People, landscape, and urban heat island: dynamics among neighborhood social conditions, land cover and surface temperatures

Landscape Ecology

Volumn 31, Issue 10, 2016, Pages 2507-2515

  Huang, Ganlin ^a   Cadenasso, M L ^b  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Baltimore; Land cover; Land surface temperature; Neighborhood social condition; Structural equation modeling; Urban heat island

Indexed keywords

CENSUS; HEALTH IMPACT; HEAT ISLAND; LAND COVER; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; MITIGATION; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPATIAL VARIATION; SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

BALTIMORE; GWYNNS FALLS; MARYLAND; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84984818535     PISSN: 09212973     EISSN: 15729761     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10980-016-0437-z     Document Type: Article

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