Climate adaptation

Achieving the Urban Tree Trifecta: Scenario Modelling for Salubrious, Resilient, and Diverse Urban Forests in Densifying Cities

Background: Urban forests can provide nature-based solutions (NBS) to complex climate-change challenges via the provision of ecosystem services such as shade and cooling that offset increased risks of chronic diseases and excess mortality. They also confer indirect health benefits by providing regulating ecosystem services that can facilitate climate-change mitigation efforts: increased shade can encourage shifts […]

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Modelling Four Neighbourhood-Scale Urban Forest Scenarios for 2050: Vancouver, Canada

Background: Urban forests are increasingly recognized as important tools in climate change mitigation and adaptation, prompting many cities to set tree canopy cover targets. However, current gaps in knowledge include understanding relationships and the feasibility of maximizing benefits between urban greening and other climate actions, such as densification. This study offers a data-driven and manageable

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British Columbia, Canada, as a bellwether for climate-driven respiratory and allergic disorders

Touching briefly on health effects related to climate change, we orient this Paradigms and Perspectives article within the context of British Columbia, Canada, in hopes that highlighting challenges in British Columbia will be informative and inspirational to others. We describe issues faced in our context, in which extreme climatic events have accelerated dramatically in a

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Why protect big trees?

If you ask any practitioner in my field of urban forestry why we need trees in urban areas, they’re sure to enumerate a litany of benefits ranging from environmental to economic to human health and well-being. Science has made much progress in quantifying these benefits to human society through advances in ecosystem service research; today

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Alignment of municipal climate change and urban forestry policies: A Canadian perspective

While being major greenhouse gas (GHG) emitters, cities also suffer some of the most severe climate change impacts. Urban forests have gained increasing recognition as nature-based solutions to climate change via the various benefits they provide, such as carbon sequestration and temperature regulation. Many cities have developed climate change and/or urban forest policies to enhance

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