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Fire risk to structures in California's Wildland-Urban Interface.

Nature communications
The destructive impacts of wildfires on people, property and the environment have dramatically increased, especially in the Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) in California. In these areas structures are threatened by both approaching flames and lofted e...

Refining Air Pollution Exposure Estimates: A Comparison of Citywide and Neighborhood Land Use Regression Models in Toronto.

Environmental science & technology
Land use regression (LUR) models assess air pollution exposure but often struggle with transferability (predicting concentrations in areas without measurements) and generalizability (capturing spatial patterns across neighborhoods). This study evalua...

Applications of artificial intelligence and urban innovation performance: A quasi-natural experiment based on the pilot zones for the innovative application of artificial intelligence.

PloS one
Innovation is the core driving force behind the ability to cope with risks and enhance urban competitiveness. Against the backdrop of frequent global crises and intensified competition, improving urban innovation performance is important. This study ...

Analysis of spatiotemporal variation characteristics of atmospheric quality in China's city clusters from 2015 to 2023 and their socio-economic driving forces.

Journal of environmental management
With the rapid economic development in China, air quality issues have emerged as major challenges to the country's sustainable development. This study utilizes ground monitoring data from 1248 monitoring Stations across China, constructs a kilometer ...

The First Seasonal Green View Index Mapping Dataset across Chinese cities powered by deep learning.

Scientific data
Multi-temporal mapping of the Green View Index (GVI) is crucial for understanding how urban residents perceive seasonal changes in streetscape greenness. Compared to street view imagery (SVI), remote sensing data offers higher temporal frequency and ...

Government digital governance and urban green economic efficiency in China.

Journal of environmental management
Nowadays, widespread application and continuous advancement of digital technologies have made the digital governance become one of the dominant themes in the transformation of worldwide governments. This paper explores the impact of government digita...

Association between air pollution and type II diabetes in Italy from clinical data and population-weighted exposure at the municipality level.

Scientific reports
A growing body of literature supports the association between ambient particulate pollution and the risk of type 2 diabetes (T2DM). Both issues are particularly relevant in Italy. This study investigates the relationship between T2DM and exposure to ...

Finance fuels carbon cut? The carbon reduction effect of sci-tech financial policies: Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment.

Journal of environmental management
Based on panel data from 270 prefecture-level cities in China from 2006 to 2021, this paper employs the Pilot Programme to Promote the Integration of Science and Technology (S&T) Finance as a quasi-natural experiment. A difference-in-differences (DID...

Exploring the carbon rebound effect of agriculture and policy response: Lessons from zero growth of fertiliser action.

Environmental research
Agricultural technological progress is theoretically regarded as the core driving force to curb carbon emissions, but its possible rebound effect often leads to systematic offsetting of emission reduction. Based on the panel data of 267 cities in Chi...

Exploring the social life of urban spaces through AI.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
We analyze changes in pedestrian behavior over a 30-y period in four urban public spaces located in New York, Boston, and Philadelphia. Building on William Whyte's observational work, which involved manual video analysis of pedestrian behaviors, we e...