The costs of maintaining and not maintaining the urban forest: A review of the urban forestry and arboriculture literature

Arboriculture and Urban Forestry

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 293-323

  Vogt, Jess ^a   Hauer, Richard J ^b   Fischer, Burnell C ^c  

^a DEPAUL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN STEVENS POINT   (United States)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cost of not maintaining trees; Deferred maintenance; Literature review; Maintenance costs; Municipal forestry; Planting; Pruning; Removal; Urban forestry; Urban tree maintenance

Indexed keywords

COST ANALYSIS; FOREST MANAGEMENT; HORTICULTURE; LITERATURE REVIEW; PRUNING; TREE; URBAN FORESTRY;

EID: 84946567793     PISSN: 19355297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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