COVID-19 infection rate but not severity is associated with availability of greenness in the United States

Lin, Jian; Huang, Bo; Kwan, Mei‐Po; Chen, Min; Wang, Qiang

doi:10.1016/j.landurbplan.2023.104704

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“…In the current study, we propose that greenness, measured as the quantity of available terrestrial vegetation in a given area, would be linked to COVID-19 infection and severity rates [15][16][17][18]. This expectation is grounded on several services that greenness provides to humans.…”

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confidence: 93%

“…Also, recent studies quantified the link between greenness and COVID-19 infection in the USA and showed that an increase in NDVI (Normalized Difference Vegetation Index) by 0.1 yielded a decrease in COVID-19 infection rate by 6% [23], or a decrease by 4.1% specifically in the USA urban areas [16]. Interestingly, Russette et al [25] reported a noticeable reduction in COVID-19-induced mortality rate in greener regions of the USA (see also [17,18]).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…This expectation is grounded on several services that greenness provides to humans. Firstly, as COVID-19 largely affects the human respiratory system, leading to a poor oxygen provision to the body, the ecosystem services provided by greenness [19,20], particularly, air purification and massive O 2 production through photosynthesis, alongside boosted immune systems [21], are expected to maximise the resilience of communities in greener neighbourhoods against COVID-19 infection [16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23] and its severity ( [16,24,25]; but see [17]). Secondly, recent studies reported that exposure to high levels of air pollution is linked to developmental defects in new-born babies, and these defects increase the risk of abnormal respiratory functions and cardiovascular diseases, which are some of the major comorbidities that magnify COVID-19 impacts [26].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Although evidence of positive effects of greenness on human health conditions in general is abundant, we know little about the efficacy of its benefits to humans in the context of the ongoing deadly COVID-19 pandemic. Also, what we know today originates mostly from one country [18], the United States of America (USA, [16,17,23,25,30]). For example, Jiang et al [22] reported that forested neighbourhoods in the USA exhibit lower COVID-19 infection rates, but more so in forested areas outside parks.…”

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Greener Neighbourhoods Show Resilience to the Spread but Not Severity of COVID-19 Infection in South Africa

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2023

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The outbreak of COVID-19 quickly spread around the globe, with staggering infection and mortality rates. Given the reported benefits of greenness to human health, we hypothesized that greener neighbourhoods would suffer less from COVID-19 infection and severity than not. We modelled COVID-19 infection and severity in South Africa by fitting Generalized Linear Mixed Effects models to various socio-demographic and greenness data (EVI, i.e., Enhanced Vegetation Index, and tree and grass covers) collected from January 2020 to June 2022 at local municipalities, Wards, and districts scales. We found that income level showed a significant negative association with COVID-19 prevalence at the Ward level, suggesting that poorer neighbourhoods are more susceptible to COVID-19 infection. We also found that EVI and tree cover consistently showed a significant negative correlation with COVID-19 infection rate, irrespective of the scale of analysis, whereas grass cover showed a similar pattern but only at the Ward scale. Finally, we found that neither EVI, grass cover, nor tree cover showed a significant association with COVID-19 severity. Overall, greener neighbourhoods show greater resilience to the spread of COVID-19, suggesting that exposure to greenness may boost natural killer cells in the human body, thus reinvigorating our defence system against infections. Our results re-enforced the need to establish and preserve greens paces particularly in the developing world, given their ability to buffer the spread of COVID-19.

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2023

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“…[4]The Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) provides information on the linkages between biodiversity, ecosystem services and human well-being. [5]…”

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Carbon Sink Trading Platform Mechanism of PPP Mode of Landscape Architecture Project Based on Carbon Neutralization Concept

Jyh-Harng

2024

E3S Web of Conf.

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In the context of globalization and environmental changes caused by climate change, countries have been actively investing in promoting carbon reduction systems. Currently, under the dual carbon policy, achieving carbon neutrality and carbon compliance require different strategies. Among them, for the carbon neutrality goal, the carbon sink function of landscape architecture plays a very important role in the carbon trading platform with the introduction of the PPP model. In this study, the relationship between carbon sink and enterprise carbon trading of PPP mode landscape architecture project. It is found that the carbon trading platform plays a key role in the landscape architecture carbon sink project, reduces greenhouse gas emissions through market-based means, achieves the transaction of carbon emission rights and enterprise investment, and at the same time, for landscape architects, helping achieve carbon neutrality is a very important and urgent responsibility and mission.

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Changes of Grocery Shopping Frequencies and Associations with Food Deserts during the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United States

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Kim,

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J Urban Health

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COVID-19 infection rate but not severity is associated with availability of greenness in the United States

Cited by 6 publications

References 59 publications

Greener Neighbourhoods Show Resilience to the Spread but Not Severity of COVID-19 Infection in South Africa

Greener Neighbourhoods Show Resilience to the Spread but Not Severity of COVID-19 Infection in South Africa

Carbon Sink Trading Platform Mechanism of PPP Mode of Landscape Architecture Project Based on Carbon Neutralization Concept

Changes of Grocery Shopping Frequencies and Associations with Food Deserts during the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United States

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