Criteria and Indicators for Strategic Urban Forest Planning and Management

Kenney, W. A.; Wassenaer, Philip van; Satel, Alexander

doi:10.48044/jauf.2011.015

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“…Using GIS-based mapping of social (eg social vulnerability, access to greenspace) and ecological (eg stormwater runoff, surface temperature) data helps to site UGI where the greatest social vulnerability overlaps with cooccurring climate-change hazards, although trade-offs are sometimes unavoidable (Meerow and Newell 2017). Diversity, connectivity, and regenerative ability are other ecological resilience traits commonly considered in UGI planning (Kenney et al 2011;Brandt et al 2016;Zhang et al 2019). While even simple inventories of such traits can enable planning for more resilient UGI (eg Brandt et al 2016), GIS-based mapping facilitates more holistic SES-based planning, and for example has been applied to increase the connectivity of urban parks while also promoting social and ecological benefits such as pedestrian paths, educational signage, stormwater management, and mitigation of the heat-island effect (Zhang et al 2019).…”

Section: Systems-based Planning Of Ugi For Urban Resiliencementioning

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Green infrastructure for urban resilience: a trait‐based framework

Reynolds

Mincey

Montoya

et al. 2021

Frontiers in Ecol & Environ

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I ncreasing societal impacts of climate change -including heat stress, flooding, disease outbreaks, and food supply shocks, among other disruptive factors -have made planning for urban resilience a priority (Revi et al. 2014). Like all human communities, urban areas are social-ecological systems (SES), composed of humans and their social capital (eg networks, institutions, norms), built capital (eg buildings, equipment, products), and natural capital (natural biophysical factors) (Costanza et al. 2012). We consider urban resilience to be an urban area's capacity to sustain functioning and well-being in response to disturbance, including the ability for its socialecological subsystems to buffer, adapt, or transform (Davidson et al. 2016). This definition reflects convergence in the resilience literature toward social-ecological resilience and its more dynamic and evolutionary themes (Davidson et al. 2016).Urban areas around the world are seeking to promote resilience to climate change through green infrastructure (Demuzere et al. 2014), which refers to networks of greenspaces managed for their benefits (Benedict and McMahon 2006;Allen 2012). From curbside gardens to green roofs, urban green infrastructure (UGI) encompasses diverse scales and forms and provides numerous ecosystem services valued at billions of dollars per year, including flood control, cooling, food production, and mitigation of air and water pollution (Gómez-Baggethun and Barton 2013). In addition, UGI can profoundly impact social capital by providing spaces for socializing, relaxation, and recreation, and through varied education and economic opportunities, among other cultural ecosystem services (Lovell and Taylor 2013). Green infrastructure runs largely on solar energy captured by photosynthesis, typically making it less polluting and more carbon neutral than human-built "gray infrastructure", which is often powered by combustion of fossil fuels. These qualities of UGI can contribute to more sustainable, carbon-conserving systems. What qualities of UGI promote resilience of urban SES?We reason that UGI contributes to urban resilience through traits (ie surrogates; Carpenter et al. 2005) that support properties (ie buffering, adaptability, transformability) of resilient systems (Darnhofer et al. 2016). To identify such traits, we conducted literature searches using Google Scholar and keywords such as "social-ecological system resilience", "complex adaptive system resilience", and "urban resilience". Within this literature, we focused on publications that sought first principles of resilience through traits relating to system structure or reproducibility. A handful of such traits -diversity, redundancy,

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Section: Systems-based Planning Of Ugi For Urban Resiliencementioning

confidence: 99%

Green infrastructure for urban resilience: a trait‐based framework

Reynolds

Mincey

Montoya

et al. 2021

Frontiers in Ecol & Environ

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“…Unlike sample inventories, an inventory that is consistently updated allows urban forest managers to detect problems and manage proactively. The central principle guiding such adaptive approaches as that outlined in Kenney et al (2011) is an integrated, strategic, and forward-thinking tactic that transcends operational activities and considers the full magnitude of the urban forest's impacts.…”

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Urban forest management in small Ontario municipalities

BarkerE.

KenneyW.

2012

The Forestry Chronicle

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Urban forestry has emerged as an important and timely discipline in an urbanizing world. The practice of urban forestry has focused mainly on large urban centres but urban forests in small municipalities provide the same benefits to the residents within and around them. Small municipalities face many challenges similar to those in urban centres but a lack of resources may worsen the negative effects on small municipalities. Urban forestry in Ontario is undertaken by municipalities with little involvement from upper-level governments. Thus, the effectiveness of urban forestry in Ontario is inconsistent and sporadic, with many small municipalities unable to manage urban forests optimally. Ontario's legislative framework governing urban forestry is critiqued and compared to the system employed in the United States. Recommendations are provided for action toward a centralized urban forestry program in Ontario.

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“…Remote sensing data is also a valuable tool for evaluating forest damage caused by tropical cyclones over very large areas (Wang et al, 2010). Granted, aerial UTC assessment approaches are currently limited in their ability to assess age structure and species composition (Leff, 2016) and may not necessarily reflect the condition of trees (Kenney et al, 2011). Nevertheless, this approach can provide extensive spatial and temporal data about the urban forest for researchers and managers.…”

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The Legacy of Hurricanes, Historic Land Cover, and Municipal Ordinances on Urban Tree Canopy in Florida (United States)

Salisbury

Koeser

Hauer

et al. 2022

Front. For. Glob. Change

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Urban Tree Canopy (UTC) greatly enhances the livability of cities by reducing urban heat buildup, mitigating stormwater runoff, and filtering airborne particulates, among other ecological services. These benefits, combined with the relative ease of measuring tree cover from aerial imagery, have led many cities to adopt management strategies based on UTC goals. In this study, we conducted canopy analyses for 300 cities in Florida to assess the impacts of development practices, urban forest ordinances, and hurricanes on tree cover. Within the cities sampled, UTC ranged from 5.9 to 68.7% with a median canopy coverage of 32.3% Our results indicate that the peak gust speeds recorded during past hurricanes events were a significant predictor of canopy coverage (P = 0.001) across the sampled cities. As peak gust speeds increased from 152 km/h (i.e., a lower-intensity Category 1 storm) to 225 km/h (lower-intensity Category 4 and the maximum gusts captured in our data), predicted canopy in developed urban areas decreased by 7.7%. Beyond the impacts of hurricanes and tropical storms, we found that historic landcover and two out of eight urban forest ordinances were significant predictors of existing canopy coverage (P-landcover < 0.001; P-tree preservation ordinance = 0.02, P-heritage tree ordinance = 0.03). Results indicate that some local policies and tree protections can potentially impact urban tree canopy, even in the face of rapid development and periodic natural disturbances.

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Criteria and Indicators for Strategic Urban Forest Planning and Management

Cited by 98 publications

References 3 publications

Green infrastructure for urban resilience: a trait‐based framework

Green infrastructure for urban resilience: a trait‐based framework

Urban forest management in small Ontario municipalities

The Legacy of Hurricanes, Historic Land Cover, and Municipal Ordinances on Urban Tree Canopy in Florida (United States)

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