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Artificial intelligence adoption in urban planning governance: A systematic review of advancements in decision-making, and policy making

IF 7.9 1区环境科学与生态学 Q1 ECOLOGY

Landscape and Urban Planning

Pub Date : 2025-02-27 DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2025.105337

Desmond Lartey , Kris M.Y. Law

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been increasingly used in urban planning to tackle complex urban population growth and socioeconomic demands. AI data-driven methodologies have transformative potential for decision-making and policymaking in urban governance. However, a gap exists between AI’s theoretical promises and its practical integration into governance frameworks. While smart cities highlight technological advancements, they also expose socio-political challenges such as inclusivity, ethics, and public trust.

This study systematically reviews literature on AI adoption in urban planning and governance, examining decision-making advancements and the socio-political dimensions of AI integration. Unlike previous studies, our review connects technological innovation with governance contexts, offering a nuanced analysis of AI’s role in urban systems. The findings show that AI research in urban governance is concentrated in Europe, North America, and Asia, with Africa and Central America being underrepresented. Since 2020, AI research has surged due to smart city initiatives but remains mostly theoretical with limited practical applications in urban governance. Additionally, AI’s integration with public administration and urban studies is minimal, raising concerns about equity and transparency in algorithmic decision-making.

By identifying these gaps and challenges, this study provides actionable insights for policymakers, urban planners, and researchers. Inclusive governance frameworks that balance technological innovation with ethical and sociopolitical considerations are recommended, to ensure that AI-driven urban development promotes equitable, efficient, and sustainable outcomes.

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Using large language models to investigate cultural ecosystem services perceptions: A few-shot and prompt method

IF 7.9 1区环境科学与生态学 Q1 ECOLOGY

Landscape and Urban Planning

Pub Date : 2025-02-24 DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2025.105323

Hanyue Luo , Zhiduo Zhang , Qing Zhu , Nour El Houda Ben Ameur , Xiao Liu , Fan Ding , Yongli Cai

The advancement of generative AI has profoundly impacted various aspects of society, including scientific research, but its application in landscape research remains underexplored. In this study, large language models are applied to analyze cultural ecosystem services, which are a key connection between humans and nature, reflecting the intangible benefits that ecosystems provide. Social media texts from the Lushan Scenic Area, known for its rich cultural ecosystem services, were analyzed. The methodology involved adapting the model using few-shot learning to classify cultural ecosystem services and associated sentiments. Prompts were specifically designed to optimize model performance. The validation process compared the performance of three base models (GLM-4-0520, ERNIE-4.0-8K, and Moonshot-v1-8k) alongside five prompts. The cultural ecosystem services within the study area were subsequently analyzed based on model outputs. The findings indicated superior performance by the Moonshot-v1-8k model, achieving 82.2 % micro-F1 and 80.3 % macro-F1. The implementation of chain-of-thought prompts and cultural ecosystem services definition prompts enhanced micro-F1 and macro-F1 by up to 6.3 % and 3.3 %, respectively. Within the Lushan Scenic Area, aesthetic services were identified as the most frequently perceived, while recreational services received the most negative sentiments. A marked increase in public interest in physical health was observed following the COVID-19 pandemic. This study highlights the potential of large language models to advance the analysis of cultural ecosystem services and landscape perceptions. By offering a novel approach to text analysis, the findings contribute valuable insights for landscape management and underscore the utility of AI technologies.

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Impacts of forest clear-cutting on recreational activity: Evidence from crowdsourced mobility data

IF 7.9 1区环境科学与生态学 Q1 ECOLOGY

Landscape and Urban Planning

Pub Date : 2025-02-21 DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2025.105332

