Pathways to a healthy net-zero future: report of the Lancet Pathfinder Commission

S Whitmee, R Green, K Belesova, S Hassan, S Cuevas… - The Lancet, 2024 - thelancet.com
Executive summary Deep, rapid cuts in greenhouse gas emissions are needed to limit future
global temperature increases to 1· 5 C above pre-industrial levels, but current progress is …

Where is environmental justice? A review of US urban forest management plans

A Grant, AA Millward, S Edge, LA Roman… - Urban Forestry & Urban …, 2022 - Elsevier
The distribution of trees and access to nature is rarely equitable across urban
neighborhoods. This injustice is present in many cities, and its origins are predominantly …

[HTML][HTML] What do we mean by justice in sustainability pathways? Commitments, dilemmas, and translations from theory to practice in nature-based solutions.

K Wijsman, M Berbés-Blázquez - Environmental Science & Policy, 2022 - Elsevier
Justice and fairness have become key considerations in sustainability pathways and nature-
based solutions (NBS), following activists and critical scholars who have long argued that …

Examining the distributional equity of urban tree canopy cover and ecosystem services across United States cities

CB Riley, MM Gardiner - PLoS One, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Examining the distributional equity of urban tree canopy cover (UTCC) has increasingly
become an important interdisciplinary focus of ecologists and social scientists working within …

Decision-making of municipal urban forest managers through the lens of governance

C Ordóñez, CG Threlfall, SJ Livesley, D Kendal… - … Science & Policy, 2020 - Elsevier
Awareness of the benefits of urban trees has led many cities to develop ambitious targets to
increase tree numbers and canopy cover. Policy instruments that guide the planning of cities …

[HTML][HTML] Wealthy, educated, and… non-millennial? Variable patterns of distributional inequity in 31 Canadian cities

J Quinton, L Nesbitt, A Czekajlo - Landscape and Urban Planning, 2022 - Elsevier
This article assesses the distribution of urban vegetation in 31 Canadian cities to determine
whether certain social-economic/demographic factors are associated with increased …

Asset or liability? Ecological and sociological tradeoffs of urban spontaneous vegetation on vacant land in shrinking cities

CB Riley, KI Perry, K Ard, MM Gardiner - Sustainability, 2018 - mdpi.com
The increase of minimally managed vacant land resulting from population loss and the
subsequent removal of infrastructure is a reoccurring feature in shrinking cities around the …

Pursuit of environmental justice in urban forest planning and practice

A Grant, AA Millward, S Edge - Frontiers in Sustainable Cities, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Introduction There is a growing demand for urban forest management that prioritizes
genuine community involvement, acknowledges power imbalances within society, and …

Planting urban trees to improve quality of life? The life satisfaction impacts of urban afforestation

BA Jones - Forest Policy and Economics, 2021 - Elsevier
As cities around the world undertake large-scale urban afforestation projects, knowledge
gaps continue to exist regarding their impacts on quality of life. Using individual-level life …

[HTML][HTML] Assessing the macro-scale patterns of urban tree canopy cover in Brazil using high-resolution remote sensing images

J Guo, Z Liu, XX Zhu - Sustainable Cities and Society, 2024 - Elsevier
This study creates a 0.5 m resolution urban tree canopy (UTC) cover dataset using high-
resolution remote sensing images based on the deep learning method to clarify urban tree …