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Impact of soil moisture content on urban tree evaporative cooling and human thermal comfort. 土壤含水量对城市树木蒸发降温及人体热舒适的影响

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npj urban sustainability Pub Date : 2025-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-05-16 DOI: 10.1038/s42949-025-00220-0

L Gobatti, P M Bach, M Maurer, J P Leitão

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Realizing multispecies justice through a capability approach to promote nature-based solutions. 通过能力方法促进基于自然的解决方案实现多物种正义。

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npj urban sustainability Pub Date : 2025-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-05-28 DOI: 10.1038/s42949-025-00205-z

Melissa Pineda-Pinto, Mick Lennon, Christopher Kennedy, Mairéad O'Donnell, Erik Andersson, Katinka Wijsman, Marcus J Collier

{"title":"Realizing multispecies justice through a capability approach to promote nature-based solutions.","authors":"Melissa Pineda-Pinto, Mick Lennon, Christopher Kennedy, Mairéad O'Donnell, Erik Andersson, Katinka Wijsman, Marcus J Collier","doi":"10.1038/s42949-025-00205-z","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s42949-025-00205-z","url":null,"abstract":"The design and implementation of nature-based solutions (NBS) in cities are often limited by an anthropocentric approach that prioritizes utilitarian goals instead of the diverse needs and abilities of multiple species that would support ecological flourishing. This paper starts from the premise that multispecies justice (MSJ) thinking provides a needed biocentric approach to NBS, and explores how a Capability Approach (CA) can be a bridge to integrate MSJ into urban NBS. The premise was tested through an embodied methodology used to design and deliver multi-city workshops in urban novel ecologies; settings often described as abandoned and hosting novel ecosystems. This research improved the understanding of participant's awareness and knowledge of more-than-human agencies in shaping space and time, and in identifying social and environmental vulnerabilities and opportunities that can foster or hinder multispecies flourishing. We conclude by exploring how the CA can bridge NBS and MSJ and argue for the potential of marginal, less-valued novel ecologies as important elements of socially and biodiversity-rich urban futures.","PeriodicalId":74322,"journal":{"name":"npj urban sustainability","volume":"5 1","pages":"31"},"PeriodicalIF":9.1,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12119368/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144201024","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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The untranslatability of environmental affective scales: insights from indigenous soundscape perceptions in China. 环境情感尺度的不可译性：来自中国本土音景感知的见解。

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npj urban sustainability Pub Date : 2025-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-06-14 DOI: 10.1038/s42949-025-00228-6

Duotuo Wu, Rumei Han, Ruining Zhang, Xinhao Yang, Yuan Zhang, Jian Kang

{"title":"The untranslatability of environmental affective scales: insights from indigenous soundscape perceptions in China.","authors":"Duotuo Wu, Rumei Han, Ruining Zhang, Xinhao Yang, Yuan Zhang, Jian Kang","doi":"10.1038/s42949-025-00228-6","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s42949-025-00228-6","url":null,"abstract":"Soundscapes significantly impact human well-being, yet standard Western-based Soundscape Affective Quality (SAQ) scales may not accurately represent culturally specific perceptions. This study explored structural differences in soundscape emotional experiences between Chinese and Western cultures using an indigenous approach. An Indigenous Chinese SAQ (ICSAQ) scale was developed through perceptual evaluations of 132 representative Chinese soundscape excerpts by 264 participants from 30 provinces, employing 108 culturally relevant descriptors. Principal component analysis revealed two dimensions-Comfort and Richness-differing notably from the global Pleasantness-Eventfulness model. Comparison with the translated global SAQ scale showed significant measurement bias, with the imported scale overestimating positive emotions and activation levels. Regression analyses confirmed the ICSAQ scale's stronger interpretability regarding objective acoustic indicators. The findings highlight critical limitations of translation-based environmental affective measurements, emphasizing the necessity of culturally appropriate assessment tools for inclusive urban environmental management.","PeriodicalId":74322,"journal":{"name":"npj urban sustainability","volume":"5 1","pages":"38"},"PeriodicalIF":9.1,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12167170/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144310879","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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Sensitivity of mesoscale modeling to urban morphological feature inputs and implications for characterizing urban sustainability 中尺度模式对城市形态特征输入的敏感性及其对城市可持续性特征的影响

