Species-Specific Information for Enhancing Ecosystem Services

Samson, Roeland; Ningal, Tine; Tiwary, Abhishek; Grote, Rüdiger; Fares, Silvano; Saaroni, Hadas; Hiemstra, J.A.; Zhiyanski, Miglena; Vilhar, Urša; Cariñanos, Paloma; Järvi, Leena; Przybysz, Arkadiusz; Moretti, Marco; Zürcher, Naomi

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-50280-9_12

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“…BVOCs should be considered a potential risk factor in any discussion of links between trees, air pollution, and asthma; as well as other air quality related health problems . This is all the more relevant as some three-quarters of common or potential urban tree species in Europe have been identified to have moderate or high BVOC emissions (Samson, Ningal, et al, 2017); the same may be true elsewhere. Landscape planning and design implications are discussed in Section 4.2.…”

Section: Bvoc Emissions O 3 Production and O 3 Uptake: Summarymentioning

confidence: 98%

“…In Denmark, for example, urban areas are a significant source of birch pollen (Skjøth et al, 2008); and in the country's second largest city, the municipal council of Aarhus has halted the planting of birch trees in public places, as the species is a major culprit in provoking allergic reactions (BBC, 2015). According to one study, roughly 50% of common or potential urban tree species in Europe have moderate or high pollen allergenicity (Samson, Ningal, et al, 2017). A substantial review has, in turn, identified eight prominent causes for the increased pollen allergen load by urban plants, especially trees.…”

Section: Pollen Production and Synergistic Links With Air Pollutionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Infrequently, recommendations also include planting trees with low pollen allergenicity (e.g., Seitz & Escobedo, 2009). For additional guidance, see Samson, Ningal et al (2017), which identifies the pollen allergenicity of 150 common or potential urban tree species in Europe. See also The Allergy- , which ranks on a 1-10 scale the allergenicity of over 3,000 plants.…”

Section: Urban Tree Planting For Low Pollen Allergenicitymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Urban trees, air quality, and asthma: An interdisciplinary review

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Landscape and Urban Planning

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A "call to action" has been issued for scholars in landscape and urban planning, natural science, and public health to conduct interdisciplinary research on the human health effects of spending time in or near greenspaces. This is timely in light of contemporary interest in municipal tree planting and urban greening, defined as organized or semi-organized efforts to introduce, conserve, or maintain outdoor vegetation in urban areas. In response to injunctions from scholars and urban greening trends, this article provides an interdisciplinary review on urban trees, air quality, and asthma. We assess the scientific literature by reviewing refereed review papers and empirical studies on the biophysical processes through which urban trees affect air quality, as well as associated models that extend estimates to asthma outcomes. We then review empirical evidence of observed links between urban trees and asthma, followed by a discussion on implications for urban landscape planning and design. This review finds no scientific consensus that urban trees reduce asthma by improving air quality. In some circumstances, urban trees can degrade air quality and increase asthma. Causal pathways between urban trees, air quality, and asthma are very complex, and there are substantial differences in how natural science and epidemiology approach this issue. This may lead to ambiguity in scholarship, municipal decision-making, and landscape planning. Future research on this topic, as well as on urban ecosystem services and urban greening, should embrace epistemological and etiological pluralism and be conducted through interdisciplinary teamwork.

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Section: Bvoc Emissions O 3 Production and O 3 Uptake: Summarymentioning

confidence: 98%

Section: Pollen Production and Synergistic Links With Air Pollutionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Urban Tree Planting For Low Pollen Allergenicitymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Urban trees, air quality, and asthma: An interdisciplinary review

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“…In these reports, it is argued that to achieve environmental and economic resilience; biodiversity needs to be reinstated in urbanised areas (UN Habitat 2012). One of the major co-benefits of urban agriculture lies in its contribution to the urban environment, green infrastructure and the related ecosystem services (Viljoen et al 2005;Santo et al 2016;McEldowney 2017;Samson et al 2017;Golden & Hoghooghi 2018;Piorr et al 2018). Green infrastructure is a significant element in European planning policies on all scale levels.…”

Section: Relationship Between Urban Agriculture and Green Infrastructurementioning

confidence: 99%

Urban agriculture as a keystone contribution towards securing sustainable and healthy development for cities in the future

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Research and practice during the last 20 years has shown that urban agriculture can contribute to minimising the effects of climate change by, at the same time, improving quality of life in urban areas. In order to do so most effectively, land use and spatial planning are crucial so as to obtain and maintain a supportive green infrastructure and to secure citizens' healthy living conditions. As people today trend more towards living in green and sustainable city centres that can offer fresh and locally produced food, cities become again places for growing food. The scope of urban agriculture thereby is to establish food production sites within the city's sphere; for example, through building-integrated agriculture including concepts such as aquaponics, indoor agriculture, vertical farming, rooftop production, edible walls, as well as through urban farms, edible landscapes, school gardens and community gardens. Embedded in changing urban food systems, the contribution of urban agriculture to creating sustainable and climate-friendly cities is pivotal as it has the capacity to integrate other resource streams such as water, waste and energy. This article describes some of the current aspects of the circular city debate where urban agriculture is pushing forward the development of material and resource cycling in cities.

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“…The environmental conditions and the frequency of these different vegetation types, and thus species community composition, differs largely along rural-urban gradients as discussed below (section The Rural-Urban Gradient in Context of Tree-Ozone Interactions). However, despite an overall high number of species available for planning, only relatively few tree genera and species are highly abundant in streets and parks of northern and central European cities (Grote et al, 2016;Samson et al, 2017b). Common urban species in central to northern Europe are in particular: Tilia sp., Platanus sp., Aesculus sp., Fraxinus sp., Quercus sp., Acer sp., Picea abies, and Pinus sp.…”

Section: Community Compositionmentioning

confidence: 99%