Purpose of review Biodiversity underpins urban ecosystem functions that are essential for
human health and well-being. Understanding how biodiversity relates to human health is a …

Parks are important solutions to urban heat challenges given their potential for cool island
effects. Observation and assessment of park cooling performance are important for providing …

While it is well recognised that increasing vegetation cover reduces the Urban Heat Island
(UHI) effect in cities, less is understood about the spatial pattern of vegetation type required …

Green infrastructure (GI) has emerged as a feasible strategy for promoting adaptive
capacities of cities to climate change by alleviating urban heat island (UHI) and thus heat …

Current climate change aggravates human health hazards posed by heat stress. Forests can
locally mitigate this by acting as strong thermal buffers, yet potential mediation by forest …

Urban forests can mitigate the urban heat island effect by serving as cooling islands.
However, urban forest cooling potentials and their influencing factors at the single tree and …

The deterioration of the urban thermal environment has attracted increasing attention from
scholars all over the world. A large number of studies show that green space in cities can …

Planting trees is considered to relieve the thermal load. However, trees may" pollute" the air
quality. Tree net effects should receive more attention, but only a few studies have …

Mounting evidence supports the connections between exposure to environmental typologies–
–such as green spaces––and human health. However, the mechanistic links that connect …

Urban valleys as a primary element of the urban environment have played an undeniable
role in the intensification of urban heat islands as climate change has increased in the past …