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npj urban sustainability Pub Date : 2024-12-04 DOI: 10.1038/s42949-024-00185-6

Melissa R. Allen-Dumas, Levi T. Sweet-Breu, Christa M. Brelsford, Linying Wang, Joshua R. New, Brett C. Bass

{"title":"Sensitivity of mesoscale modeling to urban morphological feature inputs and implications for characterizing urban sustainability","authors":"Melissa R. Allen-Dumas, Levi T. Sweet-Breu, Christa M. Brelsford, Linying Wang, Joshua R. New, Brett C. Bass","doi":"10.1038/s42949-024-00185-6","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s42949-024-00185-6","url":null,"abstract":"We examine the differences in meteorological output from the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model run at 270 m horizontal resolution using 10 m, 100 m and 1 km resolution 3D neighborhood morphological inputs and with no morphological inputs. We find that the spatial variability in temperature, humidity, and other meteorological variables across the city can vary with the resolution and the coverage of the 3D urban morphological input, and that larger differences occur between simulations run without 3D morphological input and those run with some type of 3D morphology. We also find that the inclusion of input-building-defined roughness length calculations would improve simulation results further. We show that these inputs produce different patterns of heat wave spatial heterogeneity across the city of Washington, DC. These findings suggest that understanding neighborhood level urban sustainability under extreme heat waves, especially for vulnerable neighborhoods, requires attention to the representation of surface terrain in numerical weather models.","PeriodicalId":74322,"journal":{"name":"npj urban sustainability","volume":" ","pages":"1-11"},"PeriodicalIF":9.1,"publicationDate":"2024-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.com/articles/s42949-024-00185-6.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142762962","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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Promoting sustainable cities through creating social empathy between new urban populations and planners 通过在新城市人口和规划者之间建立社会共鸣，促进城市可持续发展

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npj urban sustainability Pub Date : 2024-11-30 DOI: 10.1038/s42949-024-00189-2

Lucy Szaboova, W. Neil Adger, Ricardo Safra de Campos, Tasneem Siddiqui, Mohammad Rashed Alam Bhuiyan, Tamim Billah, Mahmudol Hasan Rocky

{"title":"Promoting sustainable cities through creating social empathy between new urban populations and planners","authors":"Lucy Szaboova, W. Neil Adger, Ricardo Safra de Campos, Tasneem Siddiqui, Mohammad Rashed Alam Bhuiyan, Tamim Billah, Mahmudol Hasan Rocky","doi":"10.1038/s42949-024-00189-2","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s42949-024-00189-2","url":null,"abstract":"New migrant populations in rapidly growing cities globally are often socially and politically marginalized, limiting their potential to contribute to the positive transformation of urban futures. Such marginalisation can potentially be overcome through deliberate efforts to build empathy between groups. Here we apply insights on empathic action to planning processes with the aim of diversifying planning processes to provide plural perspectives on risk and sustainability and giving marginalised groups opportunities to shape key decisions. We report on action research to examine whether empathic connection between urban planners and new migrant populations leads to processes that enhance and integrate new voices and perspectives. The intervention involved photo-elicitation interviews, focus groups and perspective exchange workshops over eighteen months of intensive engagement in Chattogram, Bangladesh. The findings demonstrate that empathy for diverse social groups has practical implications for sustainability where individuals have agency and feel empowered to enhance each other’s wellbeing.","PeriodicalId":74322,"journal":{"name":"npj urban sustainability","volume":" ","pages":"1-9"},"PeriodicalIF":9.1,"publicationDate":"2024-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.com/articles/s42949-024-00189-2.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142758085","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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Urban-rural digitalization evolves from divide to inclusion: empirical evidence from China 城乡数字化从鸿沟走向包容：来自中国的经验证据

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npj urban sustainability Pub Date : 2024-11-28 DOI: 10.1038/s42949-024-00187-4

