It's then recommended to associate planting and managing urban forest resources to other strategies that take into account the urban environment characteristics: built structures, street design, location of local sources; etc.
Therefore, to manage urban forests with highly diverse uses such as forest bathing and other recreational activities, an administrator must be well informed about the level of management required in relation to intended uses.
They compared their results with benefit estimations produced by the World Bank and found that managing urban forests to produce air quality improvements was a cost-effective approach to reducing particulate matter.
On the other hand, healthy and sustainably managed urban and peri-urban forests can increase the health and resilience of cities in the face of changing and increasingly challenging economic, social and physical environments.
The Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies has partnered with the Natural Areas Conservancy and the Trust for Public Land on a first-of-its-kind report on how U.S. cities manage urban natural forests.
We explore these issues and report on the neighbourhood approach taken to stratifying and managing the urban forest in Halifax, Canada.
Streetscape showing trees in city right-of-way– wires, lightpoles, sidewalks, driveways, traffic, houses– some of the challenges in managing the urban forest.
Many municipalities do not coordinate with local and/or community organizations that could assist them in managing the urban forest.
However, it is still arguable just what the minimum standard for this is, though it would be a certain boundary for assessing and managing urban ecosystem services such as urban forest carbon offset.
It seeks to reduce risks and costs and to manage urban and peri-urban trees and forests to maintain and increase the provision of goods and environmental services.
