The potential of tree planting to climate-proof high density residential areas in Manchester, UK

Hall, Justine Michelle; Handley, John; Ennos, A. Roland

doi:10.1016/j.landurbplan.2011.11.015

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“…Fortunately, much recent research in urban forestry provides design directions to optimize these indicators [2][3][4][5][6][7][8]10]. We can use this research to make design choices that optimize storm water management (leaf area index, thresholds for impervious surface area), habitat provision (ideal patch sizes, connectivity corridors), air quality improvement (low VOC species, tree location near pollution sources), and greenhouse gas storage and sequestration (tree location to cool buildings, tree location to enhance physical activity).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…One important aspect of a city's functioning is in its urban forest. Urban forests provide a wide range of benefits, from ecosystem services [1][2][3], climate change adaptation [4,5] and climate change mitigation [6][7][8], to improvement in human health and well-being [9][10][11] Unfortunately, in many places in the world, urban forests are rapidly being lost to create residential spaces for the global migration to cities [12,13]. Urban forests are also threatened by changing climate, including spreading pests and diseases, changes to precipitation, and increased storm events.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Urban Forest Indicators for Planning and Designing Future Forests

Barron

Sheppard

Condon

2016

Forests

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This paper describes a research project exploring future urban forests. This study uses a Delphi approach to develop a set of key indicators for healthy, resilient urban forests. Two groups of experts participated in the Delphi survey: International academics and local practitioners. The results of the Delphi indicate that "urban tree diversity" and "physical access to nature" are indicators of high importance. "Tree risk" and "energy conservation" were rated as indicators of relatively low importance. Results revealed some differences between academics and practitioners in terms of their rating of the indicators. The research shows that some indicators rated as high importance are not necessarily the ones measured or promoted by many municipal urban forestry programs. In particular, social indicators of human health and well-being were rated highly by participants, but not routinely measured by urban forestry programs.

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Section: Structural Indicators Functional Indicatorsmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Urban Forest Indicators for Planning and Designing Future Forests

Barron

Sheppard

Condon

2016

Forests

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“…Through increased infiltration and higher evapotranspiration, vegetation cover in the city cools the atmosphere, and reduces blue water flows (Coutts et al 2012). Theoretically, UA thus has a positive effect on water and energy flows compared to built-up surfaces, but trees or other plants with high LAI are expected to be much more effective in mitigating the heat island effect of cities or controlling peak water flows (Coutts et al 2012;Hall et al 2012), also because most crops can only exert temporary effects on their environment. Nevertheless, Whittinghill et al (2014) recently documented that vegetable producing extensive green roofs had a similar water retention capacity than more conventional Sedum green roofs.…”

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Potential ecosystem services of urban agriculture: a review

Aerts

Dewaelheyns

Achten

2016

Preprint

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Urban agriculture (UA) is increasingly proposed as an environmentally friendly answer to global challenges including urbanization, public health, food security and climate change. We provide an overview of present evidence of ecosystem services delivered by UA that could potentially increase the sustainability of the urban ecosystem, including the often claimed reduced greenhouse gas emissions. There is general agreement that UA is important for local food production, especially in the south; that UA has a role in regulating green and blue water flows, organic waste flows and pollination; and that UA has important socio-cultural values, including an improved quality of city life and increased local community capacity. There is some evidence that UA may also improve human health because of dietary changes in certain social classes, but these are potentially confounded by environmental pollution in the city. Quantitative evidence is very limited for all ecosystem services, but the available data nevertheless suggests that the overall food productivity and the total reductions in greenhouse gas emission are low at global or city-wide scale despite the fact that UA has potential strong effects on food security at the local scale. The current eagerness of industrialized cities to integrate UA into their food policies as an approach to become "climate neutral" or to rely on ecosystem services to become more resilient calls for life cycle assessment studies that accurately quantify emission reductions and other urban ecosystem services of urban agriculture.

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“…They mostly concern regulating ecosystem services [17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31] and cultural ecosystem services [32][33][34][35][36][37]. Biodiversity is also a frequent object of the studies [27,[38][39][40][41][42][43][44].…”

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Temporal Changes in Ecosystem Services in European Cities in the Continental Biogeographical Region in the Period from 1990–2012

Szumacher¹,

Pabjanek²

2017

Sustainability

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Ecosystem services (ES) in cities and surrounding suburban areas are one of the major factors which guarantee quality of life. Most studies directly referring to urban ecosystem services are conducted on a local scale or for selected cities. There are few studies which focus on temporal changes of the provision of ecosystem services across a large number of cities. This paper analyzes selected land use type (forest, green urban area), soil sealing, selected ecosystem services (food provisioning, climate regulation, recreation), and biodiversity potential in 85 large cities (over 100,000 citizens) from the Continental (Central and Eastern) biogeographical region in Europe. We used the Corine Land (2) The process of soil sealing growth occurred in all studied cities and the rate was the most intense in Polish cities; (3) There was a decrease of food production and biodiversity potential in all the analyzed cities; (4) climate regulating services experienced only slight changes; (5) There was a very positive trend of the recreation indicator in most core zones of the cities in Germany and several cities in the Czech Republic, Poland, and Denmark. Moreover, our results of the temporal changes of land use and ES in European cities in the Continental biogeographical region indicate how important it is to monitor CLC and ES for potential spatial planning and regional policy interventions.

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The potential of tree planting to climate-proof high density residential areas in Manchester, UK

Cited by 73 publications

References 38 publications

Urban Forest Indicators for Planning and Designing Future Forests

Urban Forest Indicators for Planning and Designing Future Forests

Potential ecosystem services of urban agriculture: a review

Temporal Changes in Ecosystem Services in European Cities in the Continental Biogeographical Region in the Period from 1990–2012

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