Chuanglin Fang, Zehui Chen, Xia Liao, Biao Sun, Lingyu Meng

{"title":"Urban-rural digitalization evolves from divide to inclusion: empirical evidence from China","authors":"Chuanglin Fang, Zehui Chen, Xia Liao, Biao Sun, Lingyu Meng","doi":"10.1038/s42949-024-00187-4","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s42949-024-00187-4","url":null,"abstract":"Global digitalization leads to a new digital inequality, jointly faced by urban and rural areas. Diagnosing these digital challenges and seeking common coping strategies are crucial in the digital era. Yet, the state of Urban-Rural Digitalization (URD) remains ambiguous, and effective solutions are still lacking. Here we propose an integrative approach and introduce a novel Development-Gap-Integration framework to assess URD. Utilizing authoritative data from official government sources and institutes, we conduct a comprehensive analysis of 30 provinces in China from 2000 to 2020. Our findings depict a transformative journey of URD, evolving from divide to inclusion. The increasing integration accompanies by advancing development and diminishing gaps. However, we identify three significant challenges: 1) high development coinciding with high gaps, 2) inadequate integration of digital applications, and 3) widening disparity between provinces. Thus, we suggest tailored policy recommendations focused on urban-rural integration, enhancing digital literacy, and promoting regional coordinated development.","PeriodicalId":74322,"journal":{"name":"npj urban sustainability","volume":" ","pages":"1-16"},"PeriodicalIF":9.1,"publicationDate":"2024-11-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.com/articles/s42949-024-00187-4.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142737650","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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How will ai transform urban observing, sensing, imaging, and mapping? 人工智能将如何改变城市观测、传感、成像和制图？

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npj urban sustainability Pub Date : 2024-11-28 DOI: 10.1038/s42949-024-00188-3

Qihao Weng, Zhiwei Li, Yinxia Cao, Xiaoyan Lu, Paolo Gamba, Xiaoxiang Zhu, Yonghao Xu, Fan Zhang, Rongjun Qin, Micheal. Y. Yang, Peifeng Ma, Wei Huang, Tiangang Yin, Qiming Zheng, Yuhan Zhou, Greg Asner

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Post construction infrastructural adaptation of social practices in Dhaka’s under flyover spaces 达卡立交桥下空间的基础设施建设后社会实践调整

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npj urban sustainability Pub Date : 2024-11-11 DOI: 10.1038/s42949-024-00181-w

Srijon Barua, Hirohide Kobayashi

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More extremely hot days, more heat exposure and fewer cooling options for people of color in Connecticut, U.S. 美国康涅狄格州极热天气增多，高温暴露增加，有色人种的降温选择减少。

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npj urban sustainability Pub Date : 2024-11-03 DOI: 10.1038/s42949-024-00186-5

Shijuan Chen, Katie Lund, Colleen Murphy-Dunning, Karen C. Seto

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Stakeholders’ perceptions of and willingness to pay for circular economy in the construction sector 利益相关者对建筑行业循环经济的看法和支付意愿

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npj urban sustainability Pub Date : 2024-10-24 DOI: 10.1038/s42949-024-00182-9

Juliana Berglund-Brown, Akrisht Pandey, Fabio Duarte, Raquel Ganitsky, Randy Kirchain, Siqi Zheng

{"title":"Stakeholders’ perceptions of and willingness to pay for circular economy in the construction sector","authors":"Juliana Berglund-Brown, Akrisht Pandey, Fabio Duarte, Raquel Ganitsky, Randy Kirchain, Siqi Zheng","doi":"10.1038/s42949-024-00182-9","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s42949-024-00182-9","url":null,"abstract":"Adopting Circular Economy practices in the construction industry can help reduce greenhouse gas emissions. However, many barriers exist to adoption, and current perceptions of and willingness to pay for circularity have yet to be quantified. This study seeks to understand the various perceptions of circularity in the construction industry, characterize uncertainties and risks, and identify economic incentives and opportunities that could accelerate circular adoption via an industry survey of three stakeholder groups. 58 stakeholders filled out part of the survey, and 42 stakeholders completed the majority of questions. Real estate developers are willing to pay an average premium of 10% for construction costs if there’s a minimum embodied carbon reduction of 53%. Design and construction professionals and material suppliers were also surveyed. Reasons for adopting circular practices were primarily driven by client, design team, and net zero goals. The results of this survey begin to characterize the economic landscape of what is needed for a circular transition in the built environment.","PeriodicalId":74322,"journal":{"name":"npj urban sustainability","volume":" ","pages":"1-10"},"PeriodicalIF":9.1,"publicationDate":"2024-10-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.com/articles/s42949-024-00182-9.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142519172","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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