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Year Published: 2020
Cities around the world are pursuing tree planting as a way to increase tree cover. Despite the growing interest in planting trees as a way to offset climate change…
Year Published: 2011
Trees are an economically, socially and culturally important component of cities, yet, in single city studies, appear to be less dense in areas of low income and educational status than in areas of high income and education status…
Author(s): Burgess, Steven
Year Published: 2018
Cities are changing. Well, good cities are changing. They are changing in a few ways, and these changes are having a range impacts…
Year Published: 2021
Trees and large shrubs in urban environments provide a wide array of ecosystem services, enhancing the well-being of urban residents…
Author(s): Blackburn, George Alan | Fan, Yifan | Gan, Muye | Li, Chenlu | Lin, Yue | Malik, Arunima | Shahtahmassebi, Amir Reza | Wang, Ke | Wu, Yani
Year Published: 2021
A knowledge of the characteristics of urban green spaces (UGSs) such as their abundance, spatial distribution and species composition, has an important role in a range of fields such as urban geography…
Year Published: 2017
Though relationships between urbanization and tree cover are generally well studied, the effect of redevelopment on urban trees, at the scale of the individual property, is not well understood…
Year Published: 2018
The effects of urbanization on urban forest canopy cover has received significant consideration at broad scales, but little research has explored redevelopment-related influences on individual tree removal at a property scale…
Year Published: 2017
Urban tree canopy cover (UTC) is a simple, and common, measure of urban forest resource. Urban infill development is likely to lead to losses in UTC under private tenure…
Author(s): Callow, David | Croeser, Thami | Kendal, Dave | Livesley, Stephen J. | Ordonez, Camilo | Threlfall, Caragh G. | van der Ree, Rodney
Year Published: 2020
Many cities face a struggle to reconcile ambitious tree canopy cover targets with urban development pressures. Canopy cover in The City of Melbourne…
Author(s): Rajagopalan, Priya
Year Published: 2019
20th National StreetTree Symposium by Priya Rajagopalan…
Author(s): Amati, Marco | Boruff, Bryan | Caccetta, Peter | Chia, Joanne | Duncan, John | Hurley, Joe | Saunders, Alex
Year Published: 2020
Trees provide myriad ecosystem services of benefit to urban populations; however, urban development is pressuring existing urban tree coverage. Thus, a pertinent challenge for planners is identifying development scenarios that find synergies…
Year Published: 2021
Cities experience overheating due to factors such as urban form and materials, concentration of human activities, reduction in the amount of vegetation and water surfaces…
Author(s): Vitale, Georgia
Year Published: 2017
Driven by the need to create more liveable communities and sustainable development, governments are rethinking the very structure and function of their cities…
Author(s): Gallagher, Libby
Year Published: 2018
Research undertaken in recent decades have established that urban tree canopy can significantly improve local temperatures, reduce urban heat, improve air quality and reduce air-conditioning costs (Simpson and McPherson 1996,1998; Hart & Sailor 2009, Stone 2012, Taha 1997 Rosenweig et al., 2006, Gallagher 2015)…
Year Published: 2021
Evidence affirms that green space has health benefits, but ethnic inequities in green space availability are under-researched. Percentages of parkland, tree canopy, and open grass within 1.6 km road network distance from home were linked…
Year Published: 2016
Trees play an important role in urban areas by improving air quality, mitigating urban heat islands, reducing stormwater runoff and providing biodiversity habitat…
Year Published: 2019
Along with ongoing urban development, cities are experiencing significantly different climates compared with surrounding rural or suburban areas…
Year Published: 2021
Extreme urban heat, influenced by surface characteristics, negatively affects human thermal comfort. Understanding the thermal behaviour of different urban surface parameters (USPs) at large spatial scales is essential for strategic heat mitigation…
Author(s): Ballantyne, Mark | Pickering, Catherine Marina
Year Published: 2015
Recreational trails are one of the most common types of infrastructure used for nature-based activities such as hiking and mountain biking worldwide. Depending on their design, location, construction, maintenance and use, these trails differ in their environmental impacts…
Author(s): Johnstone, Heather
Year Published: 2019
The delivery of the Urban Forest Strategy in collaboration with the Town of Victoria Park
(https://www.victoriapark.wa.gov.au/Home) directly involved a number or organisations…