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Greening practitioners worry about green gentrification but many don’t address it in their work

2023

As cities attempt to ameliorate urban green inequities, a potential challenge has emerged in the form of green gentrification. Although practitioners are central to urban greening and associated gentrification, there…

Achieving the Urban Tree Trifecta: Scenario Modelling for Salubrious, Resilient, and Diverse Urban Forests in Densifying Cities

2023

Background: Urban forests can provide nature-based solutions (NBS) to complex climate-change challenges via the provision of ecosystem services such as shade and cooling that offset increased risks of chronic diseases…

Assessing changes in urban vegetation using Normalised Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) for epidemiological studies

2023

Urban vegetation is an important component of healthy, livable cities and has been linked to several benefits, including improved human health outcomes, natural system regulation, and habitat provision. Understanding and…

Modelling Four Neighbourhood-Scale Urban Forest Scenarios for 2050: Vancouver, Canada

2023

Background: Urban forests are increasingly recognized as important tools in climate change mitigation and adaptation, prompting many cities to set tree canopy cover targets. However, current gaps in knowledge include…

British Columbia, Canada, as a bellwether for climate-driven respiratory and allergic disorders

2023

Touching briefly on health effects related to climate change, we orient this Paradigms and Perspectives article within the context of British Columbia, Canada, in hopes that highlighting challenges in British…

Invited Perspective: Nature Is Unfairly Distributed in the United States—But That’s Only Part of the Global Green Equity Story

2023

As we experience increased impacts of climate change and urbanization, the many benefits to health and well-being provided by green and blue spaces are becoming more important, and research has…

Data-driven natural asset management – Rogers Demo Day Video

2022

5G Data-Driven Natural Asset Management and Integration Smart Nature based Solutions for Sustainable Cities, a Campus as a Living Lab funded project, explores the use of smart and digital technologies…

Wealthy, educated, and… non-millennial? Variable patterns of distributional inequity in 31 Canadian cities

2022

This article assesses the distribution of urban vegetation in 31 Canadian cities to determine whether certain social-economic/demographic factors are associated with increased proximity to greenness. Using spatial lag models, Canadian…

Improvement, not displacement: A framework for urban green gentrification research and practice

2022

As researchers have continued to expand the bounds of green gentrification scholarship, understanding of what green gentrification is and how to identify the phenomenon on the ground has grown obscured….

Expelled from the garden? Understanding the dynamics of green gentrification in Vancouver, British Columbia

2022

There is substantial evidence detailing the ecological and social benefits provided through urban greening. However, research in the field of urban green equity has revealed that these benefits are not…

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