Paying for nature‐based solutions: A review of funding and financing mechanisms for ecosystem services and their impacts on social equity

A Thompson, K Bunds, L Larson… - Sustainable …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Funding and financing challenges remain a persistent barrier to implementing nature‐based
solutions that enhance ecosystem services, facilitate adaptation to climate change, and …

Urban in Question: Recovering the Concept of Urban in Urban Resilience

S Shamsuddin - Sustainability, 2023 - mdpi.com
Existential threats from climate change, weather-related disasters, and other crises have
drawn increasing attention to urban resilience. Prior work has focused on explicating …

Green infrastructure and relationship with urbanization–Importance and necessity of integrated governance

NV Miroshnyk, AF Likhanov, TO Grabovska… - Land Use Policy, 2022 - Elsevier
The article uses an interdisciplinary approach to study the links between urbanization and
the state of the green infrastructure of the metropolis, which indicates the possibility of …

Diversity and structure in California's urban forest: What over six million data points tell us about one of the world's largest urban forests

NLR Love, V Nguyen, C Pawlak, A Pineda… - Urban Forestry & Urban …, 2022 - Elsevier
Urban street trees provide many benefits to surrounding communities, but our ability to
assess such benefits relies on the availability of high-quality urban tree data. While these …

Development of a new social resilience assessment model for urban forest parks

B Mahmoudi, Z Sorouri, EK Zenner… - Environmental …, 2022 - Elsevier
Vegetation and urban green spaces play an important role in reducing stressful living
conditions in urban surroundings and helping people adapt and cope with crises. It is …

[HTML][HTML] California's native trees and their use in the urban forest

CC Pawlak, NLR Love, JM Yost, GA Fricker… - Urban Forestry & Urban …, 2023 - Elsevier
California's urban forest is composed of both native and non-native species. These trees
improve the quality of life of urban residents and mitigate the effects of climate change by …

Selecting and assessing underutilized trees for diverse urban forests: A participatory research approach

DR Hilbert, AK Koeser, LA Roman… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Urban forests provide critical environmental benefits, but the resilience of these socio-
ecological systems to stresses like pest and disease outbreaks relies on tree health and …

Tree species-rich open oak woodlands within scattered urban landscapes promote biodiversity

M Andreas, R Prausová, T Brestovanská… - Urban Forestry & Urban …, 2023 - Elsevier
It is becoming increasingly evident that cities are important places for biodiversity.
Biodiverse urban forests are vital green areas within cities and have favorable impacts on …

Conceptualizing the human drivers of low tree diversity in planted urban landscapes

DR Hilbert, AK Koeser, MG Andreu, G Hansen… - Ambio, 2023 - Springer
Despite the abundance of tree diversity in the natural world, and generally high tree species
richness in urban areas, urban forests continue to be dominated by a limited number of …

Urban Forest Governance in the Face of Pulse Disturbances—Canadian Experiences

CC Konijnendijk, L Nesbitt, Z Wirtz - Arboriculture & Urban Forestry …, 2021 - auf.isa-arbor.com
The sustainable provision of urban forest benefits can be threatened by the occurrence of
sudden, major disturbance events, such as forest fires, insect outbreaks, and extreme …