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Category : Chicago (Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages : 118
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Chicago's Evolving Urban Forest
Author: Chicago's Evolving Urban Forest
Author: Chicago's Evolving Urban Forest
Author: Chicago's Urban Forest Ecosystem
Author: E. Gregory McPhersonPublisher:
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Category : Energy conservation
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Chicago's Urban Trees and Forests
Author: Elizabeth M. BartleyPublisher: Nova Science Pub Incorporated
ISBN: 9781631171062
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 139
Book Description
Trees in the Chicago regional forest can contribute significantly to human health and environmental quality. The urban forest resource comprises all trees, both within and outside forested stands. This can include boulevard trees, trees planted in parks, and trees that naturally occur in public rights-of-way, as well as trees planted on private or commercial properties. Relatively little is known about this forest resource, what it contributes to society and the economy, and the value of its contributions. This book focuses on the urban trees and forests in the Chicago region and assesses the effects and values of these forests.
Publications of the Northeastern Forest Experiment Station, 1993 and 1994
Author: Northeastern Forest Experiment Station (Radnor, Pa.)Publisher:
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Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Chicago Wilderness Region Urban Forest Vulnerability Assessment and Synthesis
Author: Leslie Alyson BrandtPublisher:
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Category : Arboriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
The urban forest of the Chicago Wilderness region, a 7-million-acre area covering portions of Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, and Wisconsin, will face direct and indirect impacts from a changing climate over the 21st century. This assessment evaluates the vulnerability of urban trees and natural and developed landscapes within the Chicago Wilderness region to a range of future climates. We synthesized and summarized information on the contemporary landscape, provided information on past climate trends, and illustrated a range of projected future climates. We used this information to inform models of habitat suitability for trees native to the area. Projected shifts in plant hardiness and heat zones were used to understand how nonnative species and cultivars may tolerate future conditions. We also assessed the adaptability of planted and naturally occurring trees to stressors that may not be accounted for in habitat suitability models such as drought, flooding, wind damage, and air pollution.
Monthly Catalogue, United States Public Documents
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1194
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The Sustainable City XV
Author: S. SyngellakisPublisher: WIT Press
ISBN: 1784664472
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 662
Book Description
Consisting of presented papers from the 15th International Conference on Urban Regeneration and Sustainability, the included works address various aspects of the urban environment and provide solutions leading towards sustainability. Urban areas result in a series of environmental challenges varying from the consumption of natural resources and the subsequent generation of waste and pollution, contributing to the development of social and economic imbalances. As cities continue to grow all over the world, these problems tend to become more acute and require the development of new solutions. The challenge of planning sustainable contemporary cities lies in considering the dynamics of urban systems, exchange of energy and matter, and the function and maintenance of ordered structures directly or indirectly supplied and maintained by natural systems. The task of researchers is to improve the capacity to manage human activities, pursuing welfare and prosperity in the urban environment. Any investigation or planning on a city ought to consider the relationships between the parts and their connections with the living world. The dynamics of its networks (flows of energy matter, people, goods, information and other resources) are fundamental for an understanding of the evolving nature of today’s cities. Large cities represent a fertile ground for architects, engineers, city planners, social and political scientists, and other professionals able to conceive new ideas and time them according to technological advances and human requirements. Coastal areas and coastal cities are an important area covered in this volume as they have some specific features. Their strategic location facilitates transportation and the development of related activities, but this requires the existence of large ports, with the corresponding increase in maritime and road traffic and all its inherent negative effects. This requires the development of well-planned and managed urban environments, not only for reasons of efficiency and economics but also to avoid inflicting environmental degradation that causes the deterioration of natural resources, quality of life and human health. These research papers put a focus on sustainability across the multidisciplinary components of urban planning, the challenges presented by the increasing size of cities, the number of resources required and the complexity of modern society.
Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1308
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