Trees in canadian cities: Indispensable life form for urban sustainability

Sustainability (Switzerland)

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 7379-7396

  Duinker, Peter N ^a   Ordóñez, Camilo ^a   Steenberg, James W N ^b   Miller, Kyle H ^c   Toni, Sydney A ^a   Nitoslawski, Sophie A ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b RYERSON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Forest values; Sustainability; Tree; Urban forest

Indexed keywords

INFRASTRUCTURE; SUSTAINABILITY; TREE; URBAN FORESTRY; VALUATION;

CANADA;

EID: 84934343762     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20711050     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/su7067379     Document Type: Review

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