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Space Accessibility and Equity of Urban Green Space

Land, 2023
Urban green space is an essential form of infrastructure for cities, providing a significant spatial guarantee for sustainable urban development, an essential ecological, social, and cultural function, and an important symbol of urban modernisation and ...
Bo-Xun Huang, Wen-Ying Li, Wen-Juan Ma, Hua Xiao   +3 more
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Landscape Pattern and Ecological Network Structure in Urban Green Space Planning: A Case Study of Fuzhou City

Land, 2021
During the process of urbanization, many green spaces are fragmented for other uses. The key problems for researchers and planners are reducing the fragmentation of green spaces, constructing urban ecological networks, and maintaining sustainable ...
Bo-Xun Huang, Shang-Chia Chiou, Wen-Ying Li   +2 more
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Spatial Temporal of Urban Green Space in Tropical City Of Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia.

Journal of Applied Science & Process Engineering, 2021
Urban green space is one of the essential variables to influence urban climate. Urban green spaces offer evaporative cooling. The evaporative process is vital to mitigate the urban heat island. This paper investigates the spatial-temporal pattern changes
Ricky Anak Kemarau, Oliver Valentine Eboy   +1 more
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Exploring the equality of accessing urban green spaces: A comparative study of 341 Chinese cities

Ecological Indicators, 2021
Despite multiple benefits of green space for urban residents, the investigations on equality of access to green space are scarce. Most focused on individual cities and the results were inconsistent due to the varying definitions, scales, and evaluation ...
Longfeng Wu, Seung Kyum Kim
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The association between green space and cause-specific mortality in urban New Zealand: an ecological analysis of green space utility [PDF]

, 2010
<b>Background:</b> There is mounting international evidence that exposure to green environments is associated with health benefits, including lower mortality rates.
Mitchell Richard, Jamie Pearce, Mitchell, R., Day, P., Elizabeth Richardson, Kingham Simon, Richardson, E., Pearce, J.; id_orcid, Pearce Jamie, Richard Mitchell, Day Peter, Mitchell, R.J., Kingham, S., Simon Kingham, Richardson Elizabeth, Richardson, E.A., Peter Day, Pearce, J.   +17 more
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Using SPOT Data and FRAGSTAS to Analyze the Relationship between Plant Diversity and Green Space Landscape Patterns in the Tropical Coastal City of Zhanjiang, China

Remote Sensing, 2020
Urban green spaces provide a host of ecosystem services, the quantity and structure of which play an important role in human well-being. Rapid urbanization may modify urban green spaces, having various effects on plant diversity.
Xia-Lan Cheng, Mir Muhammad Nizamani, C.Y. Jim, Kelly Balfour, Liang-Jun Da, Salman Qureshi, Zhi-Xin Zhu, Hua-Feng Wang   +7 more
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Is level of neighbourhood green space associated with physical activity in green space? [PDF]

, 2013
Background There is accumulating evidence that greater availability of green space in a neighbourhood is associated with health benefits for the local population.
Pearce, Jamie; id_orcid, Jamie Pearce, Ord, K., Mitchell, R., Mitchell, Richard, Richard Mitchell, Katherine Ord, Ord, Katherine, Pearce, J.   +8 more
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Optimization Methods of Urban Green Space Layout on Tropical Islands to Control Heat Island Effects

Energies, 2022
With the rapid increase in demand for the construction and development of island cities in the South China Sea, the urban heat island phenomenon in such cities should become a key factor to be considered in future urban planning.
Haizhu Zhou, Qingqin Wang, Neng Zhu, Yitong Li, Jiayu Li, Lining Zhou, Yu Pei, Shuai Zhang   +7 more
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The integration of urban streetscapes provides the possibility to fully quantify the ecological landscape of urban green spaces: A case study of Xi’an city

Ecological Indicators, 2021
Urban green space is the critical composition of urban ecosystem, which provides numerous ecosystem services for urban residents, and has great value.
Hui Dang, Jing Li
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From contest to context: urban green space and public policy [PDF]

, 2018
The role of urban green spaces in supporting mental and physical wellbeing is well evidenced. At a time when mental ill-health is seen as a major factor limiting the life chances of the poorest groups in society, the case for the provision and protection
Dobson, J.R., Julian Dobson, Dobson, Julian   +2 more
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