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

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Pearlmutter, David (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Calfapietra, Carlo (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Samson, Roeland (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), O'Brien, Liz (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Krajter Ostoić, Silvija (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Sanesi, Giovanni (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Alonso del Amo, Rocío (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Σειρά: Future City, 7
• Θέματα: 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...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 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. .