Wu, S., Chen, B., Webster, C. et al. Improved human greenspace exposure equality during 21st century urbanization. Nat Commun

Objective:

• Generate a global urban greenspace dataset for 1028 large cities

Case:

• Global cities

Methodology:

• Population-weighted exposure
• Gini

Data Source

• Global urban boundaries
• Greenspace: Landsat
• WorldPop
• NDVI

Findings:

• Global north cities show a prominently increasing trend in greenspace coverage, including EU, North American, Russia, Austrilia and a few cities of East Asia.

• Global south cities have a decreasing trend

• Human exposure to greenspace shows contrasting temporal change trends between global north and global south cities

• Greenspace exposure inequality has dominantly promoted the improvement

Coding Reference:

• R