Urban Forestry in Windsor, Ontario

Urban Forestry Research in Europe: an Overview

Community forestry and its implications for Northern Ontario

Lcs gouvcrnements provinciaux du Canadas' inleressent de plus en plus a la forestcric communautair~. Dc nombreuses colIcctivite.'i a vocation unique vivcnt cntourees dc forets dans Ics regions scptenlrionales des provinces et se lournent mainlcnant vers les ressources forestieres pour diversifier leur Cconomie et aueindre unc CCrlainc stabilite. En mcme lemps qu'augn1Cnle I'intcrel pour cclle q...

Ontario ’ s Forestry Research Partnership : Progress and next steps

This paper provides a synthesis of a 2-phase approach used by the Canadian Ecology Centre – Forestry Research Partnership (CEC-FRP) to implement adaptive management on 6 forest management units in northeastern Ontario. It also provides a summary of a self evaluation of the partnership using a set of attributes deemed necessary to successfully implement adaptive management (i.e., leadership; ali...

Applying Ecosystem Management to Urban Forestry

During the 1990s, the United States Department of Agriculture Forest Service shifted from commodity production management to ecosystem-based management (Overbay, 1992). Although definitions of ecosystem-based mana-gement vary by objectives, the principle had four primary elements: (1) maintaining viable populations of native species, (2) representing native ecosystems across their range of natu...

Air pollution and daily hospital admissions for cardiovascular diseases in Windsor, Ontario.

OBJECTIVE To examine the role that ambient air pollution plays in exacerbating cardiovascular disease hospitalization in Windsor, Ontario. METHODS The number of daily cardiac hospital admissions was obtained from all Windsor hospitals from April 1, 1995 to December 31, 2000 and linked to concentrations of ambient air pollutants and weather variables. The logarithm of daily counts of hospitali...