npj urban sustainability最新文献

Greening mitigates heat-related mortality in Paris. 绿化减轻了巴黎与热有关的死亡率。

IF 10.9

npj urban sustainability Pub Date : 2026-01-27 DOI: 10.1038/s42949-025-00334-5

Hicham Achebak, Pierre Masselot, Joan Ballester, Antonio Gasparrini, Grégoire Rey

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Why water security matters to cities under extreme heat in the Global North. 为什么水安全对全球北方极端高温下的城市至关重要。

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npj urban sustainability Pub Date : 2026-01-01 Epub Date: 2026-01-20 DOI: 10.1038/s42949-025-00317-6

Hug March, Katie Meehan, Elena Domene, Mar Satorras, David Saurí

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Sustained resilience as a unifying property of cities and the built environment. 可持续韧性是城市和建筑环境的统一属性。

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npj urban sustainability Pub Date : 2026-01-01 Epub Date: 2026-08-25 DOI: 10.1038/s42949-026-00457-3

Stergios-Aristoteles Mitoulis, Nadiia Kopiika, Roberta Di Bari, Sotirios Argyroudis

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Whose city is it? Mapping perceived urban livability with citizen-guided AI. 这是谁的城市？利用公民引导的人工智能绘制感知的城市宜居性。

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npj urban sustainability Pub Date : 2026-01-01 Epub Date: 2026-01-08 DOI: 10.1038/s42949-025-00320-x

Florencio Campomanes V, Angela Abascal, Lorraine Trento Oliveira, Monika Kuffer, Anne M Dijkstra, Alfred Stein, Mariana Belgiu

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Deciphering exterior: building energy efficiency prediction with emerging urban big data. 解读外部：新兴城市大数据下的建筑能效预测。

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npj urban sustainability Pub Date : 2026-01-01 Epub Date: 2026-02-04 DOI: 10.1038/s42949-026-00348-7

Maoran Sun, Ce Hou, Qiaosi Li, Fan Zhang, Ronita Bardhan, Qunshan Zhao

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Blind spots and actionable insights for urban governance of the climate-biodiversity-health nexus. 气候-生物多样性-健康关系的城市治理盲点和可行见解。

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npj urban sustainability Pub Date : 2026-01-01 Epub Date: 2026-02-09 DOI: 10.1038/s42949-026-00345-w

Milutin Stojanovic, Thea Wübbelmann, Sirkku Juhola, Nadja Kabisch, Timon McPhearson, Veera Lipponen, Christopher Raymond

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Building dense or compact cities without jeopardizing biodiversity: Insights from bird observations in Gothenburg, Sweden. 在不损害生物多样性的情况下建设密集或紧凑的城市：来自瑞典哥德堡鸟类观察的见解。

IF 10.9

npj urban sustainability Pub Date : 2026-01-01 Epub Date: 2026-09-05 DOI: 10.1038/s42949-026-00471-5

Ahmed Hazem Eldesoky, Oskar Kindvall, Meta Berghauser Pont, Ioanna Stavroulaki, Jorge Gil, Nadia Charalambous

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Exposed yet unmapped: evidence of differential flood exposure in deprived urban areas using citizen science. 暴露但未绘制：利用公民科学研究贫困城市地区不同洪水暴露程度的证据。

IF 10.9

npj urban sustainability Pub Date : 2026-01-01 Epub Date: 2026-06-22 DOI: 10.1038/s42949-026-00428-8

Lorraine Trento Oliveira, Florencio V Campomanes, Anne M Dijkstra, Mariana Belgiu, Prosper Adiku, Nicera Wanjiru, Lizian Onyango, Renaldo Flor, Deyril Ibraimo, Bastian van den Bout, Jaap A Zevenbergen, Monika Kuffer

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Pathways to health: Reporting on health co-benefits from urban climate mitigation action varies by sector. 健康之路：关于城市气候减缓行动对健康的共同惠益的报告因部门而异。

IF 8.8

npj urban sustainability Pub Date : 2026-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-11-29 DOI: 10.1038/s42949-025-00311-y

Blanca Anton, Andy Haines, Rosemary Green, Nienke Meinsma, Tamzin Reynolds, Sarah Whitmee

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Conventional approaches to indicators and metrics undermine urban climate adaptation. 传统的指标和度量方法破坏了城市气候适应。

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npj urban sustainability Pub Date : 2026-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-12-14 DOI: 10.1038/s42949-025-00310-z

Marta Olazabal, Andressa V Mansur, Samraj Sahay, Laura Helmke-Long, Massimiliano Granceri Bradaschia, Ane Villaverde, Leire Garmendia, Prince Dacosta Aboagye, Ayyoob Sharifi, Obed Asamoah, Patricia Mwangi, William Lewis, Borja Izaola, Ellie Murtagh, Ira Feldman

{"title":"Conventional approaches to indicators and metrics undermine urban climate adaptation.","authors":"Marta Olazabal, Andressa V Mansur, Samraj Sahay, Laura Helmke-Long, Massimiliano Granceri Bradaschia, Ane Villaverde, Leire Garmendia, Prince Dacosta Aboagye, Ayyoob Sharifi, Obed Asamoah, Patricia Mwangi, William Lewis, Borja Izaola, Ellie Murtagh, Ira Feldman","doi":"10.1038/s42949-025-00310-z","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s42949-025-00310-z","url":null,"abstract":"Measurement is essential for effective adaptation management and operation, and indicators and metrics (I&M) have a pivotal role. Surprisingly, systematic efforts to assess advances in the provision of adaptation I&M are scarce, and those that do exist often lack in-depth analysis of the types, characteristics, and applicability of the collected information. Here, we analyse 137 publications and 901 I&M sourced in the scientific literature (2007-2022) to measure adaptation to climate change in urban areas where governments are increasingly placing efforts to prepare populations and infrastructures. A lack of common terminology, standardisation, and guidelines has resulted in a field that is complex to track and understand. This complexity has led to a fragmented methodological landscape, marked by diverse, context-dependent, and occasionally conflicting approaches to the development of I&M. We argue that conventional approaches to I&M are largely inadequate and must better emphasise quantifiability, long-term assessment, and alignment with policy objectives.","PeriodicalId":74322,"journal":{"name":"npj urban sustainability","volume":"6 1","pages":"8"},"PeriodicalIF":8.8,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12795751/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145971393","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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