The effects of urban greenspace characteristics and socio-demographics vary among cultural ecosystem services
Urban parks provide numerous cultural ecosystem services that are essential to the wellbeing of residents…
2020
The microclimatic interaction of a small urban park in central Melbourne with its surrounding urban environment during heat events
Urban parks are important within cities and towns for mitigating high air temperatures and improving human thermal comfort, especially during hot summer conditions…
Climate change adaptation and carbon emissions in green urban spaces: Case study of Adelaide
Concentrations of building mass and insufficient greenery in cities are identified to contribute significantly to extended heat stress in the built environment, commonly known as the urban heat island (UHI) effect. This paper presents a scenario-based modelling built on climate change projections and potential alterations of urban greenery in 2030 and 2090 in Adelaide, South Australia…
Urban agriculture could provide 15% of food supply to Sydney, Australia, under expanded land use scenarios
Highlights Sydney could grow 15 % of its food supply on verges, vacant land and 25 % of yard space. All required water and compost for soil amendment could be sourced from urban waste. Available amateur labour is insufficient to manage the land cultivated in these scenarios. A professional urban agriculture workforce may be viable, …
CFD simulation of the drag effect of urban trees: Source term modification method revisited at the tree scale
Local air circulation is influenced by the drag forces exerted by urban vegetation. In this study, tree canopy parameterization in computational fluid dynamics (CFD) with source term modifications is conducted at the tree scale, which builds upon the models previously used in the literature…
A spatiotemporal urban metabolism model for the Canberra suburb of Braddon in Australia
Decision makers, planners and actors in cities design policies, plan, invest money and build infrastructure, and consumers buy houses and use transport infrastructure without sound information about the environmental consequences of many of those decisions…
Decision-making of municipal urban forest managers through the lens of governance
Awareness of the benefits of urban trees has led many cities to develop ambitious targets to increase tree numbers and canopy cover. Policy instruments that guide the planning of cities recognize the need for new governance arrangements to implement this agenda…
Patterns of tree removal and canopy change on public and private land in the City of Melbourne
Many cities face a struggle to reconcile ambitious tree canopy cover targets with urban development pressures. Canopy cover in The City of Melbourne…
Meeting a diversity of needs through a diversity of species: Urban residents’ favourite and disliked tree species across eleven towns in South Africa and Zimbabwe
Understanding of urban residents’ preferences and dislikes for tree species and attributes is necessary to provide them with the species they most favour…
Biochar and compost equally improve urban soil physical and biological properties and tree growth, with no added benefit in combination
Soil compaction can be a major impediment to tree growth as it damages soil physical and biological properties and reduces plant available water. This may result in trees that are more vulnerable to seasonal water stress…