Nature’s Impact on Human Health Action Guide
The Nature’s Impact on Human Health Guide is a resource primarily intended for practitioners and community leaders seeking to evaluate…
Evaluating Stormwater Benefits of Atlanta’s Urban Forest
This project documents the contribution of urban tree systems to stormwater nutrient and volume control in terms of their effectiveness at…
Understanding i-Tree: Summary of Programs and Methods
This report provides details about the underlying methods and calculations of these tools, as well their potential limitations. Also discussed…
Health impact assessment of Philadelphia’s 2025 tree canopy cover goals
USFS Research greenspace health impact assessment estimating the annual premature mortality burden for adult residents associated with projected changes in…
Green Space and Deaths Attributable to the Urban Heat Island Effect in Ho Chi Minh City
Quantified heat-related deaths in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, caused by the urban heat island (UHI) and explored factors that…
Health Impact Assessment of Philadelphia’s Tree Canopy
A team of scientists, including researchers at the USDA Philadelphia Field Station, projected the impact on mortality if Philadelphia reaches…
Worldwide Study Shows Relationship Between Greenness and Lower Mortality
The authors systematically reviewed and analyzed more than 9,200 studies conducted worldwide. The meta-analysis found evidence that surrounding greenness reduced…
Green Infrastructure and Health Guide
Willamette Partnership and Oregon Public Health Institute built the “Green Infrastructure and Health Guide” for the Green Infrastructure Leadership Exchange…
Greening in the Red Zone
Greening in the Red Zone asserts that creation and access to green spaces confers resilience and recovery in systems disrupted…
What About the Trees? Trees as Nature-Based “Shade Sails”
Summarizes how exposure to nature improves health and well-being for people of all ages. Co-author Dr. Robert Zarr is founder…
Value of US Urban Tree Cover: Mitigate Heat Island Effect, Conserve Energy
High air temperatures are a public health threat,causing 1300 deaths annually in the United States(US) along with heat-related morbidity and…
Feeling down? Head to the park.
That may not be the exact prescription of your doctor, but a first-of-its-kind study shows that visitors to urban parks…
Urban Trees, Air Quality and Asthma: An Interdisciplinary Review
A must read for those interested in trees and public health! This rigorous review of studies from around the world…
A Dose-Response Curve Describing the Relationship Between Urban Tree Cover Density and Self-Reported Stress Recovery
Although it is well established that viewing nature can help individuals recover from a stressful experience, the dose-response curve describing…
Social Life Under Cover: Tree Canopy and Social Capital in Baltimore, Maryland
To what extent does the density of the tree cover in a city relate to the amount of social capital…
Impacts of views to school landscapes on recovery from stress and mental fatigue
Previous research has demonstrated positive associations between the greenness of high school landscapes and school-wide academic performance. We do not…
Trees Reduce Heat Island Effect … and Save Lives
A rigorous study of green space and heat-related deaths in Ho Chi Minh City suggests that every 1-square kilometer increase in…
Exploring the Evidence: Health Effects of Green Places
Howard Frumkin, noted physician and public health leader, published this early compendium of the health impacts of built and natural…
Look Out the Window. See Trees. Shorten Your Hospital Stay.
A landmark study in 1984 studies the length of hospital stays among patients who received the same type of surgery…
Living in a greener neighborhood could lower risk of premature death
Researchers at the University of New Brunswick used census and tax data to track 1.3 million non-immigrant Canadian adults living…
EPA’s EnviroAtlas Explores How Ecosystem Services Mitigate Natural Disasters
This multi-purpose mapping tool describes how good management of local ecosystems can reduce the impact of flooding, hurricanes, extreme heat…
Reducing Heat Island Effect: Tree Canopy Twice as Effective as Other Strategies
The City of Dallas covers 396 square miles; it’s the ninth largest in the United States. But it’s also one…
Funding Trees for Health
This report focuses on an area that has received a lot of attention recently, the links between trees and public…
Air Pollution Removal and Urban Vegetation
Integrated studies of tree effects on air pollution reveal that management of urban tree canopy cover could be a viable…
Community-Developed Plan for Greening Inglewood
TreePeople and SJLI proposed developing a Greening Plan that could serve both communities. They committed to a non-traditional planning process designed to…