npj Urban Sustainabilitynpj城市可持续性
npj Urban Sustainability(英文缩写 NPJ URBAN SUSTAIN),ISSN 2661-8001,eISSN 2661-8001,中文译名:npj城市可持续性 是一本学术期刊。本页汇总该期刊的最新影响因子、分区信息以及最新收录于 PubMed 的文献,帮助您快速了解期刊全貌。
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1. Building dense or compact cities without jeopardizing biodiversity: Insights from bird observations in Gothenburg, Sweden.
PMID:日期:2026-09-05A central challenge for sustainable urban development is balancing the trade-offs of high urban density. We examined whether biodiversity can be supported within dense or compact urban areas by analyzing bird species richness and composition across 30 sites in Gothenburg, Sweden, representing three urban form types (two compact and one dense) and reference areas with abundant vegetation. Results showed that species richness was significantly lower in the three urban form types than in the reference areas, and species composition differed significantly between the two groups. However, there were no significant differences in species richness or composition between the individual urban form types themselves. Across the three urban form types, nevertheless, sites with larger local natural habitat area and/or better connectivity to surrounding natural habitats had higher species richness, whereas variation in species composition was associated primarily with local habitat area. This highlights that increasing habitat area remains the most effective strategy for supporting avian diversity, even in dense or compact urban areas. Species that are less common in urban areas were also recorded at sites within the three urban form types where suitable conditions existed. These results not only suggest that biodiversity can exist within dense or compact urban areas but also that it can be supported through both site-level interventions and broader-scale planning for habitat connectivity.
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2. Sustained resilience as a unifying property of cities and the built environment.
PMID:日期:2026-08-25The built environment evolves, deteriorates and regenerates over time, yet resilience is commonly reduced to discrete event-based recovery while long-term performance is treated through sustainability. This separation obscures how resilience unfolds across lifecycles. We introduce sustained resilience as a unifying property that integrates resilience and sustainability, capturing the cumulative and adaptive capacity of the built environment and cities to maintain function, learn from disruption and evolve through successive cycles of change.
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3. Tree Value Visions - integrating relational values and multispecies justice in urban treescape management.
PMID:日期:2026-07-13Urban treescapes are important nature-based solutions for climate resilience, biodiversity, and human wellbeing, but their management often marginalizes relational values and multispecies justice. Tree Value Visions is a low-resource deliberative tool for inclusive, values-led urban treescape planning, grounded in the IPBES Life Framework. It facilitates community-driven visioning, linking storytelling to prioritization of outcomes and practical actions. Case studies suggest the tool can successfully foster synergies between human and ecological needs.
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4. Holistic fairness considerations in facility placement decisions.
PMID:日期:2026-06-15Network science metrics such as play a crucial role in solving facility placement problems, which in turn have important applications in guiding decision processes for municipalities or regions. Decision makers and planners are increasingly interested in addressing situations where demographics and socioeconomic status are distributed in a non-uniform way over a region. In those cases, optimizing centrality alone may result in disparate access. In this paper, as an illustrative case study, we use cluster analysis and publicly available demographic data to characterize census tracts in Spokane County, WA, USA across many socioeconomic variables. We then compare placement of existing facilities in Spokane using a novel fairness metric and network centrality, first separately and then in combination, to determine optimal facility placement. Our analysis found that undesirable facilities are not fairly placed, but some key desirable facilities such as hospitals and parks are ideally located based on both fairness and centrality. Our approach can easily be applied to any region where similar geographic and demographic data are available, and analyses are performed to inform facility siting, upgrades, or relocation.
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5. Blind spots and actionable insights for urban governance of the climate-biodiversity-health nexus.
PMID:日期:2026-02-09The critical nexus between biodiversity loss, climate change, and societal change is increasingly intertwined, requiring coordinated action, especially in urban contexts. This study examines how urban governance operationalizes the climate-biodiversity-health nexus in four European case cities through a goals-oriented framework informed by the Planetary Health approach. We conduct a qualitative analysis of urban policy documents to assess the degree of change and level of coordination across climate mitigation, adaptation, biodiversity, and health domains. While cities have employed transformative solutions like nature-based solutions (NBS), we consistently identify policy blind spots such as fragmented mid-level targets, sectoral silos, insufficient attention to indirect emissions, and reliance on soft governance tools. We conclude by offering actionable insights for transformative urban nexus governance: mainstream transformative metrics and indicators, create new institutional innovations, integrate multi-benefit NBS across sectors, expand governance toolkits to address trade-offs, and co-create a culture of innovation, learning, co-creation and leadership.
