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-Benefits of Urban Trees

-Benefits of Urban Trees

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This dissertation focuses on understanding current and future implications of people’s wellbeing, specifically in urban centers. The problems analyzed are mental health, air pollution, thicker leaves, urban heat islands and heat waves. The dissertation suggests that an innovative solution to solve these issues of wellbeing would be by increasing th...

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... order to tackle mental health, while enhancing recovery and providing cleaner air, the idea of green spaces serve as a great answer. As shown in Figure 1, having access to green spaces has a wide range of benefits such as, support psychological restoration, encourage exercise, improve social coherence, decreasing noise and air pollution affecting cognition and brain development, improve immune functioning, lower depression and schizophrenia risk, improve children's cognitive development, and reduce neural activity associated to psychiatric disorders.60 ...

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