G. Li,Y. Cao,C. Fang,S. Sun,W. Qi,Z. Wang,S. He,& Z. Yang, Global urban greening and its implication for urban heat mitigation, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci

Objective:

• Develop a global high-resolution enhanced vegetation index (EVI) to examine the spatiotemporal processes, influencing factors and implications of global urban vegetation change

Case:

• Global grid

Methodology:

• MGWR
• Inequality index

Data Source

• UCDB, GUB, NTL
• Temperature
• CO2
• Urbanization intensity

Findings:

• Areas that had already been urbanized in 1990, which mainly included urbancenters, were the core areas of vegetation change

• Urban vegetation greening showed large inequalities across different spatial scales

• Urbanization intensity played the dominant role in driving the vegetation borrowing trend; this phenomenon is more prevalent in urban fringe areas or regions with low urbanization intensity and rapid urbanization rate

• Areas with urban vegetation greening had larger mitigation effects on climate change than other areas

Coding Reference:

• STATA