Homeowner interactions with residential trees in urban areas

Arboriculture and Urban Forestry

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 267-277

  Dilley, Jana ^a   Wolf, Kathleen L ^b  

^a School of Environmental and Forest Sciences ^*

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Benefits; Canopy Cover; Fruit Trees; Homeowner; Human Dimensions; Neighborhood Planning; Private Property; Residential Trees; Seattle; Social Science; Tree Planting; Washington

Indexed keywords

ATTITUDINAL SURVEY; CANOPY ARCHITECTURE; HOMEOWNER; LAND USE PLANNING; URBAN AREA; URBAN FORESTRY; URBAN PLANNING;

SEATTLE; UNITED STATES; WASHINGTON [UNITED STATES];

EID: 84888322227     PISSN: 02785226     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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