Advancing social equity in urban tree planting: Lessons learned from an integrative review of the literature

G Myers, LE Mullenbach, JD Jolley, BB Cutts… - Urban Forestry & Urban …, 2023 - Elsevier
Social equity has become a growing emphasis in urban tree planting programs, with
multiple cities across the world aiming to reduce racial/ethnic and socio-economic …

[HTML][HTML] Blue carbon science, management and policy across a tropical urban landscape

DA Friess, YM Gatt, TK Fung, JB Alemu… - Landscape and Urban …, 2023 - Elsevier
The ability of vegetated coastal ecosystems to sequester high rates of “blue” carbon over
millennial time scales has attracted the interest of national and international policy makers …

Keys to better planning and integrating urban tree planting initiatives

R Sousa-Silva, M Duflos, CO Barona… - Landscape and Urban …, 2023 - Elsevier
Urban tree planting initiatives have been blooming worldwide to help tackle climate change
and nurture healthy living environments for people and biodiversity. Many initiatives are …

Why don't people plant trees? Uncovering barriers to participation in urban tree planting initiatives

E Riedman, LA Roman, H Pearsall, M Maslin… - Urban Forestry & Urban …, 2022 - Elsevier
Urban tree cover is inequitable in many American cities, with low-income and non-white
neighborhoods typically having the least coverage. Some municipal and non-profit tree …

Visualizing evaluation model of human perceptions and characteristic indicators of landscape visual quality in urban green spaces by using nomograms

B Ma, RJ Hauer, C Xu, W Li - Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, 2021 - Elsevier
Understanding human perceptions and quantifying parameters that characterize landscape
visual quality in an urban green space is important to describe these connections. Within this …

Unmanned aerial systems for modelling air pollution removal by urban greenery

V Kašpar, M Zapletal, P Samec, J Komárek… - Urban Forestry & Urban …, 2022 - Elsevier
Urban greenery plays an important role in reducing air pollution, being one of the often-
used, nature-based measures in sustainable and climate-resilient urban development …

Exploring links between resident satisfaction and participation in an urban tree planting initiative

AF Coleman, TS Eisenman, DH Locke, RW Harper - Cities, 2023 - Elsevier
Street-facing trees have been cited as providing a vast range of environmental benefits and
also a contributing factor to community livability and quality of life. One measure of well …

[HTML][HTML] Monitoring canopy quality and improving equitable outcomes of urban tree planting using LiDAR and machine learning

J Francis, M Disney, S Law - Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, 2023 - Elsevier
Urban tree canopies are fundamental to mitigating the impacts of climate change within
cities as well as providing a range of other important ecosystem, health, and amenity …

Pursuit of environmental justice in urban forest planning and practice

A Grant, AA Millward, S Edge - Frontiers in Sustainable Cities, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Introduction There is a growing demand for urban forest management that prioritizes
genuine community involvement, acknowledges power imbalances within society, and …

Residents' roles as environmental policy actors using an urban governance framework: A case study of a tree planting program

NA Geron, DG Martin, J Rogan, M Healy - Cities, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Many North American cities are pursuing tree planting as part of their climate
mitigation policies. Tree planting initiatives (TPI) are decentralized environmental programs …