Green growth? On the relation between population density, land use and vegetation cover fractions in a city using a 30-years Landsat time series

Wellmann, Thilo; Schug, Franz; Haase, Dagmar; Pflugmacher, Dirk; Linden, Sebastian van der

doi:10.1016/j.landurbplan.2020.103857

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“…On the other hand, vacant lots have become sites for community gardens and other intentional urban greening activities [49,50]. However, vegetative cover increase can occur in both shrinking and growing contexts [51]. Recent research has also pointed to legacies from past discriminatory housing practices on present-day UTC.…”

Section: Urban Greening In Post-industrial Citiesmentioning

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Linking Urban Tree Cover Change and Local History in a Post-Industrial City

Roman

Catton

Greenfield

et al. 2021

Land

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Municipal leaders are pursuing ambitious goals to increase urban tree canopy (UTC), but there is little understanding of the pace and socioecological drivers of UTC change. We analyzed land cover change in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (United States) from 1970–2010 to examine the impacts of post-industrial processes on UTC. We interpreted land cover classes using aerial imagery and assessed historical context using archival newspapers, agency reports, and local historical scholarship. There was a citywide UTC increase of +4.3 percentage points. Substantial UTC gains occurred in protected open spaces related to both purposeful planting and unintentional forest emergence due to lack of maintenance, with the latter phenomenon well-documented in other cities located in forested biomes. Compared to developed lands, UTC was more persistent in protected open spaces. Some neighborhoods experienced substantial UTC gains, including quasi-suburban areas and depopulated low-income communities; the latter also experienced decreasing building cover. We identified key processes that drove UTC increases, and which imposed legacies on current UTC patterns: urban renewal, urban greening initiatives, quasi-suburban developments, and (dis)investments in parks. Our study demonstrates the socioecological dynamism of intra-city land cover changes at multi-decadal time scales and the crucial role of local historical context in the interpretation of UTC change.

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Section: Urban Greening In Post-industrial Citiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Linking Urban Tree Cover Change and Local History in a Post-Industrial City

Roman

Catton

Greenfield

et al. 2021

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“…Green growth is a wonderful slogan, and the notion of green growth has undergone a remarkable development in recent years, and it has recently been attracted much attention by various previous studies (Hickel & Kallis, 2020; Tong, Ding, Wang, & Yang, 2020; Wellmann, Schug, Haase, Pflugmacher, & van der Linden, 2020). Based on the reports released by the Organization for Economic Co‐operation and Development (OECD), the strategic notion of green growth is capable of bringing coherence and harmony to the prevailing priorities taken into account by economic and environmental policymakers.…”

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Evaluating the green growth indicators to achieve sustainable development: A novel extended interval‐valued intuitionistic fuzzy‐combined compromise solution approach

Alrasheedi

Mardani

Mishra³

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Sustainable Development

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Recent years have witnessed the green growth as a renowned efficient approach to tracking the progress towards sustainable development. The paper is mainly aimed to propose an innovative extended approach based on Combined Compromise Solution (CoCoSo) and Interval‐Valued Intuitionistic Fuzzy Set (IVIFS); thus, it is called IVIF Combined Compromise Solution (IVIF‐CoCoSo). This study is the first effort that used the fuzzy sets theory and decision‐making technique (entitled IVIF‐CoCoSo) to rank and evaluate the indicators of green growth to sustainable manufacturing in the manufacturing sector. To reach the study objectives, a total of five indicators and 30 sub‐indicators for evaluation of green growth are collected from the existing literature review. Subsequently, this study has been extended using the IVIF‐CoCoSo approach for ranking, modeling, and evaluating the green growth indicators into sustainable manufacturing based on experts' opinions. The results of this study showed that the environmental and resource productivity of the economy indicators is more significant than the other indicators in the manufacturing sector. Moreover, findings confirmed the accuracy of the proposed method in solving the green growth problem, and comparison was also made between the results of the proposed method and some other Multi‐Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) methods.

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“…By implication, land-use change in the EU15 developed countries increase as they expand the development of rural areas. On the other hand, a previous study by Wellmann, et al [57] suggests that green growth identify the relation between population density, land use, and vegetation such as the case study city Berlin, Germany, which developed into a city that is both gaining in vegetation (greening) and population (growing) in recent years. Pathways to achieve a greening and growing scenario in a compact city include green roofs, brownfield, and industrial revitalization, and bioswales in predominantly green city districts.…”

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Land-Use Change Impacts from Sustainable Hydropower Production in EU28 Region: An Empirical Analysis

2021

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Under the current European Union (EU) constitution approved in May 2018, EU countries ought to guarantee that estimated greenhouse-gas releases from land use, land-use change, or forestry are entirely compensated by an equivalent accounted removal of carbon dioxide (CO2) from the air during the period between 2021 and 2030. This study investigates the effect of sustainable hydropower production on land-use change in the European Union (EU28) region countries during 1990–2018, using the fully modified ordinary least squares (FMOLS). The results revealed that land-use change incline with an increase in hydropower energy production. In addition, economic growth, carbon dioxide emissions, and population density are found to be increasing land-use changes, while institutional quality is found to be decreasing land-use change significantly. The finding implies that land-use change in EU28 region countries can be significantly increased by mounting the amount of hydropower energy production to achieve Energy Union aims by 2030. This will finally be spread to combat climate change and environmental pollution. The findings are considered robust as they were checked with DOLS and pooled OLS. The research suggests that the EU28 countries pay attention to the share of hydropower in their renewable energy combination to minimize carbon releases. Politicians and investors in the EU28 region ought to invest further in the efficiency and sustainability of hydropower generation to increase its production and accessibility without further degradation of forest and agricultural conditions. The authorities of the EU28 region should emphasize on efficiency and sustainability of hydropower energy with land-use management to achieve the international commitments for climate, biodiversity, and sustainable development, reduce dependence on fossil fuel, and energy insecurity.

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Green growth? On the relation between population density, land use and vegetation cover fractions in a city using a 30-years Landsat time series

Cited by 64 publications

References 42 publications

Linking Urban Tree Cover Change and Local History in a Post-Industrial City

Linking Urban Tree Cover Change and Local History in a Post-Industrial City

Evaluating the green growth indicators to achieve sustainable development: A novel extended interval‐valued intuitionistic fuzzy‐combined compromise solution approach

Land-Use Change Impacts from Sustainable Hydropower Production in EU28 Region: An Empirical Analysis

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