Investigation on Shading Effect of Urban Green Space in Summer in Hangzhou

Abstract

With the accelerating developments of the current urbanization in the world and the increasingly severe environmental problems, the research on ecological service function of urban green spaces has been the frontier subject for the international ecology. The urban green spaces are a special underlying surface, an important composition of the urban natural eco-system. For the urban green spaces, the crowns of the plants can block, absorb and reflect the radiation from the sun to obviously reduce the sunshine penetrating to the ground through the spaces of the leaves, which can reduce torridness and sever sunshine and enhance people’s environmental comfortableness. Hence they are entitled with a significant ecological service function. The research focuses on classifying the shading effect of various urban green spaces in summer in Hangzhou in order to realize the amount situations of shading effect of urban green spaces in summer in Hangzhou and to provide inspiration and reference for elaborately classifying and evaluating service function values of shading effect of ecological service function of urban green spaces