Urban Green Spaces

Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-0-443-32912-8
Verlag: Elsevier Science

Buch, Englisch, 302 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Improving Environmental and Human Health with Community Trees and Forests provides the latest and most comprehensive information on community forests globally, how these trees improve human health and well-being, the value of community trees, and what local land managers, from the lot to regional scale, could do to improve the benefits provided by community trees. It offers a complete understanding of the benefits and costs associated with trees in cities and how these benefits occur. This book facilitates the creation of sustainable community forests that provide optimal benefits to individuals and society.

It takes a systems approach, focusing on the forest population rather than the individual tree, and providing information on the best tree species and designs to produce optimal effects. The book is divided into three major sections: The Basics, Urban Forest Benefits, and Improving the Urban Environment with Trees. It covers how cities affect our local environment, the monetary value of trees, and specific steps that land managers should follow to manage and improve their local tree and forest population. This comprehensive resource is valuable for city forest and park managers, policy makers, regional managers, and non-profit groups.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Nowak, David

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Klimawandel, Globale Erwärmung
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Regional- & Raumplanung Stadtplanung, Kommunale Planung
• Technische Wissenschaften Umwelttechnik | Umwelttechnologie Umwelttechnik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

THE BASICS
1. The City Environment
2. The Urban Forest
3. The Changing Urban Forest
4. Sustainable Community Forests
5. The Tree - Basic Functions

URBAN FOREST BENEFITS
6. TREES: Totally Remarkable Environmental Engineering Solutions
7. Valuing Forests
8. Air Temperature Reduction
9. Building Energy Conservation
10. Social / Psychological / Physiological
11. Air Quality
12. Water Quality
13. Climate Change
14. Ultraviolet Radiation Reduction
15. Noise
16. Products
17. Wildlife
18. Oxygen Production
19. Other Benefits and Costs

IMPROVING THE URBAN ENVIRONMENT WITH TREES
20. Planning a Better Tomorrow
21. Assessing your Urban Forest Resource and Values
22. Developing Management Plan
23. Monitoring Progress
24. Conclusion

APPENDICES
1: Author Biography
2: Best Tree Species
3: Best Design Summary
4: Dedication
5: Acknowledgments
6: Glossary

Über Autor(innen)

Nowak, David
Dr. David Nowak is a retired Senior Scientist of the U.S. Forest Service. He has authored 400 publications and led teams developing the i-Tree software suite that quantifies the benefits and values from vegetation globally. He has given over 600 presentations across the world. His awards include International Union of Forestry Research Organization's Scientific Achievement Award, International Society of Arboriculture's L.C. Chadwick Award for Arboricultural Research and R.W. Harris Author's Citation, J. Sterling Morton Award - Arbor Day Foundation's highest honor, U.S. EPA Office of Research and Development Honor Award, American Forests Urban Forest Medal, Distinguished Science Award: Northeastern Research Station, and Cecil Konijnendijk Award for Outstanding Research on Urban Forestry and Urban Greening. He was also a contributing member of Noble Peace Prize winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. He is ranked in the top 1% of all scientists (all fields) globally and ranked #2 among 24,000+ forest researchers worldwide.