Zander S. Venter, David N. Barton, Vegard Gundersen

Intensive forest management practices including stand-replacing clear-cuts continue to dominate silviculture globally, yet their impacts on recreational ecosystem services are largely unknown. While landscape preference studies suggest intact forests are favoured over forest clear-cuts for aesthetics, it’s unclear if this influences recreational behaviour. Analysing a sample of 2.7 M recreational activities (0.4 M pedestrian, 2.1 M cycling and 0.1 M skiing) over Norway during 2017 along forest trails that were within 1 km of a subsequent clear-cut in 2018, we quantified the impact on activity changes observed in 2019 using a before-after-control-impact (BACI) study design. Across the 10,781 clear-cuts included in our analysis, we found a negative effect on pedestrian activity (−3.7 ± 4 %; ± 95 % CI), a neutral effect on cycling activity (0.5 ± 3.5 %) and a positive, but highly variable effect on skiing activity (13.4 ± 15.4 %). Therefore, our results suggest that the research on people’s stated preference for intact and natural forests is corroborated by behavioural avoidance of clear-cut forests during pedestrian activity, but not necessarily cycling or skiing. After taking all activities into account and extrapolating to the total population of recreationists in Norway, we found that clear-cuts displace 1.5 M ± 0.8 M activities annually, with more pronounced impacts near urban areas. We conducted a cross-sectional regression analysis and found effect sizes which corroborate our BACI results, indicating that clear-cuts not only displace, but reduce total recreational activity. Although the reduced activity due to clearcuts is small (0.15 %) relative to the circa 1 billion recreational activities reported in Norway annually, it may be consequential for forestry policy recommendations depending on how one values recreational ecosystem services. In the context of ecosystem service accounting, we argue that the value from recreation services lost due to clear-cutting exceeds the value of timber provisioning services gained, particularly in peri-urban forests.

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Wildfire risk in Alaska: Spatial association between social vulnerability, wildfire hazard, and wildfire mitigation programs

IF 7.9 1区环境科学与生态学 Q1 ECOLOGY

Landscape and Urban Planning

Pub Date : 2025-02-17 DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2025.105321

Xiaoyu Liang , Desheng Liu

High-latitude regions are experiencing larger, longer, and more severe wildfires, leading to significant impacts on ecosystems and human societies. However, quantitative assessments of wildfire risk that consider both social and ecological characteristics are still lacking in these remote regions. Using Alaska as a case study, we quantified and mapped the association between social vulnerability, wildfire hazard potential, and selected wildfire mitigation activities (federal and state fuel treatment projects and Community Wildfire Protection Plans) to address this gap. We observed great variation in the associations. Remote regions in southcentral and interior Alaska displayed moderate-to-high social vulnerability and wildfire hazard potential, while urban areas exhibited lower social vulnerability regardless of wildfire hazard potential. Notably, state fuel treatments and CWPPs, which are concentrated near urban areas, generally showed a negative association with social vulnerability, though the CWPP–vulnerability association turned positive under high wildfire hazard in urban regions. In contrast, federal fuel treatment projects, which were widespread across the landscape, showed a consistent positive association with social vulnerability regardless of wildfire hazard potential and urban/rural divisions. Our results provide critical context for the policy challenges posed by escalating wildfire risk and inform the environmental justice implications of wildfire mitigation activities. This study contributes to larger-scale, global wildfire management assessments, offering guidance for equitable, context-specific wildfire management strategies in other regions facing increasing wildfire risks.

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Urban green space, respiratory health and rising temperatures: An examination of the complex relationship between green space and adult asthma across racialized neighborhoods in Los Angeles County

IF 7.9 1区环境科学与生态学 Q1 ECOLOGY

Landscape and Urban Planning

Pub Date : 2025-02-17 DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2025.105320

Peng Chen, Bernadette Hanlon

Using spatial regressions in Piecewise Structural Equation Modeling, this study aims to investigate the relationship between urban green space (UGS) and adult asthma-related emergency department (ED) visits in urbanized Los Angeles County. Controlling for socioeconomic and built-environment factors at the neighborhood scale, we examine both direct associations between various UGS types—trees, grass, and water bodies—and asthma ED visit rates, as well as indirect pathways through air pollution (PM2.5) and land surface temperature (LST). Our findings reveal distinct pathways through which UGS types are associated with asthma ED visit rates. Proportions of trees and water bodies are negatively associated with asthma ED visit rates through different indirect pathways: trees through both LST and PM2.5 pathways, and water bodies through the LST pathway. Grass proportions, conversely, are positively associated with asthma ED visit rates both directly and indirectly through LST. We also highlight variations in these associations across different racialized communities. Specifically, in predominantly White communities, tree proportions demonstrate an additional direct negative association with asthma ED visit rates, whereas the positive associations between grass proportions and both asthma ED visit rates and LST, observed in minoritized communities of color, are not present. Moreover, the overall positive association between grass proportions and asthma ED visit rates is significantly stronger in minoritized communities of color. This research suggests prioritizing trees and water bodies over grass in green infrastructure planning and advocates for a context-specific approach in urban planning and public health management to optimize the benefits of UGS.

