Abstract
The success of urban forest management is frequently predicated upon achieving absolute canopy cover targets. This two-dimensional view of the urban forest does not provide a comprehensive assessment of urban forest stewardship in a community and does not account for an area’s potential to support a forest canopy. A comprehensive set of performance-based criteria and indicators concerning the community’s vegetation resource, community framework and resource management approach is described. This set of broadly based measures provides a more useful tool for the evaluation of urban forest management success and strategic management planning.
- Canopy Cover
- Municipal Planning
- Relative Canopy Cover
- Sustainability
- Urban Forest Planning
- Urban Forestry
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- CANOPY COVER
- CRITERIA AND INDICATORS OF URBAN FOREST MANAGEMENT SUCCESS
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- APPENDIX 1. EXPANDED CRITERIA AND PERFORMANCE INDICATORS FOR THE VEGETATION RESOURCE (ADAPTED FROM CLARK ET AL. 1997)
- APPENDIX 2. EXPANDED CRITERIA AND PERFORMANCE INDICATORS FOR THE COMMUNITY FRAMEWORK (ADAPTED FROM CLARK ET AL. 1997)
- APPENDIX 3. EXPANDED CRITERIA AND PERFORMANCE INDICATORS FOR THE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT APPROACH (ADAPTED FROM CLARK ET AL. 1997)
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