Urban tree planting: a strategy to mitigate global warming
The article takes a closer look at urban tree planting in relation to current global warming concerns. Trees capture and store CO2 so they directly help to avoid the earth heating up, directly. Trees also decrease temperature in open space, minimizing urban heat islands, diminishing solar radiation...
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| author | Vargas-Gómez, Orlando Molina-Prieto, Luis |
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| description | The article takes a closer look at urban tree planting in relation to current global warming concerns. Trees capture and store CO2 so they directly help to avoid the earth heating up, directly. Trees also decrease temperature in open space, minimizing urban heat islands, diminishing solar radiations impact on constructions and, therefore, reducing electricity usage for air conditioning— helping power plants drop their CO2 emissions for energy generation. Some cities are beginning to take advantage of these and other benefits of urban tree planting, but in most cases its planning follows a landscaping and aesthetic approach that largely has an effect on urban infrastructures. The article concludes that academic programs in architecture and urban planning and design should promptly include in their curriculums the study of urban tree planting from an environmental and ecological perspective so urban trees are no longer simply decorative elements, not to mention artificial decorative elements, but a strategic resource to actively mitigate global warming |
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| spelling | repositorio.uan.edu.co-123456789-105702024-10-14T03:50:08Z Urban tree planting: a strategy to mitigate global warming Arborizaciones urbanas: estrategia para mitigar el calentamiento global Vargas-Gómez, Orlando Molina-Prieto, Luis Captura y almacenamiento de CO2 Islas de Calor botánica urbana CO2 capture and storage urban heat islands (UHI) urban botany The article takes a closer look at urban tree planting in relation to current global warming concerns. Trees capture and store CO2 so they directly help to avoid the earth heating up, directly. Trees also decrease temperature in open space, minimizing urban heat islands, diminishing solar radiations impact on constructions and, therefore, reducing electricity usage for air conditioning— helping power plants drop their CO2 emissions for energy generation. Some cities are beginning to take advantage of these and other benefits of urban tree planting, but in most cases its planning follows a landscaping and aesthetic approach that largely has an effect on urban infrastructures. The article concludes that academic programs in architecture and urban planning and design should promptly include in their curriculums the study of urban tree planting from an environmental and ecological perspective so urban trees are no longer simply decorative elements, not to mention artificial decorative elements, but a strategic resource to actively mitigate global warming El artículo aborda el rol de las arborizaciones urbanas frente a la problemática del calentamiento global. Los árboles capturan y almacenan CO2, por lo que contribuyen de manera directa con la mitigación del calentamiento global. Además, atenúan la temperatura de los espacios públicos, minimizan el efecto de Islas de Calor en las ciudades y disminuyen el impacto de la radiación solar sobre las edificaciones, por lo que reducen los consumos de energía eléctrica para aire acondicionado, y así, de manera indirecta, contribuyen con la reducción del calentamiento global, pues merman las emisiones de CO2 en las plantas generadoras de energía eléctrica. Algunas ciudades están empezando a aprovechar esas potencialidades del arbolado urbano, pero en la mayoría se continúa planificando la arborización bajo el enfoque del paisajismo, de la estética, que muchas veces genera severos daños a la infraestructura urbana. Se concluyeque los programas académicos en los campos de la arquitectura, el diseño y la planificación urbana, deben incluir prontamente en sus currículos el estudio de las arborizaciones urbanas (en profundidad), para que los árboles urbanos no sean simples elementos decorativos, ni mucho menos de plástico, sino un recurso estratégico que contribuya activamente con la mitigación del calentamiento global. 2014-06-10 2024-10-10T02:29:29Z 2024-10-10T02:29:29Z info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Artículo revisado por pares http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501 http://purl.org/coar/version/c_970fb48d4fbd8a85 https://revistas.uan.edu.co/index.php/nodo/article/view/103 https://repositorio.uan.edu.co/handle/123456789/10570 spa https://revistas.uan.edu.co/index.php/nodo/article/view/103/84 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2 application/pdf UNIVERSIDAD ANTONIO NARIÑO REVISTA NODO; Vol. 8 Núm. 16 (2014); 99 - 108 2346-092X 1909-3888 |
| spellingShingle | Captura y almacenamiento de CO2 Islas de Calor botánica urbana CO2 capture and storage urban heat islands (UHI) urban botany Vargas-Gómez, Orlando Molina-Prieto, Luis Urban tree planting: a strategy to mitigate global warming |
| title | Urban tree planting: a strategy to mitigate global warming |
| title_full | Urban tree planting: a strategy to mitigate global warming |
| title_fullStr | Urban tree planting: a strategy to mitigate global warming |
| title_full_unstemmed | Urban tree planting: a strategy to mitigate global warming |
| title_short | Urban tree planting: a strategy to mitigate global warming |
| title_sort | urban tree planting a strategy to mitigate global warming |
| topic | Captura y almacenamiento de CO2 Islas de Calor botánica urbana CO2 capture and storage urban heat islands (UHI) urban botany |
| url | https://revistas.uan.edu.co/index.php/nodo/article/view/103 https://repositorio.uan.edu.co/handle/123456789/10570 |
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