Connecting Trees with People

ISBN-13: 9783030945367 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023

Naomi Zürcher

Opis

Written from the perspective of an urban forester and certified arborist, the reader will have a basic understanding of what makes a tree a tree in context to the philosophical and cultural underpinnings of Urban and Community Forestry, and learn how to implement model, time-tested global green practices and initiatives derived from citizen science.

Spis treści

Preface.- Acknowledgements.- Chapter 1. Introducing the tree.- Chapter 2. The Urban Forest: from oxymoron to critical resource.- Chapter 3. The great tree migration: from forest to city center.- Chapter 4. Growing the Urban and Community Forest Today for the City of Tomorrow: connecting our trees and their needs to their human associates.- Chapter 5. The Global Experience in Green Participatory Place-making: a worldwide sampling of Urban and Community Forest connectivity.- Chapter 6. Making a difference – questions asked and questions answered.- Index.

O autorze

Naomi Zürcher is an Urban Forester, an ISA Certified Consulting Arborist and an affiliate member of the USA I Tree team in Luzern, Switzerland.