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Showing 1 to 20 of 39 for “"Urban forestry"”.
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Urban Forestry at a Crossroads: Development of an Emerging Profession
… has been around for most of human history, urban forestry has only been organizing as a discrete profession since the mid-1960s. As a relatively new profession, urban forestry lacks much of the structure and organization seen in other professions. This study will contrast urban forestry …
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Community Engagement in Urban Forestry: Exploring Barriers and Strategies for Inclusion of Recent Racialised Immigrants in Toronto’s Urban Forest
The correlation of inequitable urban forest distribution with race and income is well-documented. Yet, despite the recognition of the underrepresentation of racialised communities, Canada’s urban forestry sector is slow to address access disparities to information and engagement opportunities, …
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Planting trees, planting hope: an analysis of the role of urban forestry in addressing environmental inequality in Cape Town
The presence of trees in urban spaces has been identified as providing numerous environmental, psychosocial, and economic benefits. However, rather than being an equally distributed resource which all city residents share, tree cover in Cape Town, South Africa tends to be a marker of environmental …
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A Description of Texas Municipal Forestry Programs: How Critical Program Elements Vary According to City Size, Expenditures, and Assistance from the State
… to describe how six critical program elements of urban and community forestry programs in Texas municipalities vary according to city size, expenditures, and assistance from Texas A&M Forest Service. The six critical program elements are 1) staffing levels, 2) tree ordinances, 3) advocacy, 4) …
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Urban Tree Canopy Assessments in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed
An urban tree canopy assessment (UTCA) is a new technology that can inform management decisions to optimize the economic, social and environmental benefits provided by urban forests. A UTCA uses remote sensing to create a comprehensive spatial snapshot of a locality's land cover, classified at a …
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Urban Forest Waste Generation and Utilization by Municipal and Private Arboricultural Operations in Virginia
Urban forest waste utilization has been identified as an essential component of the sustainable urban forest management system. To compile baseline data on generation and utilization of urban forest waste (UFW) in Virginia, 91 urbanized municipalities and 828 International Society of Arboriculture …
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Estimating above and below ground vegetation biomass and carbon storage across an intra-urban land-use gradient in mid-Missouri
*Urbanization includes a gradient of disturbance along which impacts on vegetative communities can widely vary. Urban forests play a vital role as carbon sinks for atmospheric carbon dioxide. In order to further understanding of the impacts of urbanization on vegetative communities and carbon …
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Influence of tree planting guidelines on street tree distribution along bus corridors
… in public transportation to promote sustainable urban development, urban forestry presents an important yet underutilized opportunity to enhance commuter experience and environmental resilience, as street trees can significantly reduce urban heat island effects and enhance the comfort of bus …
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Leaf Functional Traits as Predictors of Drought Tolerance in Urban Trees
<p>The services that urban trees provide to human society and the natural environment are widely recognized, but urban trees are in jeopardy due to climate change and urban stressors. With drought as a major threat in many areas, it is important for the future of urban forestry to select species …
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Influence of Tree Planting Program Characteristics on Environmental Justice Outcomes
Urban trees provide a variety of benefits to human physical and mental health. However, prior research has shown that urban tree canopy is unevenly distributed; areas with lower household incomes or higher proportions of racial or ethnic minorities tend to have less canopy. Urban tree benefits are …
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Characterization of co-benefits of green stormwater infrastructure across ecohydrologic regions in the United States
… are commonly used in municipalities to reduce urban flooding and water pollution. In conjunction with these direct benefits, GSI systems provide additional social and ecological "co-benefits". Our goal was to investigate the co-benefits of commonly used GSI systems in five cities in the United …
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Growth and Physiology of Several Urban Tree Species in Soils Disturbed by Construction Fill or Compaction
… to soil compaction, both common site disturbances in urban forestry. Groups of 22-year-old white oak (Quercus alba) and 13-year-old sweetgum (Liquidambar styraciflua) were subjected to one of three treatments: a control, fill (20 cm of subsoil spread over the root zones), and compacted …
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Standardization of Street Sampling Units to Improve Street Tree Population Estimates Derived by i-Tree Streets Inventory Software
Street trees are a subpopulation of the urban forest resource and exist in the rights-of-way adjacent to public roads in a municipality. Benefit-cost analyses have shown that the annual benefits provided by the average street tree far outweigh the costs of planting and maintenance. City and …
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Information on emergent insect associated tree diseases including epidemiological studies of drippy blight disease of oak and thousand cankers disease of walnut
… to hardwood trees in communities across the urban corridor of Colorado. In order to better understand these disease complexes, studies were initiated to identify the causal agents, symptomology, and epidemiology of drippy blight disease as well as determine if multiple fungi were involved in …
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Fusion Approaches to Individual Tree Species Classification Using Multi-Source Remotely Sensed Data
Tree species information plays essential roles in urban ecological management and sustainable development, and thus tree species classification has been an active research topic over the years. This study investigated fusion approaches deployed with Support Vector Machine (SVM) and Random Forest …
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Flexure modulus of elasticity in living branch wood
… a desire, and more importantly a demand for urban forests due to a disconnection from nature as more of us become urban dwellers. Future trends predict increases in human populations which will substantially increase the amount of urban lands, especially around metropolitan areas. Urban trees …
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The West Virginia Friends of Firewood Network: Engaging with and exploring the practices of firewood producers
Firewood is the oldest source of energy for cooking and home heating and remains a primary heating source for half of the world's population, yet the industry remains relatively undocumented and immature both in developing and technologically advanced countries. Firewood is an environmentally …
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Ecological change in the urban forest of six Midwest, USA cities over twenty-five years
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Michigan State University. Forestry, 2010
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An Assessment of the Potential Impacts of Emerald Ash Borer (Agrilus planipennis Fairmaire) on Virginia's Municipal Street Trees
… that the invasive pest might have on municipal urban forests and street trees. Despite these concerns, little is known about native ash abundance in Virginia's urban forests; as a result, potential EAB impacts have been difficult to project. In this study, street tree assessments were conducted …
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Inventorying trees in an urban landscape using small-footprint discrete return imaging lidar
Automation of urban tree inventory using remote sensing is needed not only to reduce inventory costs but also to support carbon accounting for urban planners and policy-makers. However, urban areas are heterogeneous and complex, and a more sophisticated approach is needed for using remote-sensing …
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