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Benefits of Increasing Greenness on All-Cause Mortality in the Largest Metropolitan Areas of the United States Within the Past Two Decades

Frontiers in Public Health, 2022
Across the United States, cities are creating sustainability and climate action plans (CAPs) that call to increase local vegetation. These greening initiatives have the potential to not only benefit the environment but also human health. In epidemiologic
Paige Brochu, Marcia P. Jimenez, Peter James, Peter James, Patrick L. Kinney, Kevin Lane   +5 more
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Exploring the Potential Relationship Between Global Greenness and DALY Loss Due to Depressive Disorders

Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2022
ObjectivePrior studies have shown that greenness can reduce the burden of depressive disorders. However, most were focused on local-scale analyses while limited evaluated globally.
Aji Kusumaning Asri, Hui-Ju Tsai, Wen-Chi Pan, Yue Leon Guo, Yue Leon Guo, Chia-Pin Yu, Chi-Shin Wu, Huey-Jen Su, Shih-Chun Candice Lung, Shih-Chun Candice Lung, Shih-Chun Candice Lung, Chih-Da Wu, Chih-Da Wu, John D. Spengler   +13 more
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Multiple Greenness Indexes Revealed the Vegetation Greening during the Growing Season and Winter on the Tibetan Plateau despite Regional Variations

Remote Sensing, 2023
Vegetation is an essential component of terrestrial ecosystems and supplies multiple ecosystem benefits and services. Several indices have been used to monitor changes in vegetation communities using remotely-sensed data. However, only a few studies have
Jinxia Lv, Wenwu Zhao, Ting Hua, Lihao Zhang, Paulo Pereira   +4 more
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Green hospitals, green healthcare [PDF]

International Journal of Energy Production and Management, 2017
Concepts related to ‘green health’ and ‘green hospitals’ are rapidly changing and varying their scopes towards wider perspectives. Environmental health considers the natural, built and social environments, implying a better understanding of the way they impact on health, and accepting that the built environment plays an important role in it. On the one
Chías, P., Abad, T.
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Development and Validation of a Novel Tool for Assessing the Environmental Impact of 3D Printing Technologies: A Pharmaceutical Perspective

Pharmaceutics, 2022
Technological advancements have created infinite opportunities and rendered our life easier at several fronts. Nonetheless, the environment has suffered the aftermaths of modernization.
Souha H. Youssef, Sadikalmahdi Abdella, Sanjay Garg   +2 more
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Estimation of Gross Primary Productivity (GPP) Phenology of a Short-Rotation Plantation Using Remotely Sensed Indices Derived from Sentinel-2 Images

Remote Sensing, 2020
This study aimed to understand which vegetation indices (VIs) are an ideal proxy for describing phenology and interannual variability of Gross Primary Productivity (GPP) in short-rotation coppice (SRC) plantations.
Maral Maleki, Nicola Arriga, José Miguel Barrios, Sebastian Wieneke, Qiang Liu, Josep Peñuelas, Ivan A. Janssens, Manuela Balzarolo   +7 more
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Association of SO2/CO exposure and greenness with high blood pressure in children and adolescents: A longitudinal study in China

Frontiers in Public Health, 2023
IntroductionWe aimed to investigate the association between greenness around schools, long-term gaseous air pollution exposure (SO2 and CO), and blood pressure in children and adolescents.MethodsFrom 2006 to 2018, a total of 219,956 Chinese children and ...
Yi Zhang, Shuo Chen, Li Chen, Yu Wu, Jing Wei, Tao Ma, Manman Chen, Qi Ma, Jieyu Liu, Xinxin Wang, Yi Xing, Lijuan Wu, Lijuan Wu, Weiming Li, Weiming Li, Xiangtong Liu, Xiangtong Liu, Xiuhua Guo, Xiuhua Guo, Jun Ma, Yanhui Dong, Jingbo Zhang   +21 more
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When green meets green

Journal of Corporate Finance, 2020
We investigate whether and how the environmental consciousness (greenness for short) of firms and banks is reflected in the pricing of bank credit. Using a large international sample of syndicated loans over the period 2011-2019, we find that firms' are indeed rewarded for being green in the form of cheaper loans--however, only when borrowing from a ...
Degryse, Hans, Goncharenko, Roman, Theunisz, Carola, Vadasz, Tamas   +3 more
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The wellbeing of adolescents and the role of greenness: A cross-sectional study among Italian students

Frontiers in Public Health, 2023
IntroductionAdolescence is a critical period of life, and the level of wellbeing acquired during this stage might have an influence on health status in adulthood.
Giacomo Scaioli, Giulia Squillacioti, Michela Bersia, Michela Bersia, Valeria Bellisario, Valeria Bellisario, Alberto Borraccino, Roberto Bono, Paola Dalmasso, Patrizia Lemma   +9 more
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Continuously Vegetation Greening over Inner Mongolia for the Past Three Decades

Remote Sensing, 2021
The warming climate has rapidly altered vegetation growth in drylands, and consequently, has put great pressure on sustainable livelihoods. Various datasets have been applied from local to global scale to study vegetation dynamics and there is a lack of ...
Hui Zhang, Xin Zhang, Yi Shang, Giri Kattel, Lijuan Miao   +4 more
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