Connecting Trees with People

Synergistic Strategies for Growing the Urban Forest
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-3-030-94536-7
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, Band 16, 200 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 388 g

Reihe: Future City

Written from the perspective of an urban forester and certified arborist, the reader will have a basic understanding of what makes a tree a tree in context to the philosophical and cultural underpinnings of Urban and Community Forestry, and learn how to implement model, time-tested global green practices and initiatives derived from citizen science.

Zielgruppe

Professional/practitioner

Autoren/Hrsg.

Zürcher, Naomi

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Agrarwissenschaften Ackerbaukunde, Pflanzenbau Forstwirtschaft, Forstwissenschaft
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Nachhaltigkeit
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Ökologie
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Regional- & Raumplanung Stadtplanung, Kommunale Planung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface.- Acknowledgements.- Chapter 1. Introducing the tree.- Chapter 2. The Urban Forest: from oxymoron to critical resource.- Chapter 3. The great tree migration: from forest to city center.- Chapter 4. Growing the Urban and Community Forest Today for the City of Tomorrow: connecting our trees and their needs to their human associates.- Chapter 5. The Global Experience in Green Participatory Place-making: a worldwide sampling of Urban and Community Forest connectivity.- Chapter 6. Making a difference – questions asked and questions answered.- Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Naomi Zürcher is an Urban Forester, an ISA Certified Consulting Arborist and an affiliate member of the USA I Tree team in Luzern, Switzerland.