Urban Forests

Ecosystem Services and Management

J. Blum, J. Blum

• Publisher: Apple Academic Press
• Year: 2017
• ISBN:
  9781315341866
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Scienze biologiche
• Subtopic: Ecologia

This title includes a number of Open Access chapters.

This new research compendium focuses on urban forestry research and management, while also considering the sociological and community aspects. The book looks at the benefits of urban forests with respect to urban sustainability and human health; issues related to expanding the urban tree canopy; managing urban forests in a community context; and improving our understanding of urban forests through research and practice.

Contents

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1. Acknowledgment and How to Cite
2. List of Contributors
3. Introduction
4. Part I: The Benefits of Urban Forests
5. 1. Contribution of Ecosystem Services to Air Quality and Climate Change Mitigation Policies: The Case of Urban Forests in Barcelona, Spain
6. Francesc Baró, Lydia Chaparro, Erik Gómez-Baggethun, Johannes Langemeyer, David J. Nowak, and Jaume Terradas
7. 2. Modelling Short-Rotation Coppice and Tree Planting for Urban Carbon Management–A Citywide Analysis
8. Nicola McHugh, Jill L. Edmondson, Kevin J. Gaston, Jonathan R. Leake, and Odhran S. O'Sullivan
9. 3. Neighborhood Greenspace and Health in a Large Urban Center
10. Omid Kardan, Peter Gozdyra, Bratislav Misic, Faisal Moola, Lyle J. Palmer, Tomáš Paus, and Marc G. Berman
11. Part II: Expanding the Urban Tree Canopy
12. 4. Public Reactions to New Street Tree Planting
13. Ruth A. Rae, Gabriel Simon, and Jessie Braden
14. 5. It’s Not Easy Going Green: Obstacles to Tree-Planting Programs in East Baltimore
15. Michael Battaglia, Geoffrey L. Buckley, Michael Galvin, and Morgan Grove
16. Part III: Managing Urban Forests
17. 6. A Protocol for Citizen Science Monitoring of Recently-Planted Urban Trees
18. Jessica M. Vogt and Burnell C. Fischer
19. Part IV: Improving Our Understanding of Urban Forests
20. 7. 110 Years of Change in Urban Tree Stocks and Associated Carbon Storage
21. Daniel F. Díaz-Porras, Kevin J. Gaston, and Karl L. Evans
22. 8. Biological, Social, and Urban Design Factors Affecting Young Street Tree Mortality in New York City
23. Jacqueline W.T. Lu, Erika S. Svendsen, Lindsay K. Campbell, Jennifer Greenfeld, Jessie Braden, Kristen L. King, and Nancy Falxa-Raymond
24. 9. Tree Diversity in Southern California’s Urban Forest: The Interacting Roles of Social and Environmental Variables
25. Meghan L. Avolio, Diane E. Pataki, Thomas W. Gillespie, G. Darrel Jenerette, Heather R. McCarthy, Stephanie Pincetl, and Lorraine Weller Clarke
26. 10. Assessing the Effects of the Urban Forest Restoration Effort of MillionTreesNYC on the Structure and Functioning of New York City Ecosystems
27. P. Timon McPhearson, Michael Feller, Alexander Felson, Richard Karty, Jacqueline W.T. Lu, Matthew I. Palmer, and Tim Wenskus
28. Author Notes
29. Index

ACKNOWLEDGMENT AND HOW TO CITE

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The editor and publisher thank each of the authors who contributed to this book. The chapters in this book were previously published elsewhere. To cite the work contained in this book and to view the individual permissions, please refer to the citation at the beginning of each chapter. Each chapter was read individually and carefully selected by the editor; the result is a book that provides a multi-perspective look at research into many elements of urban forests. The chapters included are organized into four sections as follows:

The first section focuses on the various benefits of urban forests.

• Chapter 1 models urban air quality and climate regulation to examine the complex relationship between municipal forests, ecosystem services, and urban space, emphasizing the need for integrated green strategies.
• Chapter 2 demonstrates that well managed urban tree cover can contribute to urban sustainability through fossil fuel replacement, as well through carbon storage.
• Chapter 3 studies connections between tree cover and human health to suggest cost-effective strategies to improve well-being in certain urban populations.

The second section explores the issues surrounding urban tree planting.

