Criteria and indicators for strategic urban forest planning and management

Arboriculture and Urban Forestry

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 108-117

  Kenney, W Andy ^a   Van Wassenaer, Philip J E ^b   Satel, Alexander L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b Urban Forest Innovations Inc   (Canada)

Author keywords

Canopy cover; Municipal planning; Relative canopy cover; Sustainability; Urban forest planning; Urban forestry

Indexed keywords

CANOPY; FOREST COVER; FOREST MANAGEMENT; STRATEGIC APPROACH; SUSTAINABILITY; URBAN FORESTRY; URBAN PLANNING;

EID: 79958141627     PISSN: 02785226     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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