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

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Pearlmutter, David (Editor), Calfapietra, Carlo (Editor), Samson, Roeland (Editor), O'Brien, Liz (Editor), Krajter Ostoić, Silvija (Editor), Sanesi, Giovanni (Editor), Alonso del Amo, Rocío (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Series: Future City, 7
• Subjects: Earth sciences.; Life sciences.; Environment.; Social sciences.; Earth Sciences.; Earth Sciences, general.; Life Sciences, general.; Environment, general.; Social Sciences, general.

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...