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Response to Guerin et al. Comment on ’Mapping the climate risk to urban forests at city scale’ 对 Guerin 等人关于 "绘制城市规模的城市森林气候风险图 "的评论的回应

IF 7.9 1区环境科学与生态学 Q1 ECOLOGY

Landscape and Urban Planning

Pub Date : 2025-02-15 DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2025.105324

Manuel Esperon-Rodriguez , Rachael Gallagher , Niels Souverijns , Quentin Lejeune , Carl-Friedrich Schleussner , Mark G. Tjoelker

Urban forests are broadly considered as a nature-based solution; however, they are also vulnerable to climate change, highlighting the need to identify species and cities at risk. A novel approach was developed to identify species and locations at potential climatic risk using the safety margin (i.e., a metric of species’ climate sensitivity) (Esperon-Rodriguez et al., 2024a). A recent comment on this approach by Guerin et al. (2025) found no relationship between safety margin estimates with hydraulic vulnerability; therefore, they raised caution about using climate-based methods to assess species’ climate risk. Here, we present evidence that a relative tolerance rank (i.e., a metric of performance that spans multiple traits) does indeed show a positive relationship with safety margin. We also found evidence that the species safety margin correlated negatively to crown dieback observed during extreme heat and drought. While caveats are advised when using climate-based methods, we suggest that these methods can provide context-specific insights for urban forest management, bridging the gap between broad climatic tolerances and local environmental conditions.

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Substitution effects and spatial factors in the social demand for landscape aesthetics in agroecosystems

IF 7.9 1区环境科学与生态学 Q1 ECOLOGY

Landscape and Urban Planning

Pub Date : 2025-02-11 DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2025.105322

José A. Albaladejo-García, José M. Martínez-Paz

One of the cultural ecosystem services provided by agroecosystems is landscape aesthetics, which has a very positive effect on social well-being. In many areas, such as the Mediterranean, changes in land use have been negatively affecting the provision of this service, which is becoming increasingly crucial in the formulation of agricultural policies. The objective of this paper was to assess the social demand for agricultural landscape aesthetics, considering both the levels of use and the willingness to contribute to its conservation. This was done while considering the existence of substitute landscapes and spatial effects. The flowering fruit trees in Cieza (SE-Spain) were used as a representative case study of semi-arid Mediterranean agricultural landscapes. A survey of 493 households was conducted, in which a contingent valuation exercise was implemented. The results demonstrated the availability of alternative spaces in the region and spatial effects, such as distance decay or distance increase, were factors that explain the diverse aspects of the social demand for the agricultural landscape. This justifies the suitability of carrying out this type of analysis of complete social demand as a preliminary step towards the formulation of more effective agricultural and land management measures to achieve social well-being.

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Watching nature through the window cannot be overlooked! Nexus between green window view, physical activity intention, and intensity among older adults

IF 7.9 1区环境科学与生态学 Q1 ECOLOGY

Landscape and Urban Planning

Pub Date : 2025-02-11 DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2025.105318

