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Urban Green Space and Health

Last updated July 15, 2026

Rising Stars

Fresh ink, massive impact

Researchers

1
Muhammad Umair Shafique
Army Medical College
2
Muhammad Faizan Farooq
Unknown
3
Arianna Latini
Marche Polytechnic University
4
Gao Li-na
Nantong University
5
Silviya Korpilo
University of Helsinki
6
Songyao Huai
Qingdao University of Technology
7
Alex de la Iglesia Martinez
Utrecht University
8
Thami Croeser
MIT University
9
Evelise Pereira Barboza
Universitat Pompeu Fabra
10
Sean Goodwin
Basque Centre for Climate Change

Papers

1
Publication in Urban forestry & urban greening (2024) [77 citations, W4392878163]
Urban forestry & urban greening|2024
77 cit.
2
Effects of Biophilic Design interventions on university students' cognitive performance: An audio-visual experimental study in an Immersive Virtual office Environment
Building and Environment|2024
63 cit.
3
Acute canopy deficits in global cities exposed by the 3-30-300 benchmark for urban nature
Nature Communications|2024
43 cit.
4
Virtual reality application to explore indoor soundscape and physiological responses to audio-visual biophilic design interventions: An experimental study in an office environment
Journal of Building Engineering|2024
39 cit.
5
Publication in AMBIO (2024) [21 citations, W4405133649]
AMBIO|2024
21 cit.
6
Publication in Global Environmental Change (2024) [20 citations, W4403319292]
Global Environmental Change|2024
20 cit.
7
Action research for transformative change
Sustainability Science|2024
16 cit.
8
Nature-based solutions for urban biodiversity: Spatial targeting of retrofits can multiply ecological connectivity benefits
Landscape and Urban Planning|2024
16 cit.
9
Investigating the impact of greenery elements in office environments on cognitive performance, visual attention and distraction: An eye-tracking pilot-study in virtual reality
Applied Ergonomics|2024
15 cit.
10
Publication in Environmental Science & Policy (2025) [8 citations, W4413816827]
Environmental Science & Policy|2025
8 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Drafting the new consensus

Researchers

1
Megan Nowell
Norwegian Institute for Nature Research
2
Jim Burt
Natural England
3
Omoshalewa Bamkole
Office of Tribal Affairs and Strategic Alliances
4
Xuecao Li
China Agricultural University
5
Guifeng Han
Chongqing University
6
Anna Jørgensen
Schools of Visual Arts, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts
7
Shaheryar Naveed
Fatima Jinnah Women University
8
Sikandar Hayat
Xi'an International Studies University
9
Noor ul Amin
Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan
10
Carly C. Sponarski
Natural Resources Canada

Papers

1
Influences of landform and urban form factors on urban heat island: Comparative case study between Chengdu and Chongqing
The Science of The Total Environment|2022
147 cit.
2
Renewable energy R&D and natural resources: A success story of environmentally friendly financing in OECD economies
Resources Policy|2023
67 cit.
3
Does city-water layout matter? Comparing the cooling effects of water bodies across 34 Chinese megacities
Journal of Environmental Management|2022
50 cit.
4
Structural, morphological, XPS, dielectric and spectral properties of sol-gel synthesized Ba–Zn–Cr U-type nanocrystalline magnetic oxide materials
Ceramics International|2023
44 cit.
5
Spatial Trade-Offs in National Land-Based Wind Power Production in Times of Biodiversity and Climate Crises
Environmental and Resource Economics|2023
26 cit.
6
Performance of GEDI data combined with Sentinel-2 images for automatic labelling of wall-to-wall corn mapping
International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation|2024
23 cit.
7
Examine the parenting style effect on the academic achievement orientation of secondary school students: The moderating role of digital literacy
Frontiers in Psychology|2022
21 cit.
8
A robust gap-filling method for predicting missing observations in daily Black Marble nighttime light data
GIScience & Remote Sensing|2023
21 cit.
9
Green Fences for Buenos Aires: Implementing Green Infrastructure for (More than) Air Quality
Sustainability|2022
20 cit.
10
Impact of environmental comfort on urban vitality in small and medium-sized cities: A case study of Wuxi County in Chongqing, China
Frontiers in Public Health|2023
17 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Wrote the book, still writing it

Researchers

1
Kevin J. Gaston
University of Exeter
2
Mark Nieuwenhuijsen
Barcelona Institute for Global Health
3
Yoshifumi Miyazaki
Chiba University
4
W. C. Sullivan
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
5
Stephan Pauleit
Weihenstephan-Triesdorf University of Applied Sciences
6
Jianguo Wu
Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Disease Prevention and Control Center
7
Jian Kang
University College London
8
Lucy R. Hutyra
Boston University
9
Robert E. Jones
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
10
Dagmar Haase
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research

Papers

1
New Trends in Measuring Environmental Attitudes: Measuring Endorsement of the New Ecological Paradigm: A Revised NEP Scale
Journal of Social Issues|2000
5.5k cit.
2
Global forecasts of urban expansion to 2030 and direct impacts on biodiversity and carbon pools
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences|2012
4.8k cit.
3
Functional diversity: back to basics and looking forward
Ecology Letters|2006
2.5k cit.
4
Adapting Cities for Climate Change: The Role of the Green Infrastructure
Built Environment|2007
1.9k cit.
5
Functional diversity (FD), species richness and community composition
Ecology Letters|2002
1.9k cit.
6
Psychological benefits of greenspace increase with biodiversity
Biology Letters|2007
1.5k cit.
7
Landscape sustainability science: ecosystem services and human well-being in changing landscapes
Landscape Ecology|2013
1.5k cit.
8
Effects of changing scale on landscape pattern analysis: scaling relations
Landscape Ecology|2004
1.1k cit.
9
Thermal tolerance, climatic variability and latitude
Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences|2000
1.1k cit.
10
Urban ecology and sustainability: The state-of-the-science and future directions
Landscape and Urban Planning|2014
1.1k cit.

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