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These resources are part of the course materials and they can be included in Weekly quiz and Final quiz assessment.
Roman, L. A., Conway, T. M., Eisenman, T. S., Koeser, A. K., Ordóñez Barona, C., Locke, D. H., ... & Vogt, J. (2021). Beyond ‘trees are good’: Disservices, management costs, and tradeoffs in urban forestry. Ambio, 50(3), 615-630.
This articles gives a very good overview of ecosystem disservices and management costs related to urban forests and urban trees.
RESOURCE LINKMcPherson, G., Simpson, J. R., Peper, P. J., Maco, S. E., & Xiao, Q. (2005). Municipal forest benefits and costs in five US cities. Journal of forestry, 103(8), 411-416.
This article reports on costs and benefits of municipal urban tree and urban forest resources in 5 US cities. It is particularly relevant as it includes real management costs for the street trees in these cities.
RESOURCE LINKNorthrop R. (2020). Calculating the Costs and Benefits of Urban Trees in Central Florida. Blogpost. Consulted 18 June 2022.
Short blogpost summarising how costs and benefits for urban trees are calculated.
RESOURCE LINKMacie E. (2019). Urban Forests: Understanding Associated Costs. Blogpost. Consulted 18 June 2022.
Blogpost introducing costs related to urban trees in America.
RESOURCE LINKKunsch, A. and R. Parks. Tree Planting Cost-Benefit Analysis: A Case Study for Urban Forest Equity in Los Angeles. Y. Chen and M. Gonez (Eds.) TreePeople, 2021.
Interesting article on the costs of private and public single trees, as support for developing a tree planting programme in Los Angeles (US).
RESOURCE LINKWisconsin Department of Natural Resources (s.d.) City of Fond du Lac. Street Tree benefits.
This fact sheet reports on an analysis of street trees and canopy cover for the City of Fond du Lac in the Northeast Area of Wisconsin. The study quantified the annual ecosystem services and aesthetic benefits of public trees using i-Tree Streets. In addition, an i-Tree Canopy analysis provided communities with current canopy cover estimates and an assessment of potential canopy cover for future monitoring and goal setting. The fact sheet illustrates how iTree can be used, and what benefits this tool reports for street trees in the US. This report is part of a series of similar analysis in 19 communities in the Northeast Area of Wisconsin. See all the factsheets.
RESOURCE LINKMcPherson, E. G., Gable, M., Jahn, D., Ames, D., & Remcheck, M. (2008). City of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Municipal Forest Resource Analysis. Center for Urban. Forest Research, USDA Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station: Redding, CA, USA.