Download or read book Carbon Dioxide Reduction Through Urban Forestry written by E. Gregory McPherson and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Carbon Dioxide Reduction Through Urban Forestry written by E. Gregory McPherson and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Carbon Dioxide Reduction Through Urban Forestry written by E. Gregory McPherson and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Carbon Dioxide Reduction Through Urban Forestry Guidellines for Professional and Volunteer Tree Planters written by E. Gregory McPherson and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Carbon Dioxide Reduction Through Urban Forestry written by E. Gregory McPherson and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Assessing Urban Forest Effects and Values written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An analysis of trees in Washington, D.C. reveals that this city has about 1,928,000 trees with canopies that cover 28.6 percent of the area. The most common tree species are American beech, red maple, and boxelder. The urban forest currently store about 526,000 tons of carbon valued at $9.7 million. In addition, these trees remove about 16,200 tons of carbon per year ($299,000 per year) and about 540 tons of air pollution per year ($2.5 million per year). The structural, or compensatory, value is estimated at $3.6 billion. Information on the structure and functions of the urban forest can be used to improve and augment support for urban forest management programs and to integrate urban forests within plans to improve environmental quality in the Washington, D.C. area.
Download or read book Chicago s Urban Forest Ecosystem written by E. Gregory McPherson and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Urban Forest written by David Pearlmutter and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-02-27 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on urban "green infrastructure" – the interconnected web of vegetated spaces like street trees, parks and peri-urban forests that provide essential ecosystem services in cities. The green infrastructure approach embodies the idea that these services, such as storm-water runoff control, pollutant filtration and amenities for outdoor recreation, are just as vital for a modern city as those provided by any other type of infrastructure. Ensuring that these ecosystem services are indeed delivered in an equitable and sustainable way requires knowledge of the physical attributes of trees and urban green spaces, tools for coping with the complex social and cultural dynamics, and an understanding of how these factors can be integrated in better governance practices. By conveying the findings and recommendations of COST Action FP1204 GreenInUrbs, this volume summarizes the collaborative efforts of researchers and practitioners from across Europe to address these challenges.
Download or read book Tree Health Carbon Sequestration and Sustainibility of Urban Forests written by Christian Alejandro Chiriboga and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: Global climate change concerns have increased the need for multiple mitigation scenarios to reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. Strategic management of urban forests at different times and levels (e.g. nursery and landscape) can contribute to CO2 sequestration over time. Sustainable urban forests can therefore indirectly slow down the effects of climate change, emphasizing the need for increased research on different aspects of urban forest management.
Download or read book Urban and Community Forestry in the Northeast written by John E. Kuser and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-11-14 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a textbook for Urban/Community Forestry courses and a handbook for Shade Tree Commissions, tree wardens, State and National Forestry Services, and professional societies. It is the most complete text in this field because it addresses both culture and management, and the chapters have been written by experts who are active practitioners. The book provides observations and examples relevant to every urban center in the U.S. and elsewhere.
Download or read book Assessing Environmental Benefits of Urban Forests and Associated Economic Values of Carbon Dioxide Reduction in Te Mohafazat of Beirut written by Farah Abou Zeid and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Carbon Sequestration in Urban Ecosystems written by Rattan Lal and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-12-10 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Urbanization drastically alters the ecosystems structure and functions, disrupts cycling of C and other elements along with water. It alters the energy balance and influences climate at local, regional and global scales. In 2008, urban population exceeded the rural population. In 2050, 70% of the world population will live in urban centers. The number of megacities (10 million inhabitants) increased from three in 1975 to 19 in 2007, and is projected to be 27 in 2025. Rapid urbanization is altering the ecosystem C budget. Yet, urban ecosystems have a large C sink capacity in soils and biota. Judicious planning and effective management can enhance C pool in urban ecosystems, and off-set some of the anthropogenic emissions. Principal components with regards to C sequestration include home lawns and turfs, urban forests, green roofs, park and recreational/sports facilities and urban agriculture.
