Journal article
Recent greening may curb urban warming in Latin American cities of better economic conditions
Landscape and urban planning, v 240, 104896
Dec 2023
PMID: 38046954
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Abstract
•Links among economic conditions, green space and warming were assessed for Latin American cities.•Better economic conditions exacerbate warming via historical loss of green space.•Greening in economically developed cities partially curbs warming.•These patterns vary by economic indicator, temperature measures and city subgroups.
Rising temperatures have profound impacts on the well-being of urban residents. However, factors explaining the temporal variability of urban thermal environment, or urban warming, remain insufficiently understood, especially in the Global South. Addressing this gap, we studied the relationship between city-level economic conditions and urban warming, and how urban green space mediated this relationship, focusing on 359 major Latin American cities between 2001 and 2022. While effect sizes varied by economic and temperature measures used, we found that better economic conditions were associated with lower baseline greenness in 2011, which contributed to faster warming. There was modest evidence that this faster warming associated with lower baseline greenness and improved economic conditions was partially offset by cooling from recent greening (2001–2022) in cities of better economic conditions. This offset was more evident in arid cities. Together, these findings provide insights into the urban warming mechanism manifested through the effect of economic conditions on urban green space, for Latin American cities and other high-density cities transforming in a similar context.
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- Title
- Recent greening may curb urban warming in Latin American cities of better economic conditions
- Creators
- Yang Ju - Nanjing UniversityIryna Dronova - University of California, BerkeleyDaniel A. Rodriguez - University of California, BerkeleyMaryia Bakhtsiyarava - University of California, BerkeleyIrene Farah - University of California, Berkeley
- Publication Details
- Landscape and urban planning, v 240, 104896
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Urban Health Collaborative
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:001149823200001
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-85171676597
- Other Identifier
- 991021966871804721
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- Domestic collaboration
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- Web of Science research areas
- Ecology
- Environmental Studies
- Geography
- Geography, Physical
- Regional & Urban Planning
- Urban Studies