2016
DOI: 10.3390/f7090208
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Urban Forest Indicators for Planning and Designing Future Forests

Abstract: 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… Show more

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“…In the literature, it appears that there are many indicators that express the criteria. In the case of forestry, these are indicators that are able to characterize the reference urban context to which the intervention reverts [17], and to express ecosystemic services of ecological-environmental [33][34][35], economic, social, and cultural [36] type. Some indicators (e.g., number of inhabitants, accessibility, absence of heavy industry and road infrastructure, absence of recreation facilities, texture classes, presence of forests) are objective, and can be recognized and measured on the basis of detailed information regarding the reference urban context; on the other hand, the remaining indicators can be measured using an ordinal values scale, by assigning to each of them a score according to the capacity of an EIP that includes urban forestry, to generate economic-environmental repercussions in the territory.…”
Section: Set Of Criteria For the Selection Of Sites To Be Renewed Witmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In the literature, it appears that there are many indicators that express the criteria. In the case of forestry, these are indicators that are able to characterize the reference urban context to which the intervention reverts [17], and to express ecosystemic services of ecological-environmental [33][34][35], economic, social, and cultural [36] type. Some indicators (e.g., number of inhabitants, accessibility, absence of heavy industry and road infrastructure, absence of recreation facilities, texture classes, presence of forests) are objective, and can be recognized and measured on the basis of detailed information regarding the reference urban context; on the other hand, the remaining indicators can be measured using an ordinal values scale, by assigning to each of them a score according to the capacity of an EIP that includes urban forestry, to generate economic-environmental repercussions in the territory.…”
Section: Set Of Criteria For the Selection Of Sites To Be Renewed Witmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The changing face of urban forest management and consultation is further investigated by Barron et al [4] in their contribution to the Special Issue that looks at the disconnect between what we as urban forest managers or researchers measure and monitor and what we actually expect or want urban forests to deliver. With greater management and public demands from our urban forests comes the need for clear indicators of performance that can track progress and the success or failure of initiatives and interventions.…”
Section: Human-tree Interactions In An Urbanised Societymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…With greater management and public demands from our urban forests comes the need for clear indicators of performance that can track progress and the success or failure of initiatives and interventions. Barron et al [4] tackle this issue using the Delphi method to rank issues and indicators that international urban forest managers or researchers regarded as important, followed by targeted interviews with Canadian urban forest professionals. The study noted that many indicators regarded as being of "high importance" are not being measured in many municipal urban forestry programs, particularly social indicators of human health and well-being.…”
Section: Human-tree Interactions In An Urbanised Societymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…For example, indicators related to urban forest management and planning have been grouped into vegetation type, community framework, and resource management [8,14]. Furthermore, in this practical context it is possible that indicators, such as, for example, canopy cover, can be used to target a specific goal but also to measure performance once a plan is put in place [19].…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%