A tree-planting decision support tool for urban heat mitigation
Published in PLoS ONE, 2020
Recommended citation: Werbin ZR, Heidari L, Buckley S, Brochu P, Butler LJ, Connolly C, et al. (2020). "A tree-planting decision support tool for urban heat mitigation." PLoS ONE. 15(10): e0224959. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0224959
This paper discusses efforts to mitigate urban heat by expanding tree canopy within Boston. We describe a Shiny app for analyzing heat vulnerability & heat exposure, and choosing trees to match local conditions.