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Economics and Environment, 2022 In the face of growing urbanised areas, the presence of forests and their appropriate shaping is a key challenge for contemporary urban planning. The importance of forests is largely identified with natural, economic and social functions in non-urban ...
Agnieszka Sobol, Piotr Skubała
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Decoupling forest characteristics and background conditions to explain urban-rural variations of multiple microclimate regulation from urban trees [PDF]
PeerJ, 2018 Background Rapid urbanization in semi-arid regions necessitates greater cooling, humidifying, and shading services from urban trees, but maximizing these services requires an exact understanding of their association with forest characteristics and ...
Wenjie Wang +5 more
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Urban Forest and Urban Microclimate
Forests, 2023 Urban environments are challenging places for urban greenspaces, especially for trees, which have the greatest impact on ecosystem service provisions [...]
Thomas Rötzer +3 more
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Beliefs about urban fringe forests among urban residents in Sweden [PDF]
, 2012 The aim of this study was to examine predictors of beliefs about urban fringe forests among urban residents in Sweden (n = 586). Based on a cognitive hierarchical model, the study investigated how socio-demographic variables, as well as different values ...
Westin, Kerstin, +3 more
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Assessing climate risk to support urban forests in a changing climate
Plants, People, Planet, 2022 Societal Impact Statement Globally, cities are planning for resilience through urban greening initiatives as governments understand the importance of urban forests in improving quality of life and mitigating climate change.
Manuel Esperon‐Rodriguez +25 more
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MONITORING FOREST AREA CHANGE USING QUICKBIRD
Biotropia: The Southeast Asian Journal of Tropical Biology, 2022 A study was conducted to compare the urban forest management in three urban forests in Samarinda City. The application of GIS (Geographic Information System) is one of the alternatives to conduct a variety of processes such as: providing geographical ...
SRI ENDAYANI +4 more
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Urban Forests for Carbon Sequestration and Heat Island Mitigation [PDF]
, 2022 Urban forests serve both as a carbon sequestration pool and heat island mitigation tool. Climate change will increase the frequency and severity of urban heat islands. Thus, new urban planning strategies demand our attention.
Klein, Levente J, Albrecht, Conrad M
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Conversions of coppices to a coppice-with-standards in Urban Forests of Moravský Krumlov
Journal of Forest Science, 2004 Conversions of oak coppices were many times carried out only by renaming to false high forests. The paper presents a method of the conversion of overmature coppices to a coppice-with-standards implementation of which was started in urban forests of ...
D. Utinek
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ECOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF NITROGEN DEPOSITION ON URBAN FORESTS: AN OVERVIEW [PDF]
Frontiers of Agricultural Science and Engineering, 2022 <List> <ListItem><ItemContent><p>● Patterns and effects of N deposition on urban forests are reviewed.</p></ItemContent></ListItem> <ListItem><ItemContent><p>● N deposition generally shows an ...
Enzai DU, Nan XIA, Yuying GUO, Yuehan TIAN, Binghe LI, Xuejun LIU, Wim de VRIES
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The relationship between urban forests and income: A meta-analysis [PDF]
Landscape and Urban Planning, 2018 Shannon Lea Watkins
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