Nature Communications (Jan 2022)

Global climate-driven trade-offs between the water retention and cooling benefits of urban greening

  • M. O. Cuthbert,
  • G. C. Rau,
  • M. Ekström,
  • D. M. O’Carroll,
  • A. J. Bates

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-28160-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Urban greening can help to mitigate both heat as well as flooding risks, but how these effects interact is not well known. Here, the authors provide a global analysis and show that most cities benefit from one of these two effects, but only few from both.