Greening improvement scenarios for assessing the potential of urban carbon sinks and runoff reduction
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2025-12-01
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20452322
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2-s2.0-105009703665
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Scientific Reports
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15
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1
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Scientific Reports Vol.15 No.1 (2025)
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Singkran N. Greening improvement scenarios for assessing the potential of urban carbon sinks and runoff reduction. Scientific Reports Vol.15 No.1 (2025). doi:10.1038/s41598-025-06366-2 Retrieved from: https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/123456789/111178
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Greening improvement scenarios for assessing the potential of urban carbon sinks and runoff reduction
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Abstract
Two scenarios (SC1 and SC2) were developed using i-Tree Eco software to estimate carbon dioxide absorption (CO<inf>2abs</inf>) by trees and avoided runoff (AR) in improved urban green areas (increasing the sizes of these areas and planting additional trees) in Thailand for a 50-year forecast (2024–2074). Tree annual mortality rates of 1 and 3% were assigned to SC1 and SC2, respectively. The results indicated the high potential of the country’s green areas as urban C sinks if proper greening improvements are implemented. CO<inf>2abs</inf> in SC1 increased from 0.32 million metric tons-CO<inf>2</inf> equivalent (Mmt-CO<inf>2</inf>e) in 2024 to 9.24 Mmt-CO<inf>2</inf>e (a 2787.5% increase) in 2074 and is projected to increase beyond this year. In SC2, it increased from 0.32 Mmt-CO<inf>2</inf>e in 2024 to 3.66 Mmt-CO<inf>2</inf>e (a 1043.8% increase) in 2059 and is projected to gradually decline. The maximum AR (76.07 Mm<sup>3</sup>) was detected in SC1 at the end of the simulation period, but the peak AR (28.15 Mm<sup>3</sup>) in SC2 was detected in 2067, with a subsequent decline projected. Locally, CO<inf>2abs</inf> increased from the observed amounts (mainly not more than 5000 mt-CO<inf>2</inf>e) from 2019 to 2023 to more than 50,000 mt-CO<inf>2</inf>e in 65 (84.4%) of 77 provinces in Thailand in 2065.