Peng Zeng , Yaoyi Liu , Tian Tian , Yue Che , Marco Helbich
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Abstract
Climate change-intensified urban warming has brought attention to urban parks’ spatial allocation due to their cooling effects. However, conventional accessibility assessments of park cooling effects consider temperature and size, overlooking critical factors such as thermal comfort and supply and demand differences in thermal environments, which more accurately represent public thermal stress. We developed a multimode Gaussian-based Huff three-step floating catchment area method based on thermal stress differences between population locations and parks. This method integrates thermal comfort and cellular population data to assess the spatial mismatch between the supply and demand for park cooling services in Shanghai. Our findings show that most central and developing urban areas have excellent park cooling accessibility. However, considering population demand, central Shanghai requires improved internal park planning to enhance the cooling supply. In contrast, Shanghai's suburban areas exhibit significant supply-demand imbalances, especially in the south and southeast; they require an enhanced cooling supply through planning interventions. Incorporating thermal comfort differences into calculations shifts the highest per capita cooling supply area from the outer suburbs to the suburbs, substantially reducing areas with high demand but low supply. Our novel analytical approach to assessing park cooling accessibility can assist policymakers in developing precise climate adaptation strategies.
期刊介绍:
Urban Forestry and Urban Greening is a refereed, international journal aimed at presenting high-quality research with urban and peri-urban woody and non-woody vegetation and its use, planning, design, establishment and management as its main topics. Urban Forestry and Urban Greening concentrates on all tree-dominated (as joint together in the urban forest) as well as other green resources in and around urban areas, such as woodlands, public and private urban parks and gardens, urban nature areas, street tree and square plantations, botanical gardens and cemeteries.
The journal welcomes basic and applied research papers, as well as review papers and short communications. Contributions should focus on one or more of the following aspects:
-Form and functions of urban forests and other vegetation, including aspects of urban ecology.
-Policy-making, planning and design related to urban forests and other vegetation.
-Selection and establishment of tree resources and other vegetation for urban environments.
-Management of urban forests and other vegetation.
Original contributions of a high academic standard are invited from a wide range of disciplines and fields, including forestry, biology, horticulture, arboriculture, landscape ecology, pathology, soil science, hydrology, landscape architecture, landscape planning, urban planning and design, economics, sociology, environmental psychology, public health, and education.