Yue Yin, Tianyu Xia, Ting Shu, Bing Zhao, Gexiang Zhang, Jinguang Zhang

Extensive studies have underscored the positive associations between various types of greenspace exposure and physical activity (PA); however, few studies have examined the beneficial effects of greenspaces viewed from windows on the PA of older adults. This study is the first to disentangle the association between green window views (GWV) and PA intensity and determine whether this association is mediated by PA intention. Using three-dimensional (3D) point-cloud data derived from Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) photogrammetry, we developed a set of 3D indicators to evaluate objective GWV across four dimensions: naturalness (window greening view ratio), diversity (window vegetation colour richness index), complexity (window vegetation complexity index), and coherence (window greening unity index). In addition, we collected perceived greenness as a subjective GWV metric. A total of 1,007 older adults from 40 residential communities in Nanjing, China were recruited to report their PA intention and intensity. A hierarchical linear model and multilevel mediation analysis were then employed to examine the associations between the GWV, PA intention, and PA intensity. The results suggest that the window greening view ratio was positively associated with PA intensity, while the window vegetation colour richness index showed a negative association. The window greening view ratio, window vegetation complexity index, window greening unity index, and perceived greenness are significantly associated with PA intention, which, in turn, may enhance PA intensity among older adults. Our findings shed light on how visible vegetation characteristics from windows may influence PA intensity among older adults and whether these associations can be partially mediated by PA intention, offering valuable insights for policy initiatives focused on health-oriented greenspace planning.

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Understanding the effect of built-up and green spaces upon air quality at multiple spatial scales: A systematic literature review

IF 7.9 1区环境科学与生态学 Q1 ECOLOGY

Landscape and Urban Planning

Pub Date : 2025-02-11 DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2025.105304

Chenling Wu , Ahmed Hazem Eldesoky , Eugenio Morello

Understanding how to design and plan built-up and green spaces in cities is essential for achieving optimal outdoor air quality. While several studies have investigated how different indicators of built-up and green spaces impact air quality across various spatial scales (macro, meso, and micro), the findings and evidence remain fragmented and largely inaccessible to urban designers, planners, and policymakers. To bridge this gap, we conducted a systematic literature review of 61 peer-reviewed publications to: (1) provide an overview of the literature addressing the impacts of built-up and green spaces on air quality, including key areas of investigation (emission, dispersion, deposition, exposure, etc.), the pollutants studied (particulates, gases), and the quantitative methods used (numerical, physical, and empirical models); (2) develop a taxonomy of built-up and green space indicators that influence air quality at different spatial scales, such as urban canyon aspect ratios, vegetation size, and land-use and land-cover compositions; and (3) synthesize quantitative evidence on how these indicators affect air quality (positively, negatively, insignificantly, or variously) across scales. The taxonomy and synthesized evidence offer actionable, evidence-based insights for urban planning, design, and policy to improve air quality at different spatial scales. Additionally, the review highlights several under-explored areas for future air quality research, such as the impact of vegetation configuration.

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Assessing recreationists’ preferences of the landscape and species using crowdsourced images and machine learning

IF 7.9 1区环境科学与生态学 Q1 ECOLOGY

Landscape and Urban Planning

Pub Date : 2025-02-09 DOI: 10.1016/j.landurbplan.2025.105315

Abdesslam Chai-allah , Johannes Hermes , Anne De La Foye , Zander S. Venter , Frédéric Joly , Gilles Brunschwig , Sandro Bimonte , Nathan Fox

Crowdsourced data are now well-established for assessing cultural ecosystem services (CES). In rural areas, understanding which land covers people prefer to recreate in, and how these land covers provide different CES, is necessary to support sustainable use. In this study, we aim to assess recreationists’ revealed preferences of landscape aesthetics and species observation as two CES, considering multiple land cover types in a rural area in France. This assessment was carried out using georeferenced images from two crowdsourced sources (Flickr and Wikiloc) and by analyzing their content using a machine-learning algorithm. We further developed a framework to classify images based on their content into CES-related images (those depicting landscapes or species) and non-CES-related images. Finally, we assessed how images depicting landscape aesthetics and species observation are distributed across the land covers visited by recreationists, and which species groups are the most photographed. Our results showed the dominance of images of open landscape views over close-up species images, and that grasslands are the primary providers of open views. In addition, we found that forests also provide open landscape views, suggesting that forests with gaps in canopy cover and viewpoints can be as important as grasslands in providing aesthetic views, especially in hilly landscapes. For species, the category “plants and flowers“ was the most photographed, followed by invertebrates and birds on Flickr, and domestic livestock on Wikiloc. This study provides insights into the importance of using multiple crowdsourced sources in CES assessment, providing critical insights for both landscape managers and conservationists.

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