RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Criteria and Indicators for Strategic Urban Forest Planning and Management
JF Arboriculture & Urban Forestry (AUF)
FD International Society of Arboriculture
SP 108
OP 117
DO 10.48044/jauf.2011.015
VO 37
IS 3
A1 Kenney, W. Andy
A1 van Wassenaer, Philip J.E.
A1 Satel, Alexander L.
YR 2011
UL http://auf.isa-arbor.com/content/37/3/108.abstract
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.