Street trees provide an opportunity to mitigate urban heat and reduce risk of high heat exposure.

ABSTRACT: Climate change is exacerbating the need for urban greening and the associated environmental and human well-being benefits. Trees can help mitigate urban heat, but more detailed understanding of cooling effects of green infrastructure are needed to guide management decisions and deploy trees as effective and equitable climate adaptation infrastructure. We investigated how urban trees affect summer air temperature along sidewalks within a neighborhood of Tacoma, Washington, USA, and to what extent urban trees reduce risks of high summer temperatures (i.e., the levels regulated by state outdoor heat exposure rules intended to reduce heat-related illnesses). Air temperature varied by 2.57 °C, on average, across our study area, and the probability of daytime temperatures exceeding regulated hig

SUBMITTER: Ettinger AK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10864265 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature