A5069594173- Urban Green Space and Health
- Urban Heat Island Mitigation
- Smoking Behavior and Cessation
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Canadian Policy and Governance
- Urban Agriculture and Sustainability
- Multimedia Communication and Technology
- Climate Change and Health Impacts
- Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology
- Cleft Lip and Palate Research
- Noise Effects and Management
- Environmental Quality and Pollution
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Fire effects on ecosystems
- Local Government Finance and Decentralization
- Race, History, and American Society
- American Constitutional Law and Politics
- Diverse Education Studies and Reforms
- Oral and Craniofacial Lesions
- Corruption and Economic Development
- Dental Health and Care Utilization
- Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
- Soil and Land Suitability Analysis
Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education
2020-2023
Environmental Protection Agency
2020-2023
Research Triangle Park Foundation
2020-2021
Oak Ridge Associated Universities
2020
Washington University in St. Louis
2011
Case Western Reserve University
2007
This article defines the land cover classes used in Meter-Scale Urban Land Cover (MULC), a unique, high resolution (one meter2 per pixel) dataset developed for 30 US communities United States Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA) EnviroAtlas. MULC data categorize landscape into these classes: impervious surface, tree, grass-herbaceous, shrub, soil-barren, water, wetland and agriculture. are to calculate approximately 100 EnviroAtlas metrics that serve as indicators of nature’s benefits...
Improving mental health is recognized as an important factor for achieving global development goals. Despite strong evidence that neighborhood greenery promotes better health, there are environmental justice concerns over the distribution of greenery. Underlying these present-day consequences historical discriminatory financial investment practices, such redlining which was established by U.S. Federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation (HOLC) in 1930s. The impacts on and disparities have been...
Droughts that are hotter, more frequent, and last longer; pest outbreaks extensive common; fires extensive, perhaps severe have raised concern forests in the western United States may not return once disturbed by one or of these agents. Numerous field-based studies been undertaken to better understand forest response changing disturbance regimes. Meta-analyses provide broad guidelines on biotic abiotic factors hinder recovery, but study-to-study differences methods objectives do support...
Background: Excess body weight is a major risk factor for many chronic diseases. Studies have linked green environments to human health and wellbeing, including healthy weight. However, few considered plausible effect pathways ecosystem services. We introduce greenery metrics with defined spatial allocation identify services that may be most relevant fitness-related outcomes, examining their relationships status across 29 U.S. cities.Methods: used data on mass index (BMI) other factors...