[HTML][HTML] Nature's contributions in coping with a pandemic in the 21st century: A narrative review of evidence during COVID-19

SM Labib, MHEM Browning, A Rigolon… - Science of The Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
While COVID-19 lockdowns have slowed coronavirus transmission, such structural
measures also have unintended consequences on mental and physical health. Growing …

Toward Zero-Carbon Urban Transitions with Health, Climate Resilience, and Equity Co-Benefits: Assessing Nexus Linkages

A Ramaswami, B Pandey, Q Li, K Das… - Annual Review of …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Getting to net-zero-carbon cities while advancing well-being (W), health (H), social equity
(E), and climate resilience (R)(referred to as the WHER outcomes) is critical for local and …

Lower urban humidity moderates outdoor heat stress

T Chakraborty, ZS Venter, Y Qian, X Lee - Agu Advances, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Surface temperature is often used to examine heat exposure in multi‐city studies and for
informing urban heat mitigation efforts due to scarcity of urban air temperature …

Responses of spatial relationships between ecosystem services and the Sustainable Development Goals to urbanization

Z Xu, J Peng, S Qiu, Y Liu, J Dong, H Zhang - Science of the Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Ecosystem services (ES) are the important component supporting the United Nations
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) realization. In recent decades, rapid urbanization …

Historical redlining is associated with increasing geographical disparities in bird biodiversity sampling in the United States

D Ellis-Soto, M Chapman, DH Locke - Nature Human Behaviour, 2023 - nature.com
Historic segregation and inequality are critical to understanding modern environmental
conditions. Race-based zoning policies, such as redlining in the United States during the …

Tourism and mental health: Foundations, frameworks, and futures

R Buckley - Journal of Travel Research, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Tourism contributes to mental health. We could: recognize, measure, value, and market
those contributions; analyze components and design products to maximize mental health …

A building volume adjusted nighttime light index for characterizing the relationship between urban population and nighttime light intensity

B Wu, C Yang, Q Wu, C Wang, J Wu, B Yu - Computers, Environment and …, 2023 - Elsevier
The brightness of nighttime lights (NTL) has been proven to be strongly related to population
density and thus has been widely used for population estimation from national to county …

Urban greenspace helps ameliorate people's negative sentiments during the COVID-19 pandemic: The case of Beijing

X Guo, X Tu, G Huang, X Fang, L Kong, J Wu - Building and Environment, 2022 - Elsevier
The COVID-19 pandemic has had negative effects on people's mental health worldwide,
especially for those who live in large cities. Studies have reported that urban greenspace …

Gross ecosystem product (GEP): Quantifying nature for environmental and economic policy innovation

H Zheng, T Wu, Z Ouyang, S Polasky, M Ruckelshaus… - Ambio, 2023 - Springer
The large-scale loss of ecosystem assets around the world, and the resultant reduction in
the provision of nature's benefits to people, underscores the urgent need for better metrics of …

Advancing urban green and blue space contributions to public health

RF Hunter, M Nieuwenhuijsen, C Fabian… - The Lancet Public …, 2023 - thelancet.com
Urban green and blue spaces (UGBS) have the potential to improve public health and
wellbeing, address health inequities, and provide co-benefits for the environment, economy …