The Baltimore Wood Project: A Comprehensive Workbook
This workbook captures the full “Baltimore experience” and distills it into lessons applicable to any community attempting to turn wood…
London Trees Save the City Billions
A new report from Britain’s Office of National Statistics estimates tree cover saved the capital more than 5 billion pounds…
Urban Trees Increase Home Values
A study of the relationship between urban trees and the sales price of nearby single-family homes found that — in…
Reclaiming Lumber from Wood Waste
An early and incisive analysis of rethinking how communities approach the issue of wood waste: lose it [in landfills] or…
Quantified Ventures: The Business Case for Using Local, Fresh-Cut Wood
This report explores the viability of investing in an urban wood processing center in the city of Baltimore. While the…
Tree Box Filters Promote Neighborhood Revitalization
To rejuvenate an uninhabited parcel adjacent to Hartsfield-Atlanta airport, the City of College Park planned to create a new business…
Funding Trees for Health: An Analysis of Funding and Policy Options for Local Governments
American cities spend less than a third of a percent of municipal budgets on tree planting and maintenance, and as…
Santa Monica – The Value of Trees Video
A dynamic video connecting the overall value of trees, both tangible and intangible, to the complexities of urban forest management in…
Business District Streetscapes, Trees, and Consumer Response
Trees positively affect judgments of visual quality but, more significantly, may influence other consumer responses and behaviors. Survey respondents from…
The Influence of Trees and Landscaping on Rental Rates
This study investigates the effect of trees and landscaping on office rental rates, based on a comparison of 85 office…
Shade trees reduce building energy use and CO2 emissions from power plants
Urban shade trees offer significant benefits in reducing building air-conditioning demand and improving urban air quality by reducing smog. The…
Local Economics
Trees in cities are not grown and managed for products that can be bought and sold on markets, but they…
Public Value of Urban Forests
Scientific understanding of how urban trees, forests and green space benefit people has expanded substantially in recent years to include…
Economic Value of Urban Forests
The presence of larger trees in yards and as street trees can add from 3% to 15% to home values…
The Effect of Forest Conservation Regulation on Property Values
This study suggests that existing regulations on forested real estate provide some potential cost benefits to the development of mixed-use residential housing…
It’s Okay to Be Average
In East Portland, the average tree count and average nearby tree canopy adds roughly $8,870 to the value of the…
Harvesting the Value of Water: Stormwater, Green Infrastructure and Real Estate
For developers and builders, managing the impact of stormwater is a given: the law requires it. But increasingly, they’ve ceased…
What’s The Value of a Tree?
Trees grow property values, but only up to a point. This meta-analysis suggests that property-level tree cover at about 30%,…
Louisville Urban Tree Canopy Assessment
Assessment includes aerial photography and remote imagery, relationship between tree canopy to socio-demographic and economic data, location of areas of…
Best Management Practices for Community Trees — The Gulf Coast
Guide for community trees in Louisiana. Includes tree cost and benefit information, best management practices, tree selection, planting and maintenance,…
Great Lakes Guide to Green Infrastructure as a Flood Management Tool
The guide takes a step-by-step, watershedbased approach to documenting the costs of flooding; projecting increased flooding and associated costs under…
Low Impact Development Guide for Puget Sound
Provides stormwater managers and site designers with a common understanding of LID goals, objectives, specifications for individual practices, and flow…
Municipal Sustainability Plan in Philadelphia
The Greenworks initiative, begun in 2009, set a new vision and ambitious goals in 2016.
Vibrant Cities & Urban Forests _ A National Call to Action
Twenty-five leaders from all sectors of urban forestry met in a forum to identify needs and opportunities for urban forestry…
Trees Grow Property Values
Hedonic pricing studies capture added value, and potential increase in tax base.