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Health and climate related ecosystem services provided by street trees in the urban environment

Overview of attention for article published in Environmental Health, March 2016
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Title
Health and climate related ecosystem services provided by street trees in the urban environment
Published in
Environmental Health, March 2016
DOI 10.1186/s12940-016-0103-6
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Authors

Jennifer A. Salmond, Marc Tadaki, Sotiris Vardoulakis, Katherine Arbuthnott, Andrew Coutts, Matthias Demuzere, Kim N. Dirks, Clare Heaviside, Shanon Lim, Helen Macintyre, Rachel N. McInnes, Benedict W. Wheeler

Abstract

Urban tree planting initiatives are being actively promoted as a planning tool to enable urban areas to adapt to and mitigate against climate change, enhance urban sustainability and improve human health and well-being. However, opportunities for creating new areas of green space within cities are often limited and tree planting initiatives may be constrained to kerbside locations. At this scale, the net impact of trees on human health and the local environment is less clear, and generalised approaches for evaluating their impact are not well developed.In this review, we use an urban ecosystems services framework to evaluate the direct, and locally-generated, ecosystems services and disservices provided by street trees. We focus our review on the services of major importance to human health and well-being which include 'climate regulation', 'air quality regulation' and 'aesthetics and cultural services'. These are themes that are commonly used to justify new street tree or street tree retention initiatives. We argue that current scientific understanding of the impact of street trees on human health and the urban environment has been limited by predominantly regional-scale reductionist approaches which consider vegetation generally and/or single out individual services or impacts without considering the wider synergistic impacts of street trees on urban ecosystems. This can lead planners and policymakers towards decision making based on single parameter optimisation strategies which may be problematic when a single intervention offers different outcomes and has multiple effects and potential trade-offs in different places.We suggest that a holistic approach is required to evaluate the services and disservices provided by street trees at different scales. We provide information to guide decision makers and planners in their attempts to evaluate the value of vegetation in their local setting. We show that by ensuring that the specific aim of the intervention, the scale of the desired biophysical effect and an awareness of a range of impacts guide the choice of i) tree species, ii) location and iii) density of tree placement, street trees can be an important tool for urban planners and designers in developing resilient and resourceful cities in an era of climatic change.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Belgium 2 <1%
Italy 2 <1%
Brazil 1 <1%
India 1 <1%
France 1 <1%
Mexico 1 <1%
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Nigeria 1 <1%
Japan 1 <1%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 851 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 133 15%
Student > Ph. D. Student 123 14%
Researcher 115 13%
Student > Bachelor 86 10%
Student > Doctoral Student 43 5%
Other 118 14%
Unknown 244 28%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Environmental Science 224 26%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 86 10%
Social Sciences 48 6%
Engineering 44 5%
Design 23 3%
Other 135 16%
Unknown 302 35%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 47. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 25 May 2023.
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#882,657
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Outputs from Environmental Health
#209
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Outputs of similar age
#15,102
of 306,375 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Environmental Health
#6
of 40 outputs
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