Article
Environmental Sciences
Maya Sadeh, Michael Brauer, Rachel Dankner, Nir Fulman, Alexandra Chudnovsky
Summary: This study compared the precision of NDVI, SAVI and LSU for quantifying residential greenness in areas with high spatial heterogeneity in vegetation cover. LSU outperformed NDVI in accuracy and variability, especially in dense urban areas, potentially improving exposure assessment precision and reducing exposure misclassification.
ENVIRONMENT INTERNATIONAL
(2021)
Article
Plant Sciences
Weeberb J. Requia, Claudia Costa Saenger, Rejane Ennes Cicerelli, Lucijane Monteiro de Abreu, Vanessa R. N. Cruvinel
Summary: This study investigates the association between greenness and academic performance at the school-level in Brazil. The results show a positive correlation between green areas surrounding schools and math academic performance, suggesting that improving the environment around schools can promote public health.
URBAN FORESTRY & URBAN GREENING
(2022)
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Ting Liu, Ben Cai, Wenjia Peng, Liping Xiao, Hengyuan Shi, Xuesen Wu, Huaiquan Gao, Xianjie Jia
Summary: Living in neighborhoods with more greenness is associated with a lower incidence of cardiovascular diseases, and a significant relationship exists between greenness and lipid accumulation product and pulse pressure. Higher residential greenness is more strongly linked with CVDs among male and higher-income individuals, with road proximity partially mediating the association between greenness and pulse pressure.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HYGIENE AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH
(2021)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Inass Kayyal-Tarabeia, Yaron Michael, Itamar M. Lensky, Michael Blank, Keren Agay-Shay
Summary: This registry-based cohort study evaluated the associations between cumulative residential greenness exposure and specific-site cancer incidence. The study found that residential greenness may reduce the risk for lung, bladder, breast, prostate, and skin cancers.
ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH
(2022)
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Xiaoqing Li, Qinjian Wang, Chuanteng Feng, Bin Yu, Xi Lin, Yao Fu, Shu Dong, Ge Qiu, Darren Ho Aik, Yanrong Yin, Pincang Xia, Shaofen Huang, Nian Liu, Xiuquan Lin, Yefa Zhang, Xin Fang, Wenling Zhong, Peng Jia, Shujuan Yang
Summary: Exposure to residential greenness is associated with a decreased risk for metabolic syndrome (MetS). Age, gender, education level, marital status, occupation, and smoking status influence this association. Physical activity, body mass index, and air pollutants account for nearly half of the mediation effects on the greenness-MetS association.
FRONTIERS IN PUBLIC HEALTH
(2022)
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Ofir Avizemel, Sigal Frishman, Yishay Pinto, Yaron Michael, Sondra Turjeman, Kinneret Tenenbaum-Gavish, Or Yariv, Yoav Peled, Eran Poran, Joseph Pardo, Rony Chen, Moshe Hod, Betty Schwartz, Eran Hadar, Omry Koren, Keren Agay-Shay
Summary: This study examined the associations between residential greenness and blood glucose levels and gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) in pregnant women, and explored the potential mediating role of gut microbiome diversity. The results showed that although the associations with GDM risk were not statistically significant, pregnant women living in areas with medium levels of greenness had a lower likelihood of developing GDM. There was also no significant mediation effect of gut microbiome diversity on the associations between greenness and GDM. Further studies in larger populations are needed to investigate these associations.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HYGIENE AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH
(2023)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Manuela Tondelli, Annalisa Chiari, Giulia Vinceti, Chiara Galli, Simone Salemme, Tommaso Filippini, Chiara Carbone, Claudia Minafra, Claudia De Luca, Riccardo Prandi, Simona Tondelli, Giovanna Zamboni
Summary: This study explores the relationship between greenness and neuropsychiatric symptoms in individuals with dementia. The findings suggest that green environments may have an impact on the mental well-being of people with dementia.
ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH
(2024)
Review
Environmental Sciences
Nv-Wei Cao, Hao-Yue Zhou, Yu-Jie Du, Xian-Bao Li, Xiu-Jie Chu, Bao-Zhu Li
Summary: This study aimed to determine the association between greenness and allergic rhinitis (AR) in children and adolescents through systematic review and meta-analysis. The overall effect of greenness on AR was not significant. Various exposure measures and data conversion may affect the results of this analysis. Future well-designed prospective studies are needed for a more precise assessment of greenness exposure.
SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
(2023)
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Paige Brochu, Marcia P. Jimenez, Peter James, Patrick L. Kinney, Kevin Lane
Summary: Cities in the United States are creating sustainability and climate action plans to increase local vegetation, which has the potential to benefit both the environment and human health. This study conducted a nationwide assessment and found that increasing greenness can reduce mortality in the largest urban areas. The results can be used to support the development of policies by urban planners and local governments to calculate the co-benefits of local initiatives and improve public health.
FRONTIERS IN PUBLIC HEALTH
(2022)
Article
Geochemistry & Geophysics
Xin Tian, Mengliang Zhang, Changcai Yang, Jiayi Ma
Summary: This study investigates a novel computational fusion approach for obtaining high-resolution NDVI in remote sensing. By fusing low-resolution NDVI and high-resolution red band, the proposed method overcomes the issue of inaccurate spatial information introduced by pansharpening, demonstrating superior fusion performance in remote sensing applications.
