Not by Trees Alone: Centering Community in Urban Forestry
By Lindsay K. Campbell, Erika S. Svendsen, Michelle L. Johnson, Sophie Plitt
By Lindsay K. Campbell, Erika S. Svendsen, Michelle L. Johnson, Sophie Plitt
This paper provides a review of literature that seeks to address dimensions of equity in urban greening. It then offers three themes and related, guiding questions that can help advance that work:
This paper makes specific suggestions that the field of urban forestry draw upon a community forestry ethos as we center the needs, capacities, and priorities of historically marginalized communities at the heart of the work of creating more just, sustainable cities.
Journal: Landscape and Urban Planning
This report summarizes the main threats to one type of urban natural area–forests–and the strategies cities use to minimize or negate these threats. Overall, this report shows that cities use various tactics such as ordinances, zoning, land acquisitions, and federal protections to preserve natural areas. The most successful approaches feature o...
During summer 2022, the Natural Areas Conservancy partnered with 12 cities from the Forests in Cities network to conduct a study focused on quantifying differences in air and surface temperature between types of urban greenspace, with a focus on urban natural areas. As a result of this study, we found that urban natural areas are the coolest class ...