Carbon emission reduction from the cooling effect of urban greenspace in the three urban agglomerations in China
Urban greenspace has the ability to cool the surrounding environment, thereby reducing energy consumption caused by the urban heat island effect and increasing the carbon savings. However, the underlying influential factors associated with these carbon savings have not been fully explored. This stud...
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Veröffentlicht in: | Regional environmental change 2023-12, Vol.23 (4), p.134-134, Article 134 |
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Zusammenfassung: | Urban greenspace has the ability to cool the surrounding environment, thereby reducing energy consumption caused by the urban heat island effect and increasing the carbon savings. However, the underlying influential factors associated with these carbon savings have not been fully explored. This study estimated the amount of carbon saving by the urban greenspace patches through the local cooling effect in 48 cities in the Yangtze-River-Delta agglomeration (YRD), Jing-Jin-Ji agglomerations (JJJ), and the Great Bay Area (GBA) and explored the factors with carbon saving across these cities. Results showed that a total amount of 353 × 10
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t of carbon was saved by the urban greenspace in these 48 cities, with an average of 7345 t of carbon saving per city. Carbon saved by the surrounding cooled areas (4542t, 3253 t, and 204 t of carbon saving by the surrounding cooled area for YTZ, JJJ, and GBA, respectively) was nearly similar to that by the urban greenspace patches themselves (5371 t, 3550 t, and 160 t of carbon saving by the urban greenspace patches themselves for YTZ, JJJ, and GBA, respectively). Differences were found in the carbon saving among the three urban agglomerations (
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ISSN: | 1436-3798 1436-378X |
DOI: | 10.1007/s10113-023-02128-w |