Emerging infectious disease, the household built environment characteristics, and urban planning: Evidence on avian influenza in Vietnam [0.03%]
新兴传染病、家庭建筑环境特征与城市规划:越南禽流感的证据
James H Spencer,Melissa L Finucane,Jefferson M Fox et al.
James H Spencer et al.
Recent concerns with pandemic outbreaks of human disease and their origins in animal populations have ignited concerns regarding connections between Emerging Infectious Diseases (EID) and development. As disasters, health, and infectious di...
Improving the wind environment in high-density cities by understanding urban morphology and surface roughness: A study in Hong Kong [0.03%]
通过理解城市形态和粗糙度改善高密度城市的风环境——以香港为例研究
Edward Ng,Chao Yuan,Liang Chen et al.
Edward Ng et al.
In this study, a high-resolution frontal area density (FAD) map that depicts the surface roughness of urban Hong Kong is produced using a mapping method that takes into account the dense urban morphology and the site wind availability of th...
Meeting critical challenges and striving for urban sustainability in China [0.03%]
迎接挑战 努力实现中国的城市可持续发展
Wei-Ning Xiang,Robyn M B Stuber,Xuchu Meng
Wei-Ning Xiang
China has experienced outstanding economic growth during the last three decades through urbanization. But at the same time, many ecological and social issues have been marginalized, leading to problems in public safety, health, and social e...
Priscilla Barbosa,Nathan H Schumaker,Kristin R Brandon et al.
Priscilla Barbosa et al.
Rapidly expanding road networks have been a key driver of the fragmentation and isolation of many wildlife species, and are a source of significant mortality due to collisions with vehicles. But not all animals are affected equally by trans...
Subtypes of Park Use and Self-Reported Psychological Benefits Among Older Adults: A Multilevel Latent Class Analysis Approach [0.03%]
老年人公园活动亚型与自我报告的心理效益:多层次潜在类别分析方法
Dongying Li,Yujia Zhai,Yayuan Xiao et al.
Dongying Li et al.
Healthy aging is a global health priority. Urban parks and green space have been demonstrated to provide mental health benefits to older adults. Despite growing interest in prescribing nature and park visits by physicians, we do not know wh...
Planning for community resilience to future United States domestic water demand [0.03%]
美国国内未来用水需求的社区恢复力规划
Brian R Pickard,Maliha Nash,Jeremy Baynes et al.
Brian R Pickard et al.
Costs of repairing and expanding aging infrastructure and competing demands for water from other sectors such as industry and agriculture are stretching water managers' abilities to meet essential domestic drinking water needs for future ge...
Adam Berland,Sheri A Shiflett,William D Shuster et al.
Adam Berland et al.
Urban impervious surfaces convert precipitation to stormwater runoff, which causes water quality and quantity problems. While traditional stormwater management has relied on gray infrastructure such as piped conveyances to collect and conve...
Exploring synergies between transit investment and dense redevelopment: a scenario analysis in a rapidly urbanizing landscape [0.03%]
基于快速城市化背景下的一种场景分析:探索交通投资与高密度再开发之间的协同效应
L Coxa,A Bassi,J Kolling et al.
L Coxa et al.
Like many urban areas around the world, Durham and Orange counties in North Carolina, USA are experiencing population growth and sprawl that is putting stress on the transportation system. Light rail and denser transit-oriented development ...
Urban Greenspace is Associated with Reduced Psychological Stress among Adolescents: A Geographic Ecological Momentary Assessment (GEMA) Analysis of Activity Space [0.03%]
基于活动空间的地理生态瞬时评估分析:城市绿地与青少年心理压力降低之间的关系
Jeremy Mennis,Michael Mason,Andreea Ambrus
Jeremy Mennis
This study investigates the momentary association between urban greenspace, captured using Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) derived from Landsat imagery, and psychological stress, captured using Geographic Ecological Momentary ...
Ed Gerrish,Shannon Lea Watkins
Ed Gerrish
Urban trees provide substantial public health and public environmental benefits. However, scholarly works suggest that urban trees may be unequally distributed among poor and minority urban communities, meaning that these communities are po...