PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Kenney, W. Andy
AU  - van Wassenaer, Philip J.E.
AU  - Satel, Alexander L.
TI  - Criteria and Indicators for Strategic Urban Forest Planning and Management
AID  - 10.48044/jauf.2011.015
DP  - 2011 May 01
TA  - Arboriculture & Urban Forestry (AUF)
PG  - 108--117
VI  - 37
IP  - 3
4099  - http://auf.isa-arbor.com/content/37/3/108.short
4100  - http://auf.isa-arbor.com/content/37/3/108.full
AB  - 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.