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Taxonomy Archive: Urban greening
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Cool Houston! A Plan for Cooling the Region: For Clean Air & Quality of Life Benefits
This report sets forth a plan to reduce urban heat island effect, targeting surfaces that often change. Strategies include coop paving, cool roofing, and planting more trees.
20 Apr 2018 |
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Minnesota Healthy Planning: How-To Guide
The Minnesota Healthy Planning How-To Guide includes eight desired health goals to create a sustainable, healthy community and 20 built environment strategies for achieving those desired health goals. This How-To Guide is a set of recommendations, not requirements. Not all strategies are applicable to every setting. The suggested ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Policy Approaches to Reducing Health Inequalities
Health inequalities are understood to be unfair and systematic differences in health among and between social groups – differences which need to be addressed through action. These result from social and political circumstances and are therefore potentially avoidable. To address these inequalities, the relationships between the ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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City Resilience Toolkit: Response to Deadly Heat Waves and Preparing for Rising Temperatures
Climate change poses signifi cant challenges to cities. As urban populations continue to grow, the need for cities and their residents to adapt to climate change and its impacts becomes increasingly urgent. Extreme heat is one of the health threats already challenging cities in India and around the world.
20 Apr 2018 |
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The Multifunctionality of Green Infrastructure
Green Infrastructure (GI) stands to improve quality of life in many ways, through its environmental, social and economic credentials, based on the multifunctional use of natural capital. Potentially a very valuable policy tool, GI’s multifunctionality could contribute to the achievement of a number of policy aims and fulfil the ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Cool Roofs and Cool Pavements Toolkit
The Practical Guide to Cool Roofs and Cool Pavements was developed as an informative primer and implementation guide for cool roofs enthusiasts, from the curious to professionals.
20 Apr 2018 |
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Reducing Urban Heat Islands: Compendium of Strategies | Heat Island Effect | US EPA
Links to PDF versions of the Reducing Urban Heat Islands: Compendium of Strategies publication
20 Apr 2018 |
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Complete Parks Playbook
Parks bring numerous health, social, economic, and environmental benefits to a community, and every person in every neighborhood should be able to enjoy these benefits. Unfortunately, too many cities and counties are “park poor,” lacking adequate parks and green spaces. Low-income communities often have the fewest (and ...
20 Apr 2018 |
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Building for mental health and resilience: Architects use design to mitigate environmental stressors
By making our spaces more resilient and communicating that value to tenants, designers can contribute to the improved mental well-being of occupants. Protecting against loss of life and property is important, but it should not be the only factor in meeting site-specific vulnerabilities. As we increase awareness of design’s impact, ...