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6. Deciphering exterior: building energy efficiency prediction with emerging urban big data.
PMID:日期:2026-02-04In the UK, 28 million households consume 25% of the total energy and contribute to 25% of the carbon emissions. It is vital to focus on sustainability and energy efficiency within the building sector for decarbonizing purposes. However, traditional methods such as simulations or on-site inspections are time-consuming and labor-intensive. In this research, we propose a novel methodology framework for estimating building energy efficiency using only external and widely existing data. We have designed and trained an end-to-end multi-channel deep learning model utilizing high-resolution thermal infrared and optical remotely sensed images, street view images, socio-economic indicators, and building morphological data. Validated in Glasgow and Edinburgh, the model achieved F1 scores of 0.64 and 0.69. Further analyses surprisingly suggest that more deprived neighborhoods tend to have better building energy efficiency. The study highlights how widely available data and AI can provide scalable, global solutions for advancing the net-zero agenda.
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7. Greening mitigates heat-related mortality in Paris.
PMID:日期:2026-01-27Cities are vulnerable to heat-related health impacts due to the compounding effects of urban heat island (UHI) and rising temperatures because of climate change. Here we characterise the contextual factors exacerbating and attenuating the risk of mortality associated with high temperature in the city of Paris. Findings suggest that reducing urban heat and mitigating UHI through urban greening should be at the forefront of adaptation strategies to prevent heat-related health impacts in cities.
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8. Whose city is it? Mapping perceived urban livability with citizen-guided AI.
PMID:日期:2026-01-08Urban livability is shaped by dominant values, often economic or aesthetic, and power dynamics that often overlook the lived experiences of deprived urban area (DUA) residents. As a result, conventional livability indicators risk reinforcing existing inequalities unless these are grounded in inclusive and participatory approaches. To address this issue, we developed lightweight deep learning models - 'AI-voters' - trained on livability preferences from both DUA residents and city planners, using open-source satellite imagery. Applied in Ghana's Greater Accra Metropolitan Area, our approach reduced data requirements to map urban livability by 90% through a two-step urban form sampling strategy that enabled scalable participatory mapping. Training separate 'AI-voters' for planners and DUA residents revealed systematic differences: planners not only disagree among themselves but also consistently assign higher livability scores and overlook the preferences of DUA residents, such as avoiding coastal area exposure. The AI-voters mirrored human-voter behavior based on physical urban features such as greenery and building density, especially when trained on the preferences of DUA residents, demonstrating their potential as scalable proxies for local insights. These results highlight the importance of integrating community perspectives into AI models trained to map urban livability to expose hidden spatial inequities and promote more inclusive urban development.
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9. The material stock needed to reduce disparity in access to basic services: a case study of India, across spatial scales.
PMID:日期:2025-11-21The relationship between built environment stocks and living standards is critical to sustainable development. Yet the coupling of environmental impacts and human development outcomes warrants greater consideration. Here, we assess development outcomes associated with built environment services and quantify their relationship to the material composition of such services, across scales, for the first time, using India as a topical testbed. The multiscale model we present reveals that the provision of built environment services remains a challenge within India, with varying heterogeneity across spatial scales of intervention. This highlights the need for assessment across these scales to identify the most suitable intervention points. We show that brick and concrete stocks have grown in conjunction with development outcomes. Building on this, we estimate that upgrading inadequate housing would require between 2.2 and 5.3 Gt of material, which represents approximately 0.5% of the global carbon budget remaining to stay within 1.5° of warming.
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10. Rethinking trade-offs in nature-based solutions from a multispecies justice perspective.
PMID:日期:2025-08-18Trade-offs in nature-based solutions are increasingly recognized, with novel research interrogating their justice implications. Yet, these trade-offs and justice implications remain entrenched in an anthropocentric orientation, which is problematic in ecological and ethical terms. We discuss four common assumptions on trade-offs in NBS (instrumentalism, neutrality of science, collaborative consensus, and unitemporality) and rethink them through a multispecies justice lens, maintaining that dealing with trade-offs is a form of interspecies politics.