NDLI: People, landscape, and urban heat island: dynamics among neighborhood social conditions, land cover and surface temperatures

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Author	Huang, Ganlin Cadenasso, M. L.
Copyright Year	2016
Abstract	Urban heat island studies have found that land cover, neighborhood social conditions and temperatures are correlated. This received great academic attention because of potential ecological, social and health impacts. However, the processes and causalities behind such correlations remain unclear, which impede designing effective heat mitigation approaches.Our study aims to answer two questions: (1) Do social conditions influence temperature independent of land cover? (2) Is land cover more closely associated with temperature than neighborhood social conditions or vice versa?The analysis is for the year 2000 and the Gwynns Falls watershed in Baltimore, Maryland. Census data for 297 block groups and remote sensed data for land cover and surface temperature were used. To answer question 1, we used structural equation modeling to build and compare model fitness. We conducted partial correlation and regression analysis to answer question 2.Land cover (building and trees) leads both social conditions (race and income) and temperature to vary across space. When holding land cover constant, social conditions significantly contribute to temperature variation.This study extends understanding beyond simple correlation and determined that land cover influences the spatial variation in neighborhood social conditions and temperature.
Starting Page	2507
Ending Page	2515
Page Count	9
File Format	PDF
ISSN	09212973
Journal	Landscape Ecology
Volume Number	31
Issue Number	10
e-ISSN	15729761
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2016-08-30
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Subject Keyword	Urban heat island Neighborhood social condition Land cover Land surface temperature Structural equation modeling Baltimore Landscape Ecology Ecology Nature Conservation Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning Sustainable Development Environmental Management
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Geography, Planning and Development Ecology Nature and Landscape Conservation

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