Health and climate related ecosystem services provided by street trees in the urban environment

Environmental Health: A Global Access Science Source

Volumn 15, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Salmond, Jennifer A ^a   Tadaki, Marc ^b   Vardoulakis, Sotiris ^c,d,e   Arbuthnott, Katherine ^c,e   Coutts, Andrew ^f,g   Demuzere, Matthias ^f,g,h   Dirks, Kim N ^a   Heaviside, Clare ^c,e   Lim, Shanon ^a   MacIntyre, Helen ^c   McInnes, Rachel N ^d,i   Wheeler, Benedict W ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c Public Health England   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EXETER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^e LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^f MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^g Cooperative Research Centre for Water Sensitive Cities ^*

^h UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

ⁱ MET OFFICE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Climate; Ecosystems services; Health impacts; Street trees

Indexed keywords

VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DECISION MAKING; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; GREENSPACE; HEALTH IMPACT; HEALTH SERVICES; HOLISTIC APPROACH; PUBLIC HEALTH; SUSTAINABILITY; TRADE-OFF; TREE PLANTING; URBAN AREA; URBAN PLANNING; VEGETATION DYNAMICS;

AIR QUALITY; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; ATMOSPHERIC DISPERSION; CITY PLANNING; CLIMATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CULTURAL FACTOR; CULTURAL VALUE; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; MICROCLIMATE; NOISE REDUCTION; POLLEN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVIEW; TREE; URBAN AREA; VEGETATION; WELLBEING; AIR POLLUTION; CITY; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; PUBLIC HEALTH; URBAN HEALTH;

AIR POLLUTION; CITIES; CITY PLANNING; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; HUMANS; PUBLIC HEALTH; TREES; URBAN HEALTH;

EID: 84995543025     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1476069X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12940-016-0103-6     Document Type: Review

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