Residents’ beliefs about responsibility for the stewardship of park trees and street trees in New York City

Moskell, Christine; Allred, Shorna B.

doi:10.1016/j.landurbplan.2013.08.002

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“…Beliefs regarding trees influence people attitudes (Heberlein, 2012). To believe that trees provide benefits can induce positive attitudes towards trees, but the opposite is also true: to believe that trees can bring problems can induce negative attitudes and justify the above result (Moskell and Broussard Allred, 2013).…”

Section: Logit Models' Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This probably arises from the perception of Black Poplar as a provider of disservices (respiratory allergies). According to Moskell and Allred (2013), to believe that trees are problem causers can induce negative attitudes towards them. Accordingly, results show that most people reject Black Poplar as a street tree and that people who do not like Black Poplar, do not like trees.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Between tree lovers and tree haters. Drivers of public perception regarding street trees and its implications on the urban green infrastructure planning

Fernandes

Silva

Teixeira

et al. 2019

Urban Forestry & Urban Greening

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A R T I C L E I N F O Keywords:Logit models Porto Tree-lined streets design and management Urban forest Urban fabric change A B S T R A C T Street trees can play an important role in the urban green infrastructure (UGI). However, changes in the urban fabric often have perverse effects on the structure, diversity, and performance of street trees, and, consequently, on their perception by the public.This research explores public perception of the current street tree adequacy in a coastal neighborhood of Porto that went through a major densification in its urban fabric during the second half of the 20th century.The research methodology included: i) a survey to evaluate public perception of tree services and disservices, and public perception of the adequacy of street trees in the study area; and ii) two Logit models relating public perception of tree services with the characteristics of respondents and streets.96% of the respondents self-reported as tree lovers. However, more than 30% found the street trees of the study area inadequate to the present urban fabric and 5% have already made a complaint to the municipality.Characteristics of respondents and streets affect respondent's perceptions. Education plays a key role in the acknowledgment of tree services. Older respondents are more likely to perceive trees as dangerous. Respondents who live on streets dominated by Black Poplar are more likely to dislike trees.Results implications on UGI planning and design advise an adjustment of tree dimensions to street dimensions, an increase in street tree diversity, and an improved street planting design. Results also suggest that an investment in education and information could lead to conflict mitigation. among green spaces, contributing to a more cohesive Urban Green Infrastructure (UGI) .While in the past, street trees have been essentially perceived as decorative elements (Sanesi and Chiarello, 2006), nowadays their environmental, economic, social and aesthetical services have been increasingly acknowledged (Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, 2005;Seamans, 2013). However, the positive attributes of street trees are not the only ones perceived by people. In the streets, trees live alongside with people and buildings, which increases the opportunities for negative interactions (Dandy, 2010). The costs of maintenance, the potential damages to urban infrastructures, the produced green waste and the allergies caused by pollinating can lead people to complain and to feel that, somehow, trees are inappropriate (Rotherham, 2010;Escobedo et al., 2011).Over the years, several studies about public perception, attitudes and opinions regarding street trees were conducted to understand what drives

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Section: Logit Models' Resultsmentioning

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Between tree lovers and tree haters. Drivers of public perception regarding street trees and its implications on the urban green infrastructure planning

Fernandes

Silva

Teixeira

et al. 2019

Urban Forestry & Urban Greening

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“…Some planting initiatives also appear to depend on broad public involvement, as they rely in part on residential and other private land owners for providing planting sites and subsequent tree maintenance [27,74]. In a future where the management responsibilities for urban street trees shifts further from the municipal to the individual level, long-term success may well depend on a sustained shift in public attitudes regarding responsibilities for urban tree stewardship [75] and on improved participatory democracy in the form of a greater/more formal integration of volunteers into city management functions [9]. Similarly, given that funding for the maintenance of urban trees is often considered inadequate [8,52] and likely to be further reduced in many areas in the context of fiscal austerity [7,74,76], our methodology prompts the user to consider whether current planting strategies and techniques are sufficient to ensure that street trees planted today could survive in a future where maintenance budgets were virtually non-existent.…”

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Delivering a Multi-Functional and Resilient Urban Forest

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Tree planting is widely advocated and applied in urban areas, with large-scale projects underway in cities globally. Numerous potential benefits are used to justify these planting campaigns. However, reports of poor tree survival raise questions about the ability of such projects to deliver on their promises over the long-term. Each potential benefit requires different supporting conditions-relating not only to the type and placement of the tree, but also to the broader urban system within which it is embedded. This set of supporting conditions may not always be mutually compatible and may not persist for the lifetime of the tree. Here, we demonstrate a systems-based approach that makes these dependencies, synergies, and tensions more explicit, allowing them to be used to test the decadal-scale resilience of urban street trees. Our analysis highlights social, environmental, and economic assumptions that are implicit within planting projects; notably that high levels of maintenance and public support for urban street trees will persist throughout their natural lifespan, and that the surrounding built form will remain largely unchanged. Whilst the vulnerability of each benefit may be highly context specific, we identify approaches that address some typical weaknesses, making a functional, resilient, urban forest more attainable.

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“…private arborists were "in love with them" and the general public ranged some "scared of trees" and others "sanguine" (Kirkpatrick et al, 2013a;Kirkpatrick et al, 2013b). In NYC, the stewardship of trees was perceived by the majority respondents to be the responsibility of the government or that of multiple stewardship groups (Moskell and Allred, 2013 (Keeley et al, 2013) as well as socio-demographic and childhood environmental background (Fernandez-Canero et al, 2013).…”

Section: Social Impacts Of Gi/lidmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Meng²,

DiGiovanni³

et al. 2014

Water Environment Research

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This review on Sustainability covers selected 2013 publications on the focus of Sustainability. It is divided into the following sections:  • Sustainable water and wastewater utilities  • Sustainable water resources management  • Stormwater and green infrastructure  • Sustainability in wastewater treatment  • Life cycle assessment (LCA) applications  • Sustainability and energy in wastewater industry,  • Sustainability and infrastructure  • Sustainability and asset management

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Residents’ beliefs about responsibility for the stewardship of park trees and street trees in New York City

Cited by 54 publications

References 28 publications

Between tree lovers and tree haters. Drivers of public perception regarding street trees and its implications on the urban green infrastructure planning

Between tree lovers and tree haters. Drivers of public perception regarding street trees and its implications on the urban green infrastructure planning

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