Urban forest indicators for planning and designing future forests

Forests

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2016, Pages

  Barron, Sara ^a   Sheppard, Stephen R J ^a   Condon, Patrick M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Climate change; Delphi; Ecosystem services; Green infrastructure; Indicators; Urban design; Urban forest

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEMS; INDICATORS (INSTRUMENTS); RATING; TIMBER; URBAN PLANNING;

DELPHI; ECOSYSTEM SERVICES; GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE; URBAN DESIGN; URBAN FORESTS;

FORESTRY;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DELPHI ANALYSIS; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; FOREST MANAGEMENT; SOCIAL INDICATOR; URBAN DESIGN; URBAN FORESTRY;

EID: 84990935045     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19994907     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/f7090208     Document Type: Article

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