Urban Tree Management

Urban Tree Management is the careful care and organizing tree populations in urban settings for the purpose of improving the urban environment. Urban tree management advocates the role of trees as a critical part of the urban infrastructure. Urban foresters plant and maintain trees, support appropriate tree and forest preservation, conduct research and promote the many benefits trees provide. Urban tree management is practiced by municipal and commercial arborists, municipal and utility foresters, environmental policymakers, city planners, consultants, educators, researchers and community activists. It contains tree selection, planting, care and protection and the overall management of trees as a collective resource. Urban Tree Management designates their benefits and describes their effects on quality of urban life and well-being facets that are increasingly important in these times of progressing urbanization. First chapter presents a simulation model to predict the future availability of native hollow-bearing trees in a rapidly expanding urban landscape. Second chapter explores on the role of trees in improving the urban landscape. The purpose of third chapter is to describe how diverse stakeholders can use urban tree canopy (UTC) Assessment and Prioritization tools to collaboratively achieve urban sustainability goals. Fourth chapter will look at the key research studies and how they have been used to justify and focus urban forestry programming. Fifth chapter presents an approach on urban forest inventory and we present in sixth chapter the Planted Tree Re-Inventory Protocol for citizen science-based monitoring of recently-planted urban trees. Seventh chapter explores on a technical guide to urban and community forestry. The purpose of the eighth chapter is to assess what it means to meet the four CARS measures and the purpose of ninth chapter is to further the thinking around urban-forest sustainability and to reveal alternative interpretations of the concept. In tenth chapter, we examine potential inequities associated with the distribution of urban tree cover in relationship to race/ethnicity and income. In eleventh chapter, we assessed the effect of land cover conversion from forest to a variety of urban land covers on vegetation dynamics. In twelfth chapter, we present an approach to assessing ecosystem service supply and demand in a spatially-explicit manner focusing on carbon storage and sequestration provided by urban trees. Thirteenth chapter highlights on urban tree effects on soil organic carbon and last chapter aims to evaluate the contribution of street trees to canopy.