Connecting Trees with People - Synergistic Strategies for Growing the Urban Forest

Written from the perspective of an urban forester and certified arborist, the reader will have a basic understanding of what makes a tree a tree in context to the philosophical and cultural underpinnings of Urban and Community Forestry, and learn how to implement model, time-tested global green practices and initiatives derived from citizen science.

List of contents

Preface.- Acknowledgements.- Chapter 1. Introducing the tree.- Chapter 2. The Urban Forest: from oxymoron to critical resource.- Chapter 3. The great tree migration: from forest to city center.- Chapter 4. Growing the Urban and Community Forest Today for the City of Tomorrow: connecting our trees and their needs to their human associates.- Chapter 5. The Global Experience in Green Participatory Place-making: a worldwide sampling of Urban and Community Forest connectivity.- Chapter 6. Making a difference - questions asked and questions answered.- Index.

About the author

Naomi Zürcher is an Urban Forester, an ISA Certified Consulting Arborist and an affiliate member of the USA I Tree team in Luzern, Switzerland.   

Product details

• Authors: Naomi Zürcher
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.06.2023
• EAN: 9783030945367
• ISBN: 978-3-0-3094536-7
• No. of pages: 200
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 10 mm x 235 mm
• Illustrations: XXIII, 200 p. 1 illus.
• Series: Future City
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology