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The Olympic Urban Park

open access: yesПроект Байкал, 2012
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Potential sources, influencing factors, and health risks of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in the surface soil of urban parks in Beijing, China.

Environmental Pollution, 2020
Urban parks are an important part of the urban ecological environment. The environmental quality of parks is related to human health. To evaluate sources of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in soils of urban parks and their possible health risks ...
Y. Qu   +8 more
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Aesthetic preference and mental restoration prediction in urban parks: An application of environmental modeling approach

Urban Forestry and Urban Greening, 2020
Urban parks enhance the aesthetic quality of urban area and increase the restorative potential of cities to avoid the negative psycho-physiological impact of living in the built environment.
A. Jahani, Maryam Saffariha
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The influence of local background climate on the dominant factors and threshold-size of the cooling effect of urban parks.

Science of the Total Environment, 2022
Urban parks can mitigate the urban heat island (UHI) by creating microclimates that lower in temperature than their surroundings, which are known as park cooling effect (PCE).
X. Geng   +5 more
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How can urban parks be planned to maximize cooling effect in hot extremes? Linking maximum and accumulative perspectives.

Journal of Environmental Management, 2022
How to maximize the cooling effect of urban parks in hot extremes has been closely linked to well-beings of citizens. Few studies have quantified urban parks' cooling effect in hot extremes from both maximum and accumulative perspectives.
Chunlei Du   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

How to quantify the cooling effect of urban parks? Linking maximum and accumulation perspectives

, 2021
Urban parks can significantly alleviate the urban heat island, an ecological issue caused by urbanization. Clarifying urban park cooling effect can improve climate change adaptability and urban sustainability.
Jian Peng   +5 more
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Children's playgrounds contain more microplastics than other areas in urban parks.

Science of the Total Environment, 2022
Children spend many hours in urban parks and playgrounds, where the tree canopy could filter microplastics released from the surrounding urban hotspots.
Vera S. Koutnik   +7 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The value of doing nothing – How informal green spaces can provide comparable ecosystem services to cultivated urban parks

Ecosystem Services, 2021
Urban green spaces have been widely recognized for their ecosystem services (ES) provisioning, but their resources are insufficient. Informal green spaces (IGS), the neglected areas whose maintenance was abandoned, can complement existing greenery ...
P. Sikorski   +14 more
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Differing perceptions of the youth and the elderly regarding cultural ecosystem services in urban parks: An exploration of the tour experience.

Science of the Total Environment, 2022
Parks have become important spaces for supplying cultural ecosystem services (CESs) in cities, and satisfying various needs of different age groups in parks has become a critical issue. Many studies focused on the environmental preferences and behaviours
Kaili Zhang   +11 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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