Urban Tree Management Paperback

Andreas Roloff

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, re

1118954580

9781118954584

English

Wiley-Blackwell

25-May-09

288

Dr Andreas Roloff is Chair of Forest Botany, Dresden University of Technology, Germany. He is the author/editor of other Wiley publications: Enzyklop die der Holzgew chse (Encyclopedia of Woody Plants), B ume Nordamerikas (North American Trees), B ume Mitteleuropas (Trees in Central Europe), B ume: Lexikon der Praktischen Baumbiologie, (Trees: Encyclopedia of Applied Tree Biology).