Urban tree management : for the sustainable development of green cities / edited by Andreas Roloff.

Includes index.

Title Page-- Copyright Page-- Contents-- List of contributors
Show Level-- Chapter 1 Intro: Urban trees – Importance, benefits, problems --Chapter 2 Urban trees: Features and requirements Chapter 3 Fundamentals of tree biology for urban trees -- Chapter 4 Urban tree roots: problems and peculiarities
--l Chapter 5 Drought stress: Adaptation strategies -- Chapter 6 Aspects of urban tree pathology -- Chapter 7 Vitality assessment, tree architecture -- Chapter 8 Body language of trees, tree diagnostics -- Chapter 9 Tree inventory, risk assessment and management -- Chapter 10 Tree preservation, maintenance and repair -- Chapter 11 Tree pruning: methods and parameters -- Chapter 12 Transplanting large trees -- Chapter 13 Dust and noise reduction -- Chapter 14 Invasive species, indigenous vs. alien dendroflora -- Chapter 15 Criteria for species selection: Development of a database for urban trees
-- Chapter 16 Genetic aspects -- Chapter 17 Governance in urban forestry -- Chapter 18 Allotment gardens and privately managed green space in urban environment -- Chapter 19 Urban woods for relaxation and inspiration -- Chapter 20 Acceptance for urban trees: Environmental education programs
-- Index

Urban tree management is the key basis for greener cities of the future. It is a practical discipline which includes tree selection, planting, care and protection and the overall management of trees as a collective resource. Urban Tree Management aims to raise awareness for the positive impacts and benefits of city trees and for their importance to city dwellers. It describes their advantages and details their effects on quality of urban life and well-being – aspects that are increasingly important in these times of progressing urbanisation. With this book you will learn: fundamentals, methods and tools of urban tree management state of the art in the fields of urban forestry and tree biology positive effects and uses of urban trees features, requirements and selection criteria for urban trees conditions and problems of urban trees governance and management aspects environmental education programs. Edited by the leading expert Dr Andreas Roloff, Urban Tree Management is an excellent resource for plant scientists, horticulturists, dendrologists, arborists and arboriculturists, forestry scientists, city planners, parks department specialists and landscape architects. It will be an essential addition to all students and libraries where such subjects are taught.