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Optimization of Ecosystem Services of Shanghai Urban–Suburban Street Trees Based on Low-Carbon Targets

Yugang Chen, Changkun Xie, Ruiyuan Jiang and Shengquan Che
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Yugang Chen: Department of Landscape Architecture, School of Design, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
Changkun Xie: Department of Landscape Architecture, School of Design, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
Ruiyuan Jiang: Department of Landscape Architecture, School of Design, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
Shengquan Che: Department of Landscape Architecture, School of Design, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China

Sustainability, 2021, vol. 13, issue 23, 1-16

Abstract: Road traffic carbon emissions are an important cause of global warming, and street trees play an important role in regulating road carbon emissions. During urbanization, major differences in the planting management modes and growth status of the street trees in urban–suburban gradient may exist, leading to significant differences in the low-carbon values of the street trees in urban–suburban gradient. Based on this, this study took two typical urban–suburban gradient zones in Shanghai as an example to analyze the changes in the characteristics of street tree species, planting density, tree sizes, and low-carbon contribution with urban and rural changes, and proposed strategies for optimizing the low-carbon contribution of urban street trees. The results showed that, from the inner ring to the outer ring and the suburban ring, the proportion of London plane tree gradually changed from 82% to 11%, and the proportion of the camphor tree gradually changed from 9% to 70%; the average DBH of the trees gradually decreased from 28.81 to 23.74 cm. The number of plantings per unit road length gradually increased, and the number of plantings per unit area gradually decreased; therefore, the average low-carbon contribution of urban–suburban street trees is not significant, but the low-carbon contribution of upper street trees per unit area is higher, and suburban unit street trees have a higher low-carbon contribution. Finally, this article proposes different optimization strategies for future urban micro-renewal and suburban new-city construction.

Keywords: low-carbon goals; street trees; ecosystem services; optimization strategies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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