Monitoring the Effect of Urban Green Space on Environmental Quality
A special issue of Land (ISSN 2073-445X). This special issue belongs to the section "Urban Contexts and Urban-Rural Interactions".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 16 June 2025 | Viewed by 119
Special Issue Editors
Interests: environmental simulation; computational geometry; remote sensing
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Interests: building environment; urban heat islands; building energy savings; building surface coating materials; solar radiation; air-conditioning heat loads; weather database
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Urban green spaces are critical for maintaining the environmental quality in cities, offering essential benefits such as mitigating urban heat islands, enhancing thermal comfort, providing urban cooling, reducing noise pollution, and improving air quality, among others. As urbanization accelerates and the effects of climate change become more pronounced, understanding the contributions of green spaces is vital for creating sustainable and resilient urban environments. Monitoring and evaluating these effects require innovative approaches, including computational models, field studies, spatio-temporal analysis, and advanced sensor technologies. Such knowledge will enable urban planners, environmental scientists, and policymakers to design and manage green spaces more effectively, addressing current challenges and reducing environmental impact.
The goal of this Special Issue is to collect original research articles and reviews that focus on the monitoring techniques for evaluating the effects of urban green spaces on environmental quality. By concentrating on state-of-the-art methods and tools, we aim to provide valuable insights for assessing the role of green spaces and optimizing their use for sustainable urban development.
This Special Issue will welcome manuscripts that include, but are not limited to, the following themes:
- Advanced Monitoring of Urban Heat Island Mapping and Mitigation;
- Monitoring Thermal Comfort and Cooling Effects of Urban Green Spaces;
- Remote Sensing and GIS Applications in Green Space Monitoring;
- Monitoring Green Spaces with Sensor Networks and IoT;
- Quantitative Monitoring of Environmental Effects of Urban Vegetation.
We look forward to receiving your original research articles and reviews.
Dr. Marko Bizjak
Dr. Jihui Yuan
Dr. David Jesenko
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- green spaces
- urban vegetation
- monitoring
- environmental quality
- urban heat island
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