NIST Community Resilience Planning Guide
While more and more organizations – domestic and international, public and private – are promoting community resilience to lower disaster tolls, transforming…
A Dose-Response Curve Describing the Relationship Between Urban Tree Cover Density and Self-Reported Stress Recovery
Although it is well established that viewing nature can help individuals recover from a stressful experience, the dose-response curve describing…
Remotely-sensed imagery vs. eye-level photography: Evaluating associations among measurements of tree cover density
The easy availability and widespread use of remotely-sensed imagery, especially Google Earth satellite imagery, makes it simple for urban forestry…
Social Life Under Cover: Tree Canopy and Social Capital in Baltimore, Maryland
To what extent does the density of the tree cover in a city relate to the amount of social capital…
Impacts of views to school landscapes on recovery from stress and mental fatigue
Previous research has demonstrated positive associations between the greenness of high school landscapes and school-wide academic performance. We do not…
Making Your Community Forest-Friendly: A Worksheet for Review of Municipal Codes and Ordinances August 2018
This worksheet was designed to help communities review and revise their development regulations, so that future projects conserve and protect…
Branching Out to Residential Lands: Missions and Strategies of Five Tree Distribution Programs
Residential lands constitute a major component of existing and possible tree canopy in many cities in the United States. To expand…
Metrics for Inclusive and Sustainable Cities
Yale University’s Samuel Center for Social Connectiveness has developed a comprehensive set of metrics by which cities can measure both…
Implementing and managing urban forests: A much needed conservation strategy to increase ecosystem services and urban wellbeing
Planting more trees in potential tree cover areas could nearly double the benefits provided by the urban forest. In 2016…
Development Practices and Ordinances as Predictor of Tree Canopy
This study compared the management practices and ordinances enacted by 43 Florida communities to assess their potential impact on tree…
Designing Green Infrastructure in Ultra-Urban Environments
The City and County of Denver is making green infrastructure a fundamental part of the city’s long-term stormwater management strategy by…
Urban Environmental Stewardship Practices as Indicators of Social Resilience: The Case of Living Memorials
The authors studied living memorials and interviewed volunteers and participants in building out the sites. They concluded that stewardship practices…
Guide to Creating Fire Adapted Communities
The Fire Adapted Community program envisions a collaborative, iterative approach where residents, communities, and governments work to identify and implement…
Everything’s Changing: Can Your Urban Forest Thrive?
Yes! If you work at it. This interview with Karen Zumach, Director of Community Forestry at the Tree Trust, St.…
CalFire’s Comprehensive Approach to Mitigating the Effects of Wildfire
As one of the nation’s most wildfire-prone states, it’s not surprising that California also manages one of the most sophisticated…
The Power of Place in Dealing with Grief after Disasters
Encompassing new content on the treatment of grief, loss, and bereavement, the updated and revised fifth edition of this gold-standard…
Toledo’s Stormwater Credit Manual
A revised stormwater credit guide for the City of Toledo, OH that lists forested buffers as an eligible management practice…
Tree Pit Infiltration Capacity: Effects of Different Design and Management Strategies
Water infiltration rate was measured at forty tree pits representing the variety of physical conditions commonly seen in New York…
The Role of Trees in Stormwater Management
Up-to-date primary source outlining opportunities and barriers to using trees in stormwater management — related to arboricultural, institutional and organizational…
Standing guard around trees to increase stormwater infiltration
Provides a review of research in NYC looking at infiltration rates of stormwater into tree pit soil having a guard…
Best Practices for Urban Residential Tree Planting Programs
Adding trees to private residential properties is critical to accomplishing urban greening goals, such as ambitious tree canopy cover targets.…
Missions and Strategies of Five Tree Planting Programs in the US
Tree canopy in most communities grows on private land. Both public and non-profit organizations have tried multiple strategies to promoting…
Accounting for Trees in Stormwater Management
This paper is intended to help the stormwater engineering community more easily account for trees in runoff and pollutant load calculations…
Worksheet for Review of Municipal Codes and Ordinances
This worksheet was designed to help communities review and revise their development regulations, so that future projects conserve and protect valuable…
Trees Reduce Heat Island Effect … and Save Lives
A rigorous study of green space and heat-related deaths in Ho Chi Minh City suggests that every 1-square kilometer increase in…