The Urban Forest

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

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. 

• Urban green infrastructure
• Urban forests
• Ecosystem services
• Socio-cultural amenities
• Green governance

• 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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