Wild Urban Woodlands New Perspectives for Urban Forestry /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Kowarik, Ingo (Editor), Körner, Stefan (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2005.
• Subjects: Earth sciences.; Geobiology.; Geography.; Regional planning.; Urban planning.; Landscape ecology.; Geoecology.; Environmental geology.; Ecotoxicology.; Earth Sciences.; Biogeosciences.; Geography, general.; Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning.; Landscape Ecology.; Geoecology/Natural Processes.

The outstanding social and ecological roles of urban forests in the growth of cities has become widely known. In many parts of the world, despite or even because of continuing suburbanization, initiatives are being put forth to preserve urban forests, to develop them further and to make them acc- si...