The role of trees in urban stormwater management

A Berland, SA Shiflett, WD Shuster… - Landscape and urban …, 2017 - Elsevier
Urban impervious surfaces convert precipitation to stormwater runoff, which causes water
quality and quantity problems. While traditional stormwater management has relied on gray …

Review on the impact of urban geometry and pedestrian level greening on outdoor thermal comfort

E Jamei, P Rajagopalan, M Seyedmahmoudian… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2016 - Elsevier
The number of hot days is increasing in many parts of the world because of the heat island
phenomenon and global climate change. High air temperature greatly affects human …

The role of urban trees in reducing land surface temperatures in European cities

J Schwaab, R Meier, G Mussetti, S Seneviratne… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Urban trees influence temperatures in cities. However, their effectiveness at mitigating urban
heat in different climatic contexts and in comparison to treeless urban green spaces has not …

Planning for cooler cities: A framework to prioritise green infrastructure to mitigate high temperatures in urban landscapes

BA Norton, AM Coutts, SJ Livesley, RJ Harris… - Landscape and urban …, 2015 - Elsevier
Warming associated with urban development will be exacerbated in future years by
temperature increases due to climate change. The strategic implementation of urban green …

Effects of the spatial configuration of trees on urban heat mitigation: A comparative study

W Zhou, J Wang, ML Cadenasso - Remote Sensing of Environment, 2017 - Elsevier
Urban greenspace has significant cooling effects on urban heat. Recent studies
investigating the effects of spatial configuration of greenspace show significant, but …

Green spaces provide substantial but unequal urban cooling globally

Y Li, JC Svenning, W Zhou, K Zhu, JF Abrams… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Climate warming disproportionately impacts countries in the Global South by increasing
extreme heat exposure. However, geographic disparities in adaptation capacity are unclear …

Reconceptualizing green infrastructure for climate change adaptation: Barriers to adoption and drivers for uptake by spatial planners

T Matthews, AY Lo, JA Byrne - Landscape and urban planning, 2015 - Elsevier
Urban green infrastructure can help cities adapt to climate change. Spatial planning can
play an important role in utilizing green infrastructure for adaptation. Yet climate change …

Coupling biogeochemical cycles in urban environments: ecosystem services, green solutions, and misconceptions

DE Pataki, MM Carreiro, J Cherrier… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Urban green space is purported to offset greenhouse‐gas (GHG) emissions, remove air and
water pollutants, cool local climate, and improve public health. To use these services …

Regulation of outdoor thermal comfort by trees in Hong Kong

L Kong, KKL Lau, C Yuan, Y Chen, Y Xu, C Ren… - Sustainable Cities and …, 2017 - Elsevier
Urbanization is transforming human society in many ways. Besides all the obvious benefits,
it also brings negative impacts such as the well-documented urban heat island (UHI) effect …

Watering our cities: The capacity for Water Sensitive Urban Design to support urban cooling and improve human thermal comfort in the Australian context

AM Coutts, NJ Tapper, J Beringer… - Progress in physical …, 2013 - journals.sagepub.com
Urban drainage infrastructure is generally designed to rapidly export stormwater away from
the urban environment to minimize flood risk created by extensive impervious surface cover …