Global Survey: Climate change now a mainstream part of city planning
An increasing number of cities around the world now include preparations for climate change in their basic urban planning —…
An increasing number of cities around the world now include preparations for climate change in their basic urban planning —…
This multi-purpose mapping tool describes how good management of local ecosystems can reduce the impact of flooding, hurricanes, extreme heat…
Sustainable urban forest management is important to sustain the myriad values associated with urban trees. These values are threatened by…
The City of Dallas covers 396 square miles; it’s the ninth largest in the United States. But it’s also one…
Urban whole tree carbon storage densities average 7.69 kg C m2 of tree cover and sequestration densities average 0.28 kg…
This paper is a review of research in Chicago that linked analyses of vegetation structure with forest functions and values.…
Sacramento County’s 6 million trees store 8 million tons of CO2 (31 t/ha), and annually sequester 238,000 t (0.92 t/ha).…
Trees sequester and store carbon in their tissue at differing rates and amounts based on such factors as tree size…
Field data from 10 USA cities and national urban tree cover data, it is estimated that urban trees in the…
Examines nature’s role in reducing coastal flood risk. The program consists of an approach, a web mapping tool, and a…
NOAA’s tool can help you assess your community’s vulnerability to coastal flooding cause by sea level rise.
Plan’s purpose is to develop place-based stormwater management and flood control strategies and identify implementable climate adaptation action steps for…
The guide takes a step-by-step, watershedbased approach to documenting the costs of flooding; projecting increased flooding and associated costs under…
Provides urban forestry professionals with specific steps to take when preparing for natural disasters. The guide contains 10 key components…
The Urban Forest Action Plan was developed to implement the goals established in the management plan. The goals the action…
Effort to help urban communities assess the vulnerability of their forests and to identify and develop tools to assist in…
This document incorporates adaptation to climate change into program planning and implementation to reduce the vulnerability of Toronto and its…
The Growing a Healthier Community Urban Forestry Analysis utilizes i-Tree Eco to present comparative tree data from four arid communities…
Costs of invasives management will surpass $2 billion for local governments and residents.
An exemplary, if exhaustive, mitigation plan that aims for resiliency through multiple channels — urban trees prominent among them.
State-by-state collection of strategies and practices used by communities to reduce urban heat island effects. Urban trees and green roofs…
EPA reckons that urban heat islands add to higher energy consumption for cooling, increase air pollution, create heat- and pollution-rated…
Chicago’s regional planning organization offers guidance to its member communities on the roles they can play in conserving the region’s…
Annotated list of the various plans, policies, projects and programs through which communities of any size can integrate green infrastructure…