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Modelling Four Neighbourhood-Scale Urban Forest Scenarios for 2050: Vancouver, Canada
Agatha Czekajlo, Zhaohua Cheng, Sara Barron, Cynthia Girling and Lorien Nesbitt
Arboriculture & Urban Forestry (AUF) January 2024, 50 (1) 18-56; DOI: https://doi.org/10.48044/jauf.2023.025
Agatha Czekajlo
elementslab, School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, University of British Columbia, 3131-2260 West Mall, Vancouver, Canada
Zhaohua Cheng
Collaborative for Advanced Landscape Planning (CALP), Faculty of Forestry, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Sara Barron
Department of Forest Resources Management, Faculty of Forestry, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Cynthia Girling
elementslab, School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Lorien Nesbitt
Department of Forest Resources Management, Faculty of Forestry, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

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Arboriculture & Urban Forestry (AUF)
Vol. 50, Issue 1
January 2024
Modelling Four Neighbourhood-Scale Urban Forest Scenarios for 2050: Vancouver, Canada
Agatha Czekajlo, Zhaohua Cheng, Sara Barron, Cynthia Girling, Lorien Nesbitt
Arboriculture & Urban Forestry (AUF) Jan 2024, 50 (1) 18-56; DOI: 10.48044/jauf.2023.025
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