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Demand for urban forests in United States cities [PDF]

open access: yesLandscape and Urban Planning, 2008
Extensive economic investigations have shown a variety of benefits derived from urban forests, but study on demand for urban forests remains limited. This study investigates the impact of selected potential factors on the demand for urban forests at the ...
Qiuyu Zhu, Yaoqi Zhang
exaly   +2 more sources

The Urban Forest

GEOSTRATA Magazine
The Urban Forest: Chapter 5 explores forest valorization, and green capitalism more widely, as a cultural project. Efforts to make the forest culturally valuable were entangled with those to make it monetarily valuable in ways that reshaped the Acrean capital city and the lives of some of its residents.
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The Urban Forest

Prairie Schooner, 2003
Although he lived just two blocks from it, Marshall had journeyed into the Liberty Plaza housing project only once before. His son, in kindergarten then, had given a Hmong classmate a birthday party invitation. For a while the boy had stopped by almost every day on his way home from school to ask if they were going to have cake now, but Marshall was ...
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Urban Forests on the Front Line

Science, 2014
In their Review “The consequence of tree pests and diseases for ecosystem services” (15 November 2013, p. [823][1]), I. L. Boyd et al. discuss the effects of pests on forest ecosystem services. However, urban forests garnered little attention.
C A, Nock   +4 more
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Forest Urbanisms

A radical redefinition of how humanity occupies the earth — through forestry, agriculture, and settlement — and rearticulates environmental stewardship by intertwining ecologies and urbanisms, this publication brings together essays by scholars in forestry, urbanism and other disciplines, designers, practitioners and policy makers.
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Assessing urban forest effects and values, Minneapolis' urban forest

2006
An analysis of trees in Minneapolis, MN, reveals that the city has about 979,000 trees with canopies that cover 26.4 percent of the area. The most common tree species are green ash, American elm, and boxelder. The urban forest currently stores about 250,000 tons of carbon valued at $4.6 million.
David J. Nowak   +4 more
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