The Urban Forest Cultivating Green Infrastructure for People and the Environment /

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 r...

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Müşterek Yazar: SpringerLink (Online service)
Diğer Yazarlar: Pearlmutter, David (Editör), Calfapietra, Carlo (Editör), Samson, Roeland (Editör), O'Brien, Liz (Editör), Krajter Ostoić, Silvija (Editör), Sanesi, Giovanni (Editör), Alonso del Amo, Rocío (Editör)
Materyal Türü: e-Kitap
Dil:İngilizce
Baskı/Yayın Bilgisi: Cham : Springer International Publishing : 2017.
Imprint: Springer,
Edisyon:1st ed. 2017.
Seri Bilgileri:Future City, 7
Konular:
Earth sciences.
Life sciences.
Environment.
Social sciences.
Earth Sciences.
Life Sciences.
Environmental Sciences.
Society.
Online Erişim:Full-text access
İçindekiler:
  • 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. .

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