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Taxonomy Archive: Urban greening
20 Apr 2018 |
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Expanding Urban Tree Canopy as a Community Health Climate Adaptation Strategy – A Health Impact Assessment of the Ann Arbor Urban & Community Forest Management Plan
This Health Impact Assessment (HIA) examines the potential health and psychosocial benefits associated with targeting tree planing in residental areas of Ann Arbor, Michigan wiht lower tree canopy and populations vulnerable both directly to extreme heat events and to health conditions affected by heat and tree canopy.
20 Apr 2018 |
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Mitigating New York City’s heat island with urban forestry, living roofs, and light surfaces
This study uses a regional climate model (MM5) in combination with observed meteorological, satellite, and GIS data to determine the impact of each of the mitigation strategies, urban forestry, living/green roofs, and light surfaces, on surface and near-surface air temperature in the New York Metropolitan Region over space and time. ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Urban Heat Island Mitigation Can Improve New York City’s Environment: Research on the Impacts of Mitigation Strategies on the Urban Environment
This report discusses green “living” roofs and “cool” highly reflective roofs—building technologies that may offer solutions to ameliorate urban heat island effects and its consequences. This report has a relatively narrow goal: to focus on why these particular technologies may be incorporated into ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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The Urban Heat Island Effect in Windsor, ON: An Assessment of Vulnerability and Mitigation Strategies
This report discusses the urban heat island effect, its causes and impacts, vulnerable populations, adaptation and mitigation measures, as well as maps the urban heat island effect and vulnerability in windsor, ON.
20 Apr 2018 |
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Banking on Green: A Look at How Green Infrastructre Can Save Municipalities Money and Provide Economic Benefits Community-wide
The impacts of stormwater pollution and the need to provide stormwater prevention, management, and treatment all create costs for communities and their residents. These costs can often be offset or reduced by making different choices about how we build communities and infrastructure. By incorporating “green infrastructure” ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Improving Thermal Comfort in Windsor, ON; Assessing Urban Parks and Playgrounds
City parks offer Windsor residents an area where they can enjoy the outdoors and maintain their physical activity. Urban parks are known to have lower temperatures compared to their surrounding environment, mainly due to the presence of vegetation. Despite this, parks are still affected by high temperatures caused by the urban heat ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Adapting to urban heat: a tool kit for local governments
This Urban Heat Tool Kit is designed to help local governments reduce the effects of increased heat on their communities and citizens. It provides an analytic tool for policy makers to consider a combination of four built-environment changes (cool roofs, green roofs, cool pavements, and urban forestry), providing clear criteria for ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Hotter Summers Mean More Health Risks In Urban Heat Islands
Climate change models are predicting hotter summers in the Northwest, and experts say the health risks from that heat are higher in places known as urban heat islands.
20 Apr 2018 |
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Louisville Urban Tree Canopy Assessment
This urban tree canopy assessment was undertaken to examine tree canopy in detail – this study provides statistical data, mapping analysis, and a prioritized planting plan that will help focus tree management and tree planign resources where they are needed most.Recommendations for growing and protecting the tree canopy in ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Health co-benefits and risks of public health adaptation strategies to climate change: a review of current literature
OBJECTIVES: Many public health adaptation strategies have been identified in response to climate change. This report reviews current literature on health co-benefits and risks of these strategies to gain a better understanding of how they may affect health. METHODS: A literature review was conducted electronically using English ...