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Urban flood risk management needs nature-based solutions: a coupled social-ecological system perspective 城市洪水风险管理需要基于自然的解决方案：社会-生态系统耦合视角

npj urban sustainability Pub Date : 2024-04-22 DOI: 10.1038/s42949-024-00162-z

Kejing Zhou, Fanhua Kong, Haiwei Yin, Georgia Destouni, Michael E. Meadows, Erik Andersson, Liding Chen, Bin Chen, Zhenya Li, Jie Su

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Author Correction: A disconnect in science and practitioner perspectives on heat mitigation 作者更正：科学界和实践者对防暑降温的看法脱节

npj urban sustainability Pub Date : 2024-04-10 DOI: 10.1038/s42949-024-00160-1

Florian A. Schneider, Erin Epel, Ariane Middel

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Current inequality and future potential of US urban tree cover for reducing heat-related health impacts 美国城市树木覆盖在减少与热有关的健康影响方面的当前不平等状况和未来潜力

npj urban sustainability Pub Date : 2024-04-08 DOI: 10.1038/s42949-024-00150-3

Robert I. McDonald, Tanushree Biswas, T. C. Chakraborty, Timm Kroeger, Susan C. Cook-Patton, Joseph E. Fargione

{"title":"Current inequality and future potential of US urban tree cover for reducing heat-related health impacts","authors":"Robert I. McDonald, Tanushree Biswas, T. C. Chakraborty, Timm Kroeger, Susan C. Cook-Patton, Joseph E. Fargione","doi":"10.1038/s42949-024-00150-3","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s42949-024-00150-3","url":null,"abstract":"Excessive heat is a major and growing risk for urban residents. Here, we estimate the inequality in summertime heat-related mortality, morbidity, and electricity consumption across 5723 US municipalities and other places, housing 180 million people during the 2020 census. On average, trees in majority non-Hispanic white neighborhoods cool the air by 0.19 ± 0.05 °C more than in POC neighborhoods, leading annually to trees in white neighborhoods helping prevent 190 ± 139 more deaths, 30,131 ± 10,406 more doctors’ visits, and 1.4 ± 0.5 terawatt-hours (TWhr) more electricity consumption than in POC neighborhoods. We estimate that an ambitious reforestation program would require 1.2 billion trees and reduce population-weighted average summer temperatures by an additional 0.38 ± 0.01 °C. This temperature reduction would reduce annual heat-related mortality by an additional 464 ± 89 people, annual heat-related morbidity by 80,785 ± 6110 cases, and annual electricity consumption by 4.3 ± 0.2 TWhr, while increasing annual carbon sequestration in trees by 23.7 ± 1.2 MtCO2e yr−1 and decreasing annual electricity-related GHG emissions by 2.1 ± 0.2 MtCO2e yr−1. The total economic value of these benefits, including the value of carbon sequestration and avoided emissions, would be USD 9.6 ± 0.5 billion, although in many neighborhoods the cost of planting and maintaining trees to achieve this increased tree cover would exceed these benefits. The exception is areas that currently have less tree cover, often the majority POC, which tend to have a relatively high return on investment from tree planting.","PeriodicalId":74322,"journal":{"name":"npj urban sustainability","volume":" ","pages":"1-16"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.com/articles/s42949-024-00150-3.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140538018","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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Building energy savings by green roofs and cool roofs in current and future climates 在当前和未来气候条件下通过屋顶绿化和屋顶降温实现建筑节能

npj urban sustainability Pub Date : 2024-04-03 DOI: 10.1038/s42949-024-00159-8

Siqi Jia, Qihao Weng, Cheolhee Yoo, Huijuan Xiao, Qingwei Zhong

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Urban Nature Indexes tool offers comprehensive and flexible approach to monitoring urban ecological performance 城市自然指数工具为监测城市生态绩效提供了全面而灵活的方法

npj urban sustainability Pub Date : 2024-04-03 DOI: 10.1038/s42949-024-00143-2

Jennifer Rae Pierce, Laura Costadone, Lelani Mannetti, Joeri Morpurgo, Charlyn Elaine Green, Michael D. Halder, Pablo Arturo Lopez Guijosa, Abner L. Bogan, Russell Galt, Jonathan Hughes

