Communities nationwide contain natural areas such as forest patches. Maintaining and restoring urban forest patches can provide life-saving regional cooling, especially in vulnerable communities, during extreme heat. Forest patches can also help improve human health and well-being and climate resilience. From an ecological perspective, the health of these patches cannot be considered in isolation. Forests across gradients are integrated and interdependent; their health is codependent, and society’s health is dependent on all forests, no matter where we live. Forest patches are critical to any sustainability plan, from local to national scales. Patches relate to climate resilience, public health, social justice, community well-being, and more.
Keywords: forest patches, Urban forestry, forests, climate resilience, public health, social justice, community well-being, casestudies
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