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The Urban Forest

Cultivating Green Infrastructure for People and the Environment

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Editors:
  1. David Pearlmutter

    1. Bona Terra Department of Man in the Desert, Swiss Institute for Dryland Environmental and Energy Research, Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Sede Boqer Campus, Be’er Sheva, Israel

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  2. Carlo Calfapietra

    1. Institute of Agro-Environmental and Forest Biology (IBAF), National Research Council (CNR), Monterotondo (Rome), Porano (TR), Italy

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  3. Roeland Samson

    1. Faculty of Sciences, Department of Bioscience Engineering, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

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  4. Liz O'Brien

    1. Centre for Ecosystems, Society and Biosecurity, Social and Economic Research Group (Forest Research), Surrey, United Kingdom

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  5. Silvija Krajter Ostoić

    1. Department for International Scientific Cooperation in Southeast Europe, Croatian Forest Research Institute, Zagreb, Croatia

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  6. Giovanni Sanesi

    1. Department of Agricultural and Environmental Science, University of Bari, Bari, Italy

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  7. Rocío Alonso del Amo

    1. Ecotoxicology of Air Pollution, CIEMAT, Madrid, Spain

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  • Provides the first comprehensive catalog of tree species that is cross-correlated with the ecosystem services they provide in different regions of Europe
  • Provides a useful classification of the socio-cultural benefits of urban green space, the barriers to their equitable access, and solutions for overcoming them
  • A critical survey of current policy approaches to urban forestry and green infrastructure in Europe
  • A valuable tool for practitioners and policy-makers involved in the planning and management of urban parks and forests

Part of the book series: Future City (FUCI, volume 7)

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Table of contents (24 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxvi
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  2. Environmental Ecosystem Services Provided by Urban Forests and Green Infrastructure

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Introduction: Urban Trees as Environmental Engineers

      • Roeland Samson
      Pages 3-5

    3. The Urban Heat Island: Thermal Comfort and the Role of Urban Greening

      • Jelle A. Hiemstra, Hadas Saaroni, Jorge H. Amorim
      Pages 7-19

    4. Urban Trees and Their Relation to Air Pollution

      • Roeland Samson, Rüdiger Grote, Carlo Calfapietra, Paloma Cariñanos, Silvano Fares, Elena Paoletti et al.
      Pages 21-30

    5. Carbon Sequestration by Urban Trees

      • Silvano Fares, Elena Paoletti, Carlo Calfapietra, Teis N. Mikkelsen, Roeland Samson, Didier Le Thiec
      Pages 31-39

    6. Water Regulation and Purification

      • Urša Vilhar
      Pages 41-47

    7. Soil Quality

      • Miglena Zhiyanski, Maria Sokolovska, Maria Glushkova, Urša Vilhar, Lyudmila Lozanova
      Pages 49-58

    8. Delivery of Goods and Services

      • Abhishek Tiwary, Lucian Dinca, Miglena Zhiyanski
      Pages 59-65

    9. Biodiversity as Support for Ecosystem Services and Human Wellbeing

      • Pedro Pinho, Marco Moretti, Ana Catarina Luz, Filipa Grilo, Joana Vieira, Leena Luís et al.
      Pages 67-78

    10. The Cost of Greening: Disservices of Urban Trees

      • Paloma Cariñanos, Pedro Calaza-Martínez, Liz O’Brien, Carlo Calfapietra
      Pages 79-87

    11. Case Studies: Modeling the Atmospheric Benefits of Urban Greening

      • Ana Isabel Miranda, Helena Martins, Joana Valente, Jorge H. Amorim, Carlos Borrego, Richard Tavares et al.
      Pages 89-99

    12. Assessing the Ecosystem Services Deliverable: The Critical Role of the Urban Tree Inventory

      • Naomi Zürcher
      Pages 101-110

    13. Species-Specific Information for Enhancing Ecosystem Services

      • Roeland Samson, Tine F. Ningal, Abhishek Tiwary, Rüdiger Grote, Silvano Fares, Hadas Saaroni et al.
      Pages 111-144

    14. Conclusions and Recommendations

      • Roeland Samson
      Pages 145-147

  3. Socio-Cultural Services Provided by Urban Forests and Green Infrastructure

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 149-149
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    2. Introduction: Socio-cultural Services of Urban Forests and Green Infrastructure

      • Liz O’Brien
      Pages 151-152

    3. Social and Environmental Justice: Diversity in Access to and Benefits from Urban Green Infrastructure – Examples from Europe

      • Liz O’Brien, Rik De Vreese, Erdoğan Atmiş, Anton Stahl Olafsson, Tuija Sievänen, Michael Brennan et al.
      Pages 153-190

    4. Recreational Use of Urban Green Infrastructure: The Tourist’s Perspective

      • Theano S. Terkenli, Simon Bell, Ivana Živojinović, Jelena Tomićević-Dubljević, Thomas Panagopoulos, Inga Straupe et al.
      Pages 191-216

    5. The Role and Value of Urban Forests and Green Infrastructure in Promoting Human Health and Wellbeing

      • Giuseppe Carrus, Payam Dadvand, Giovanni Sanesi
      Pages 217-230
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About this book

This book focuses on urban "green infrastructure" – the interconnected web of vegetated spaces like street trees, parks and peri-urban forests that provide essential ecosystem services in cities. The green infrastructure approach embodies the idea that these services, such as storm-water runoff control, pollutant filtration and amenities for outdoor recreation, are just as vital for a modern city as those provided by any other type of infrastructure. Ensuring that these ecosystem services are indeed delivered in an equitable and sustainable way requires knowledge of the physical attributes of trees and urban green spaces, tools for coping with the complex social and cultural dynamics, and an understanding of how these factors can be integrated in better governance practices. By conveying the findings and recommendations of COST Action FP1204 GreenInUrbs, this volume summarizes the collaborative efforts of researchers and practitioners from across Europe to address these challenges. 

Editors and Affiliations

  • Bona Terra Department of Man in the Desert, Swiss Institute for Dryland Environmental and Energy Research, Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Sede Boqer Campus, Be’er Sheva, Israel

    David Pearlmutter

  • Institute of Agro-Environmental and Forest Biology (IBAF), National Research Council (CNR), Monterotondo (Rome), Porano (TR), Italy

    Carlo Calfapietra

  • Faculty of Sciences, Department of Bioscience Engineering, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

    Roeland Samson

  • Centre for Ecosystems, Society and Biosecurity, Social and Economic Research Group (Forest Research), Surrey, United Kingdom

    Liz O'Brien

  • Department for International Scientific Cooperation in Southeast Europe, Croatian Forest Research Institute, Zagreb, Croatia

    Silvija Krajter Ostoić

  • Department of Agricultural and Environmental Science, University of Bari, Bari, Italy

    Giovanni Sanesi

  • Ecotoxicology of Air Pollution, CIEMAT, Madrid, Spain

    Rocío Alonso del Amo

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Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Urban Forest

  • Book Subtitle: Cultivating Green Infrastructure for People and the Environment

  • Editors: David Pearlmutter, Carlo Calfapietra, Roeland Samson, Liz O'Brien, Silvija Krajter Ostoić, Giovanni Sanesi, Rocío Alonso del Amo

  • Series Title: Future City

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50280-9

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2017

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-50279-3Published: 07 March 2017

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-84365-0Published: 07 August 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-50280-9Published: 27 February 2017

  • Series ISSN: 1876-0899

  • Series E-ISSN: 1876-0880

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXVI, 351

  • Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 75 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Earth Sciences, general, Life Sciences, general, Environment, general, Social Sciences, general

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