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING
(2021)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Ilknur Zeren Cetin, Tugrul Varol, Halil Baris Ozel, Hakan Sevik
Summary: Economic and industrial development have led to population concentration in cities, resulting in the urban heat island effect. This study analyzed the changes in the urban heat island effect in the central district of Bartin over the past 30 years and found increases in urban surfaces and land surface temperatures, as well as a decline in vegetation. The results emphasized the importance of increasing open and green areas to mitigate the negative effects of the urban heat island.
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH
(2023)
Article
Geography, Physical
Hitoshi Saito, Shoichiro Uchiyama, Koki Teshirogi
Summary: Vegetation cover plays a crucial role in the stability of hillslopes and their susceptibility to landsli-des. This study examines vegetation recovery in landslide scars caused by rainfall and earthquakes at Aso volcano in Japan. Using satellite and UAV images, the research focuses on temporal changes and topographic effects on vegetation recovery, with results showing rapid recovery of grass vegetation in certain slope aspect directions.
Review
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Mingcheng Tang, Wei Liu, Haifang Li, Fengyi Li
Summary: There is an association between greenness exposure and chronic respiratory health issues. Greenness exposure is negatively correlated with asthma incidence, lung cancer incidence, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) mortality risk. Subgroup analysis by age and buffer zones shows that higher greenness exposure level is negatively associated with asthma incidence among teenagers aged 13-18 years, and positively associated with asthma incidence/prevalence at 200-300m and 800-1000m buffers, as well as COPD mortality at 800-1000m buffer.
FRONTIERS IN PUBLIC HEALTH
(2023)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Yi-Dan Zhang, Shu-Jun Fan, Zheng Zhang, Jia-Xin Li, Xiao-Xuan Liu, Li-Xin Hu, Luke D. Knibbs, Payam Dadvand, Bin Jalaludin, Matthew H. E. M. Browning, Tianyu Zhao, Joachim Heinrich, Zhini He, Cheng-Zhi Chen, Yuanzhong Zhou, Guang-Hui Dong, Bo-Yi Yang
Summary: This study aimed to investigate the association between residential greenness exposure and human microbial diversity and composition. The results showed that higher levels of greenness were associated with increased richness levels in the palm and gut microbiota, but decreased evenness in the gut microbiota. In addition, the composition and genus abundance of the microbiota varied by greenness. These findings suggest a link between residential greenness and microbial richness and composition in human samples.
ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH PERSPECTIVES
(2023)
Article
Agronomy
Ewa Panek, Dariusz Gozdowski
Summary: This study analyzed the relationships between NDVI and grain yield in 20 European countries, finding strong correlations in Croatia, Czechia, Germany, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, and Slovakia, allowing for early yield prediction. Weak relationships were observed in France and Belgium.
Article
Economics
Nicolas C. Bronfman, Raquel B. Jimenez, Pilar C. Arevalo, Luis A. Cifuentes
Article
Engineering, Environmental
Pamela C. Cisternas, Nicolas C. Bronfman, Raquel B. Jimenez, Luis A. Cifuentes, Cristobal De La Maza
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
(2014)
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Matthew Bozigar, Catherine L. Connolly, Aaron Legler, William G. Adams, Chad W. Milando, David B. Reynolds, Fei Carnes, Raquel B. Jimenez, Komal Peer, Kimberly Vermeer, Jonathan Levy, Maria Patricia Fabian
Summary: This study used machine learning and causal inference methods to detail in-home environmental exposures (IHEE) among children with asthma using electronic health records (EHR) and geospatial data. The study found that larger average household sizes in census tracts were associated with more reports of pests (cockroaches and rodents), tax-exempt parcels were associated with more reports of cockroaches in homes, living in a White-segregated neighborhood was linked with lower reported rodent presence, and mixed residential/commercial housing and newer buildings were associated with more reports of bedroom carpeting/rugs.
ANNALS OF EPIDEMIOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Estela Blanco, Francisco Rubilar, Maria Elisa Quinteros, Karen Cayupi, Salvador Ayala, Siyao Lu, Raquel B. Jimenez, Carola A. Blazquez, Juana Maria Delgado-Saborit, Roy M. Harrison, Pablo Ruiz-Rudolph, Juan Pablo Cardenas
Summary: In Temuco, a medium-sized city in Chile, residential wood-burning in winter causes severe air pollution. Through mobile measurements, the distribution of particulate matter during winter nights was spatially characterized. Variations in PM concentrations among neighborhoods suggest the importance of targeted interventions for air pollution mitigation.
ATMOSPHERIC ENVIRONMENT
(2022)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Koen F. Tieskens, Ian A. Smith, Raquel B. Jimenez, Lucy R. Hutyra, M. Patricia Fabian
Summary: This study provides a novel method for assessing the heat mitigation impacts of greenspace. They integrate the ecosystem services framework into environmental health research and use state-of-the-art ecological modeling methods to analyze the supply and demand of cooling ecosystem services. They identify areas of demand-supply mismatch and highlight the importance of prioritizing greenspace interventions based on heat-related demand.
SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
(2022)
Article
Environmental Studies
Nicolas C. Bronfman, Raquel B. Jimenez, Pilar C. Arevalo, Luis A. Cifuentes
ENERGY & ENVIRONMENT
(2015)
Article
Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary
Raquel Beatriz Jimenez, Nicolas Caceres Bronfman
JOURNAL OF RISK RESEARCH
(2012)