• Chapters4 and5 explore the multifaceted response of urban residents to trees and tree planting, indicating a need for more citizen involvement in urban greening campaigns.

The third section centers on community-based stewardship of urban forests.

• Chapter 6 discusses a tool for communities could employ to gather data for the effective care of local trees.

The final section turns to enhancing knowledge of urban forestry.

• Chapter 7 analyzes urban tree dynamics via historical photography to evaluate conditions for preserving trees with high ecosystem value.
• Chapter 8 examines biological, social, and urban design factors that influence the survival of young urban trees in order to advance management practices.
• Chapter 9 scrutinizes urban forests patterns to find that socioeconomic factors strongly influence variations in urban tree cover diversity.
• Chapter 10 focuses on the effects of input management on new urban forests over time, suggesting that biological diversity increases as conditions favorable to invasive species recede.

LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS

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Meghan L. Avolio

Department of Biology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA

Francesc Baró

Institute of Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA), Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB)

Michael Battaglia

Michigan Technological University Research Institue

Marc G. Berman

Department of Psychology, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA; Grossman Institute for Neuroscience, Quantitative Biology, and Human Behavior, University of Chicago

Jessie Braden

City of New York, Department of Parks & Recreation, Central Forestry & Horticulture

Geoffrey L. Buckley

Ohio University

Lindsay K. Campbell

USDA Forest Service, Northern Research Station

Lydia Chaparro

Ecologistas en Acción

Lorraine Weller Clarke

Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA, USA

Daniel F. Díaz-Porras

Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, U.K; Escuela de Ciencias, Universidad Autónoma ‘Benito Juárez’ de Oaxaca, Oaxaca, Mexico

Karl L. Evans

Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, U.K

Jill L. Edmondson

Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK

Nancy Falxa-Raymond

Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology, Columbia University

Michael Feller

New York City Department of Parks & Recreation, Natural Resources Group

Alexander Felson

Yale University School of Architecture, School of Forestry & Environmental Studies

Burnell C. Fischer

The Vincent and Elinor Ostrom Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, and Center for the Study of Institutions, Population and Environmental Change, Indiana University, Bloomington

Michael Galvin

SavATree

Kevin J. Gaston

Environment and Sustainability Institute, University of Exeter, Penryn, Cornwall, UK

Thomas W. Gillespie

Department of Geography, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Erik Gómez-Baggethun

Institute of Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA), Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB)

Jennifer Greenfeld

Central Forestry & Horticulture, City of New York Department of Parks and Recreation

Morgan Grove

USDA Forest Service

Peter Gozdyra

Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, ON, Canada

G. Darrel Jenerette

Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA, USA

Omid Kardan

Department of Psychology, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA

Richard Karty

The New School, Tishman Environment and Design Center

Kristen L. King

Forestry, Horticulture, and Natural Resources, City of New York Department of Parks and Recreation

Jonathan R. Leake

Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK

Johannes Langemeyer

Institute of Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA), Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB)

Jacqueline W.T. Lu

Forestry, Horticulture and Natural Resources, City of New York Department of Parks and Recreation

Heather R. McCarthy

Department of Microbiology and Plant Biology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA

Nicola McHugh

Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK

P. Timon McPhearson

The New School, Tishman Environment and Design Center

Bratislav Misic

Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA

Faisal Moola

The David Suzuki Foundation, Toronto, ON, Canada

David J. Nowak

USDA Forest Service, SUNY-ESF

Odhran S. O'Sullivan

Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK

Lyle J. Palmer

Translational Health Science, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia

Matthew I. Palmer

Columbia University, Department of Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology

Diane E. Pataki

Department of Biology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA

Stephanie Pincetl

Institute of Environment and Sustainability, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Tomáš Paus

Rotman Research Institute, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

Ruth A. Rae

City of New York, Department of Parks & Recreation, Central Forestry & Horticulture Division

Gabriel Simon

City of New York, Department of Parks & Recreation, Central Forestry & Horticulture

Erika S. Svendsen

USDA Forest Service, Northern Research Station

Jaume Terradas

Centre for Ecological Research and Forestry Applications (CREAF), Autonomous University of Bar-celona (UAB)

Jessica M. Vogt

Center for the Study of Institutions, Population and Environmental Change, Indiana University, Bloomington

Tim Wenskus

New York City Department of Parks & Recreation, Natural Resources Group

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