Residential Knowledge of Native Tree Species: A Case Study of Residents in Four Southern Ontario Municipalities

Environmental Management

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 21-33

  Almas, Andrew D ^a   Conway, Tenley M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Carolinian Canada; Native species; Residents; Tree knowledge; Urban forest; Urban policy

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGY; HOUSING; REFORESTATION;

CAROLINIAN CANADA; NATIVE SPECIES; RESIDENTS; TREE KNOWLEDGE; URBAN FORESTS; URBAN POLICY;

FORESTRY;

EDUCATION; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; INVESTMENT; NATIVE SPECIES; RESIDENT POPULATION; TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE; TREE; TREE PLANTING; URBAN FORESTRY; URBAN POLICY;

EDUCATION; ETHNICITY; FOREST MANAGEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; NATIVE SPECIES; NONHUMAN; ONTARIO; RESIDENT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CITY; ECOLOGY; FOREST; FORESTRY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; TREE; TRENDS; URBANIZATION;

CANADA; ONTARIO [CANADA];

CITIES; ECOLOGY; FORESTRY; FORESTS; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; ONTARIO; TREES; URBANIZATION;

EID: 84990873293     PISSN: 0364152X     EISSN: 14321009     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00267-016-0772-5     Document Type: Article

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