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Contemporery Urban Development and Sustainable Urban Form

Sustainable settlement is one of the key constituents of sustainable development, and sustainable urban development can be defined in this framework. Emergence of sustainable development as a commonly-used phrase has caused several controversies about urban forms. Today’s urban form is known as a source of environmental problems. Undoubtedly, this phrase has persuaded many of researchers to sea...

Interpreting Sustainability for Urban Forests

Incisive interpretations of urban-forest sustainability are important in furthering our understanding of how to sustain the myriad values associated with urban forests. Our analysis of earlier interpretations reveals conceptual gaps. These interpretations are attached to restrictive definitions of a sustainable urban forest and limited to a rather mechanical view of maintaining the biophysical ...

How Do Urban Forests Compare? Tree Diversity in Urban and Periurban Forests of the Southeastern US

There is a need to understand how anthropogenic influences affect urban and periurban forest diversity at the regional scale. This study aims to compare urban and periurban tree composition along a geographic gradient, and test hypotheses about species composition and ecological homogeneity. We paired urban forest (UF) data from eight cities across the southeastern US with periurban forest (PF)...

Urban Forests and Carbon Markets: Buyers’ Perspectives

preferences for carbon credits sourced from urban forests. Current market carbon credit prices do not necessarily reflect the type and location of offset projects. Despite the fact that revenue generated from sales of carbon credits could help communities in many ways, the source of offset credits is largely unknown to the buyers. For example, buying offset credits generated by storing carbon i...

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