Download or read book Global Climate Change the Urban Forest written by Kamran K. Abdollahi and published by Gcrcc. This book was released on 2000 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Assessing Urban Forest Effects and Values written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An analysis of trees in Casper, WY reveals that this city has about 123,000 trees with canopies that cover 8.9 percent of the area. The most common tree species are plains cottonwood, blue spruce, and American elm. The urban forest currently store about 37,000 tons of carbon valued at $689,000. In addition, these trees remove about 1,200 tons of carbon per year ($22,000 per year) and about 50 tons of air pollution per year ($249,000 per year). The structural, or compensatory, value is estimated at $243 million. Information on the structure and functions of the urban forest can be used to improve and augment support for urban forest management programs and to integrate urban forests within plans to improve environmental quality in the Casper area.
Download or read book General Technical Report PSW written by and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Assessing urban forest effects and values New York City s urban forest written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Assessment of Carbon Storage by Sacramento s Urban Forest written by Elena Aguaron-Fuente and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the forefront of combating climate change, California has adopted laws like AB32 (Global Warming Solutions Act) that reflect ambitious solutions to slow down the trend of increasing emissions. A statewide urban forest planting initiative in California is estimated to account for a significant percentage of the state's total targeted 170 million tons (Mt) reduction of CO2 (i.e., 6 Mt of CO2 annually for 50 million new trees). However, there is no baseline for statewide urban forest reductions, which makes it impossible to determine how much, if any of these projected reductions are "additional" to a business-as-usual (BAU) baseline. Quantifying CO2 storage in the urban forest for 1990 to the present and predicting future storage to 2020 are required to establish a baseline. Reductions that go above and beyond this baseline would be deemed "additional" and worth reporting. The Urban Forest Project Protocol (Vers. 1.1) guides accounting and reporting practices for new tree planting projects, but it does not consider sector-wide efforts to conserve carbon stored in existing trees. This paper presents an approach that combines remotely sensed data and field inventories to develop 1990-2020 baselines for CO2 storage and sequestration by Sacramento's regional urban forest. The first section of this document focuses on determining and explaining the variability among estimates of CO2 storage from four sets of allometric equations for the same ground sample of 640 trees. Limited open-grown urban tree species biomass equations have necessitated use of forest-derived equations with diverse conclusions on the accuracy of these equations to estimate urban biomass and carbon storage. A second goal is to compare the variability found in CO2 stored and sequestered per hectare among estimation approaches for Sacramento's urban forest with the variation found among six other cities. Substantial variability was observed among the four approaches. Storage estimates differed by a maximum of 29% and ranged from 38-49 Mg/ha. The two sequestration estimates differed by 55%, ranging from 1.8-2.8 Mg/ha. To put these numbers in perspective, they amounted to about one-tenth and one-quarter of the maximum differences in CO2 storage and sequestration rates among six cities, respectively. i-Tree Eco produced the lowest storage estimates, perhaps because it relied exclusively on forest-based equations and applied a 0.80 correction factor to open-grown trees. The storage estimates produced by i-Tree Streets and CUFR Tree Carbon Calculator (CTCC) were the highest, while Urban General Equations produced relatively low estimates of CO2 storage. Eco produced lower estimates of CO2 sequestration rates than the CTCC across a range of species. Eco's reductions for tree condition and projected mortality may partially explain the difference. The results support the conclusion that applying UGEs to remotely sensed data that accurately classify broadleaf, conifer and palm tree types in the Sacramento region is likely to produce conservative results compared to results from urban-based species-specific equations. In the second section of this document tree canopy cover (TCC, m2) TCC was mapped and measured for years 1990, 2000, and 2007 using Thematic Mapper and Quickbird imagery. Results from field studies conducted in 1994 (Sacramento Urban Forest Ecosystem Study) and 2007 (UFORE) were used to calibrate the model. The resulting baseline for 1990 to 2020 shows a gradual increase in CO2 storage and sequestration. This trend reflects maturing tree canopy in older neighborhoods, as well as emerging canopy with new development. A potential 15-year planting scenario of 5 million trees results in 381,389 additional trees, 0.51% additional tree canopy cover (TCC) increase, 927.33 additional treed ha and 14,049 additional t of carbon dioxide sequestered or $210,734 accepting the California Environmental Protection Agency estimated average carbon price of $15 per ton for the next two decades. The findings of this study will help urban foresters and city planners in Sacramento better understand baseline trends in urban forest carbon storage that are critical to determining if future management efforts will result in storage that can be reported and credited as additional to BAU. Also, it presents an approach that has potential to be improved and applied to produce a statewide urban forest inventory and baseline.
