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| DOI | 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2021.102385 |
| Socio-economic and climatic changes lead to contrasting global urban vegetation trends | |
| Zhang W.; Randall M.; Jensen M.B.; Brandt M.; Wang Q.; Fensholt R. | |
| 发表日期 | 2021 |
| ISSN | 0959-3780 |
| 卷号 | 71 |
| 英文摘要 | Urban greening can enhance quality of life by generating ecosystem services and has been proposed as a way of mitigating adverse consequences of global warming for human health. However, there is limited knowledge on global trends in urban vegetation and their relation to economic development and climate change. Here we studied 1,688 major cities worldwide and show that 70% (1,181) show an increase in vegetation derived from satellite observations (2000–2018). For 68% (1,138) of the cities studied, the increase in the urban vegetation is less strong as compared to the vegetation increase found in the surroundings of these cities. Overall, positive vegetation trends are widely observed in cities in Europe and North America, whereas negative vegetation trends in cities occur primarily in Africa, South America and Asia. Gross Domestic Product growth, population growth as well as temperature are found to be the main underlying drivers of the observed contrasts in changes in urban vegetation as compared to surrounding areas across continents. From a global synthesis of urban vegetation change, we quantify the role of social-economic development and climate change in regulating urban vegetation growth, and the contrasting imprint on cities of developed and developing countries. © 2021 The Authors |
| 关键词 | Climate changeEconomic developmentPopulation changeUrban greening |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| scopus关键词 | climate change; developing world; economic development; Gross Domestic Product; socioeconomic conditions; Africa; Asia; Europe; North America; South America |
| 来源期刊 | Global Environmental Change
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| 文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
| 条目标识符 | http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/249574 |
| 作者单位 | School of Geography, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, 210023, China; Key Laboratory of Virtual Geographic Environment (Nanjing Normal University), Ministry of Education, Nanjing, 210023, China; Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management (IGN), University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, 1350, Denmark; Satellite Environment Application Center, Ministry of Environmental Protection, Beijing, 100029, China |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Zhang W.,Randall M.,Jensen M.B.,et al. Socio-economic and climatic changes lead to contrasting global urban vegetation trends[J],2021,71. |
| APA | Zhang W.,Randall M.,Jensen M.B.,Brandt M.,Wang Q.,&Fensholt R..(2021).Socio-economic and climatic changes lead to contrasting global urban vegetation trends.Global Environmental Change,71. |
| MLA | Zhang W.,et al."Socio-economic and climatic changes lead to contrasting global urban vegetation trends".Global Environmental Change 71(2021). |
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