[HTML][HTML] How can vegetation protect us from air pollution? A critical review on green spaces' mitigation abilities for air-borne particles from a public health perspective …

A Diener, P Mudu - Science of the Total Environment, 2021 - Elsevier
Air pollution causes the largest death toll among environmental risks globally, but
interventions to purify ambient air remain inadequate. Vegetation and green spaces have …

[HTML][HTML] Designing vegetation barriers for urban air pollution abatement: A practical review for appropriate plant species selection

Y Barwise, P Kumar - Npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, 2020 - nature.com
Vegetation can form a barrier between traffic emissions and adjacent areas, but the optimal
configuration and plant composition of such green infrastructure (GI) are currently unclear …

A review of strategies for mitigating roadside air pollution in urban street canyons

Y Huang, C Lei, CH Liu, P Perez, H Forehead… - Environmental …, 2021 - Elsevier
Urban street canyons formed by high-rise buildings restrict the dispersion of vehicle
emissions, which pose severe health risks to the public by aggravating roadside air quality …

Impact of roadside conifers vegetation growth on air pollution mitigation

K Hashad, B Yang, J Gallagher, R Baldauf… - Landscape and Urban …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract As a Nature-Based Solution, roadside green infrastructure (also known as roadside
barriers) can potentially mitigate traffic-related air pollution by increasing dispersion and …

Obstacles influence on existing urban canyon ventilation and air pollutant concentration: A review of potential measures

R Buccolieri, OS Carlo, E Rivas, JL Santiago… - Building and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Air pollution in cities, especially in existing urban canyons, poses a global significant long-
term health risk to the urban population, and urban planners are faced with the challenge of …

[HTML][HTML] Vectorized dataset of roadside noise barriers in China using street view imagery

Z Qian, M Chen, Y Yang, T Zhong… - Earth System …, 2022 - essd.copernicus.org
Roadside noise barriers (RNBs) are important urban infrastructures to ensure that cities
remain liveable. However, the absence of accurate and large-scale geospatial data on …

Green environments and cardiovascular health

RA Yeager, TR Smith, A Bhatnagar - Trends in cardiovascular medicine, 2020 - Elsevier
Several large epidemiological studies have found robust associations between greenness
and the risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD). These studies report that close residential …

Quantifying the effects of urban fabric and vegetation combination pattern to mitigate particle pollution in near-road areas using machine learning

X Liu, XQ Shi, ZR Peng, HD He - Sustainable Cities and Society, 2023 - Elsevier
There are many intertwined factors such as urban fabric, vegetation combination, and
meteorological conditions that influence the spatial distribution of fine particles (PM 2.5 …

[HTML][HTML] Effect of air quality improvement by urban parks on mitigating PM2. 5 and its associated heavy metals: A mobile-monitoring field study

TH Su, CS Lin, SY Lu, JC Lin, HH Wang… - Journal of Environmental …, 2022 - Elsevier
Field mobile monitoring of PM 2.5, equipped with a highly accurate device, was performed
for two types of urban parks in Taiwan. Measurements were taken in the morning and …

Using street view images to identify road noise barriers with ensemble classification model and geospatial analysis

K Zhang, Z Qian, Y Yang, M Chen, T Zhong… - Sustainable cities and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Road noise barriers (RNBs) are important urban infrastructures to relieve the harm of traffic
noise pollution for citizens. Therefore, obtaining the spatial distribution characteristics of …