ArticleNature communications2024
Green spaces provide substantial but unequal urban cooling globally.
Article in Nature communications, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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21 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
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- Global patterns of inequality in pedestrian shade provision.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Ambient temperature and the variability between neighbouring days impacts in-patient hospitalizations in the United Kingdom.Communications medicine · 2026Article
- Analysis of spatiotemporal characteristics and influencing factors of residents' physical activity in urban green spaces.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
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- Utilizing network optimization to mitigate rising greenspace exposure inequalities in Chinese cities from 2000 to 2050.Environmental science and ecotechnology · 2025Article
- Narrowing the gap for city building height predictions.Scientific reports · 2025Article
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Abstract
Climate warming disproportionately impacts countries in the Global South by increasing extreme heat exposure. However, geographic disparities in adaptation capacity are unclear. Here, we assess global inequality in green spaces, which urban residents critically rely on to mitigate outdoor heat stress. We use remote sensing data to quantify daytime cooling by urban greenery in the warm seasons across the ~500 largest cities globally. We show a striking contrast, with Global South cities having ~70% of the cooling capacity of cities in the Global North (2.5 ± 1.0 °C vs. 3.6 ± 1.7 °C). A similar gap occurs for the cooling adaptation benefits received by an average resident in these cities (2.2 ± 0.9 °C vs. 3.4 ± 1.7 °C). This cooling adaptation inequality is due to discrepancies in green space quantity and quality between cities in the Global North and South, shaped by socioeconomic and natural factors. Our analyses further suggest a vast potential for enhancing cooling adaptation while reducing global inequality.
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