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Exploring urban housing disadvantages and economic struggles in Seoul, South Korea 探索韩国首尔的城市住房劣势和经济困境

npj urban sustainability Pub Date : 2024-04-02 DOI: 10.1038/s42949-024-00158-9

Yookyung Lee, Seungwoo Han

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AI perceives like a local: predicting citizen deprivation perception using satellite imagery 人工智能像当地人一样感知：利用卫星图像预测公民的匮乏感

npj urban sustainability Pub Date : 2024-03-29 DOI: 10.1038/s42949-024-00156-x

Angela Abascal, Sabine Vanhuysse, Taïs Grippa, Ignacio Rodriguez-Carreño, Stefanos Georganos, Jiong Wang, Monika Kuffer, Pablo Martinez-Diez, Mar Santamaria-Varas, Eleonore Wolff

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Behavior-encoded models reveal differentiated access to public cooling environment by race and income 行为编码模型揭示了不同种族和收入的人使用公共冷却环境的差异

npj urban sustainability Pub Date : 2024-03-22 DOI: 10.1038/s42949-024-00157-w

Chao Li, Xing Su, Chao Fan, Haoying Han

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A disconnect in science and practitioner perspectives on heat mitigation 科学界和实践者对减少热量的看法脱节

npj urban sustainability Pub Date : 2024-03-21 DOI: 10.1038/s42949-024-00155-y

Florian A. Schneider, Erin Epel, Ariane Middel

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Positive unintended consequences of urbanization for climate-resilience of stream ecosystems 城市化对溪流生态系统气候适应能力的积极意外后果

npj urban sustainability Pub Date : 2024-03-20 DOI: 10.1038/s42949-024-00144-1

Jay L. Banner, Bryan A. Black, Darrel M. Tremaine

{"title":"Positive unintended consequences of urbanization for climate-resilience of stream ecosystems","authors":"Jay L. Banner, Bryan A. Black, Darrel M. Tremaine","doi":"10.1038/s42949-024-00144-1","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s42949-024-00144-1","url":null,"abstract":"Developing sustainable urban systems is a fundamental societal challenge for the 21st century, and central Texas faces particularly synergistic challenges of a rapidly growing urban population and a projected increasingly drought-prone climate. To assess the history of urbanization impacts on watersheds here, we analyzed 51 cores from bald cypress trees in paired urban and rural watersheds in Austin, Texas. We find a significant contrast between rural and urbanized watersheds. In the rural watershed, tree-ring-width growth histories (“chronologies”) from 1844–2018 significantly and positively correlate (p < 0.01) with (1) one another, and (2) regional instrumental and proxy records of drought. In the urbanized watershed, by contrast, chronologies weakly correlate with one another, with instrumental records of drought, and with the rural chronologies and regional records. Relatively weak drought limitations to urban tree growth are consistent with the significant present-day transfer of municipal water from urban infrastructure by leakage and irrigation to the natural hydrologic system. We infer a significant, long-term contribution from infrastructure to baseflow in urbanized watersheds. In contrast to the common negative impacts of ‘urban stream syndrome’, such sustained baseflow in watersheds with impaired or failing infrastructure may be an unintended positive consequence for stream ecosystems, as a mitigation against projected extended 21st-century droughts. Additionally, riparian trees may serve as a proxy for past impacts of urbanization on natural streams, which may inform sustainable urban development.","PeriodicalId":74322,"journal":{"name":"npj urban sustainability","volume":" ","pages":"1-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.com/articles/s42949-024-00144-1.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140181745","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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