The urban forest : cultivating green infrastructure for people and the environment

• Other Authors: Pearlmutter, David (Editor), Calfapietra, Carlo (Editor), Samson, Roeland (Editor), O'Brien, Liz (Editor), Ostoić, Silvija Krajter (Editor), Sanesi, Giovanni (Editor), Amo, Rocío Alonso del (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2017]
• Series: Future city ; v. 7.
• Subjects: Urban forestry.; City planning.; Trees in cities.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9783319502809; 9783319502793
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

This book focuses on urban "green infrastructure"? the interconnected web of vegetated spaces like street trees, parks and peri-urban forests that provide essential ecosystem services in cities. The green infrastructure approach embodies the idea that these services, such as storm-water ru...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Contributors
• 1. Environmental services provided by urban forests and green infrastructure
• 1.1. Introduction: Urban trees as environmental engineers
• 1.2. Ecosystem services: The environmental components
• 1.3. Delivery of goods and services
• 1.4. Biodiversity as support for ecosystem services and human wellbeing
• 1.5. The cost of greening: Disservices of urban trees
• 1.6. Case studies: Modeling the atmospheric benefits of urban greening
• 1.7. Assessing the ecosystem services deliverable: The critical role of the Urban Tree Inventory
• 1.8. Species-specific information for enhancing ecosystem services
• 1.9. Conclusions and recommendations
• 2. Socio-cultural services provided by urban forests and green infrastructure
• 2.1. Introduction: Socio cultural services of urban forests and green infrastructure
• 2.2. Social and environmental justice: Diversity in access to and benefits from urban green infrastructure? examples from Europe
• 2.3. Recreational use of urban green infrastructure: the tourist?s perspective
• 2.4. The role and value of urban forests and green infrastructure in promoting human health and wellbeing
• 3. Economic benefits and governance of urban forests in a green infrastructure approach
• 3.1. Introduction: Governance and economic valuation
• 3.2. Challenges to governing urban green infrastructure in Europe? the case of the European Green Capital Award
• 3.3. The role of partnerships and the Third Sector in the development and delivery of urban forestry and green infrastructure
• 3.4. The Value of Valuing: Recognising the benefits of the Urban Forest
• 4. Summary
• 4.1. Introduction: Tying it all together
• 4.2. Linking the environmental, social and economic aspects of urban forestry and green infrastructure
• 4.3. Growing the Urban Forest: our Practitioners? Perspective
• Subject index.