and summarizes available evidence of the effects of implemented city-level actions addressing climate change and health impacts. On the basis of an assessment of confidence in the findings of the 60 reviews identified, the findings from 49 were included in the analysis. Most evidence focused on climate mitigation actions in the transport and buildings sectors and on urban form. Health co-benefits mainly resulted from increased active transport or improved housing. Where reviews provided measures of effect, they suggested only modest impacts on climate and health outcomes from single-sector actions. We found no published evidence of city-wide implementation of cross-sectoral transformative actions needed to achieve climate change targets and large-scale health co-benefits. More ambitious policies, together with rigorous evaluation of their impacts, are needed to attain and demonstrate these outcomes. Urban climate actions can enhance health, particularly through improved air quality and increased physical activity. However, evidence indicates modest impacts from single-sector interventions. This overview of systematic reviews highlights the need for cross-sectoral policies and robust evaluations to achieve transformative outcomes.","PeriodicalId":501700,"journal":{"name":"Nature Cities","volume":"3 10","pages":"941-956"},"PeriodicalIF":15.3,"publicationDate":"2026-09-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.comhttps://www.nature.com/articles/s44284-026-00515-y.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149177758","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Economic-boom-driven electricity demand linked to urban air pollution and health in India 在印度，经济繁荣驱动的电力需求与城市空气污染和健康有关

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Nature Cities Pub Date : 2026-09-25 DOI: 10.1038/s44284-026-00518-9

Basudev Swain, Aishwarya Singh, Debashis Tripathy, Rui Song, Adrien Deroubaix, Marco Vountas, Pritanjali Shende, Chenchen Huang, Luca Lelli, Ankit Tandon

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Urban trees associated with a reduction in negative sentiment with stronger links during COVID-19 城市树木与减少负面情绪有关，在COVID-19期间联系更紧密

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Nature Cities Pub Date : 2026-09-22 DOI: 10.1038/s44284-026-00519-8

Jianhua Guo, Huadong Guo, Jianghao Wang, Danfeng Hong, Anna Kruspe, Xiao Xiang Zhu

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Sustaining green stormwater infrastructure adoption in cities 在城市中持续采用绿色雨水基础设施

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Nature Cities Pub Date : 2026-09-21 DOI: 10.1038/s44284-026-00520-1

Koorosh Azizi, Margaret Garcia, Dev Niyogi, R. Patrick Bixler

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Guests in the city 城市里的客人

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Nature Cities Pub Date : 2026-09-16 DOI: 10.1038/s44284-026-00484-2

Ziheng Zeng

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