Urban Forests and Landscape Ecology
Esperon-Rodriguez, Manuel
Urban Forests and Landscape Ecology - Basel MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2022 - 1 electronic resource (170 p.)
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Urbanization is a dominant driver of landscape transformation across the world, with cities representing centers of economic and socio-cultural development. Today, more than 4.2 billion people live in urban areas, which represent ~3% of the Earth's land area. By 2050, it is predicted this number will increase to 6.6 billion people (~70% of the predicted global population). As the human population grows, cities around the globe will continue to expand, increasing the demand for food and services. Within cities, urban forests provide multiple nature-based solutions, as well as other environmental services and socio-economic benefits, such as heat mitigation and social integration. Urban forests are also important for coping with psychological stress during events, such as the COVID-19 pandemic. Therefore, urban forests are a priority for basic and applied forest research because they are intimately connected with people's physical, cultural, and economic well-being in the urban environment, and can also be important reservoirs of biodiversity. To promote a better understanding of urban forests and landscape ecology, this book in "Urban Forests and Landscape Ecology" compiled research set in urban forests and focused on some spatially explicit processes. Studies presented in this book are highly interdisciplinary and use a wide range of research approaches. This book present nine scientific publications from global urban forests demonstrating that these forests, as a nature-based solution, provide multiple environmental services and are crucial to improve urban livability and thereby the wellbeing of city dwellers.
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books978-3-0365-4578-3 9783036545776 9783036545783
10.3390/books978-3-0365-4578-3 doi
Research & information: general
Biology, life sciences
aesthetics causal effects crown form foliage form urban forests urban forest NATURA 2000 area soundscape birds biological diversity ecosystem disservices Mediterranean region green infrastructure urban forest types indicators microclimate human thermal comfort outdoor thermal environment public health ecological services urban green space remote sensing deep learning convolutional neural network residual structure attention mechanism n/a urban biodiversity urban habitat quality InVEST model land surface temperature Moran's I Zhengzhou social media data spatiotemporal utilization Shanghai ecological function landscape structure GIS air pollution alleviation accumulation on leaves PM2.5 encapsulated particles urban trees
Urban Forests and Landscape Ecology - Basel MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2022 - 1 electronic resource (170 p.)
Open Access
Urbanization is a dominant driver of landscape transformation across the world, with cities representing centers of economic and socio-cultural development. Today, more than 4.2 billion people live in urban areas, which represent ~3% of the Earth's land area. By 2050, it is predicted this number will increase to 6.6 billion people (~70% of the predicted global population). As the human population grows, cities around the globe will continue to expand, increasing the demand for food and services. Within cities, urban forests provide multiple nature-based solutions, as well as other environmental services and socio-economic benefits, such as heat mitigation and social integration. Urban forests are also important for coping with psychological stress during events, such as the COVID-19 pandemic. Therefore, urban forests are a priority for basic and applied forest research because they are intimately connected with people's physical, cultural, and economic well-being in the urban environment, and can also be important reservoirs of biodiversity. To promote a better understanding of urban forests and landscape ecology, this book in "Urban Forests and Landscape Ecology" compiled research set in urban forests and focused on some spatially explicit processes. Studies presented in this book are highly interdisciplinary and use a wide range of research approaches. This book present nine scientific publications from global urban forests demonstrating that these forests, as a nature-based solution, provide multiple environmental services and are crucial to improve urban livability and thereby the wellbeing of city dwellers.
Creative Commons
English
books978-3-0365-4578-3 9783036545776 9783036545783
10.3390/books978-3-0365-4578-3 doi
Research & information: general
Biology, life sciences
aesthetics causal effects crown form foliage form urban forests urban forest NATURA 2000 area soundscape birds biological diversity ecosystem disservices Mediterranean region green infrastructure urban forest types indicators microclimate human thermal comfort outdoor thermal environment public health ecological services urban green space remote sensing deep learning convolutional neural network residual structure attention mechanism n/a urban biodiversity urban habitat quality InVEST model land surface temperature Moran's I Zhengzhou social media data spatiotemporal utilization Shanghai ecological function landscape structure GIS air pollution alleviation accumulation on leaves PM2.5 encapsulated particles urban trees