City Forest

Author : Andrea Curtis
Publisher : Groundwood Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1773061437
Total Pages : 41 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Forest in the City written by Andrea Curtis and published by Groundwood Books Ltd. This book was released on 2020-04-01 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This beautiful book of narrative non-fiction looks at the urban forest and dives into the question of how we can live in harmony with city trees. “Imagine a city draped in a blanket of green ... Is this the city you know?” A Forest in the City looks at the urban forest, starting with a bird’s-eye view of the tree canopy, then swooping down to street level, digging deep into the ground, then moving up through a tree’s trunk, back into the leaves and branches. Trees make our cities more beautiful and provide shade but they also fight climate change and pollution, benefit our health and connections to one another, provide food and shelter for wildlife, and much more. Yet city trees face an abundance of problems, such as the abundance of concrete, poor soil and challenging light conditions. So how can we create a healthy environment for city trees? Urban foresters are trying to create better growing conditions, plant diverse species, and maintain trees as they age. These strategies, and more, reveal that the urban forest is a complex system—A Forest in the City shows readers we are a part of it. Includes a list of activities to help the urban forest and a glossary. The ThinkCities series is inspired by the urgency for new approaches to city life as a result of climate change, population growth and increased density. It highlights the challenges and risks cities face, but also offers hope for building resilience, sustainability and quality of life as young people act as advocates for themselves and their communities. Key Text Features diagrams author's note glossary sources definitions Correlates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.4.7 Interpret information presented visually, orally, or quantitatively (e.g., in charts, graphs, diagrams, time lines, animations, or interactive elements on Web pages) and explain how the information contributes to an understanding of the text in which it appears.

Author : David Pearlmutter
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319502808
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Urban Forest written by David Pearlmutter and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-02-27 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on urban "green infrastructure" – the interconnected web of vegetated spaces like street trees, parks and peri-urban forests that provide essential ecosystem services in cities. The green infrastructure approach embodies the idea that these services, such as storm-water runoff control, pollutant filtration and amenities for outdoor recreation, are just as vital for a modern city as those provided by any other type of infrastructure. Ensuring that these ecosystem services are indeed delivered in an equitable and sustainable way requires knowledge of the physical attributes of trees and urban green spaces, tools for coping with the complex social and cultural dynamics, and an understanding of how these factors can be integrated in better governance practices. By conveying the findings and recommendations of COST Action FP1204 GreenInUrbs, this volume summarizes the collaborative efforts of researchers and practitioners from across Europe to address these challenges.

Author : Cecil C. Konijnendijk
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319750763
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Forest and the City written by Cecil C. Konijnendijk and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-03-12 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amsterdamse Bos, Bois de Boulognes, Epping Forest, Hong Kong’s country parks, Stanley Park: throughout history cities across the world have developed close relationships with nearby woodland areas. In some cases, cities have even developed – and in some cases are promoting – a distinct ‘forest identity’. This book introduces the rich heritage of these city forests as cultural landscapes, and shows that cities and forests can be mutually beneficial. Essential reading for students and researchers interested in urban sustainability and urban forestry, this book also has much wider appeal. For with city forests playing an increasingly important role in local government sustainability programs, it provides an important reference for those involved in urban planning and decision making, public affairs and administration, and even public health. From providers of livelihoods to healthy recreational environments, and from places of inspiration and learning to a source of conflict, the book presents examples of city forests from around the world. These cases clearly illustrate how the social and cultural development of towns and forests has often gone hand in hand. They also reveal how better understanding of city forests as distinct cultural and social phenomena can help to strengthen synergies both between cities and forests, and between urban society and nature.

Author : Samantha Brooke
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0545765889
Total Pages : 35 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fire in the Forest! (LEGO City) written by Samantha Brooke and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2014-05-27 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reading is always fun in Lego City! When a forest fire breaks out in LEGO City it's up to the LEGO City fireman to put out the flames!

Author : P. A. Yeomans
Publisher : Sydney : Keyline
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The City Forest written by P. A. Yeomans and published by Sydney : Keyline. This book was released on 1971 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Helen Conrad-O'Briain
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781846824296
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tolkien written by Helen Conrad-O'Briain and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Drawing on a wide variety of critical approaches, from philology to ecocriticism ... this collection explores the interaction of culture and nature that imbue's Tolkien's secondary world with the immediacy of our own"--Dust jacket flap.

Author : Marcy Cottrell Houle
Publisher : Oregon State University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780870715884
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book One City's Wilderness written by Marcy Cottrell Houle and published by Oregon State University Press. This book was released on 2010-10-31 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Portland's Forest Park is one of the largest urban parks in the world and the only city wilderness park in the United States. The park is home to hundreds of native plants and animals and offers more than eighty miles of trails-all within minutes of downtown Portland. This updated and expanded edition of One City's Wilderness provides directions to twenty-nine hikes of varying length, difficulty, and scenery, covering every trail within the 5,100-acre park. Marcy Houle shares the history of Forest Park, introduces the people who fought to preserve it, and explores the role stewards play today. She encourages people of all ages to take an "All Trails Challenge"-learning about the unique nature of the park by exploring every trail. Includes Full color trail maps for 29 hikes Fold-out color map of the entire park and its watersheds More than 80 color photographs of native plants and birds Park history, geology, watersheds, vegetation, and wildlife

Author : Voichita Bucur
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3540307893
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Urban Forest Acoustics written by Voichita Bucur and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-02-15 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trees can reduce noise by sound reflection and absorption and this is the first book bringing together the widely scattered literature on noise abatement by urban trees. The book will interest those concerned with environmental management, noise control, and urban forestry. It is an invaluable source of information for environmental managers, foresters, acousticians, engineers, architects, scientists, and students.

Author : Percival Alfred Yeomans
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781438225784
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Water for Every Farm written by Percival Alfred Yeomans and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Comprehensive whole farm design, amplified contour cultivation, water storage in farm dams, layout better farm roads, quick gravity irrigation, contour strip forests, subdivision design, healing erosion, solving salinity"--Cover.

Author : Sophie Cunningham
Publisher : Text Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1925774244
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book City of Trees written by Sophie Cunningham and published by Text Publishing. This book was released on 2019-04-02 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rich and insightful collection of personal essays about life, death and our connection to the environment from bestselling Australian author Sophie Cunningham