Camilo Ordóñez Barona

TL;DR: Recent research on ecosystem disservices of urban trees, including infrastructure conflicts, health and safety impacts, aesthetic issues, and environmentally detrimental consequences, as well as management costs related to ecological disturbances and risk management are discussed.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide a baseline understanding of urban forest research in the Latin America and the Caribbean region based on a systematic review of the academic literature, and show that the region indeed has an important body of research in urban forestry that should be recognized in global assessments.

TL;DR: This paper conducted a review of empirical studies about people's perceptions of urban forests and urban trees, focusing on the diversity of places, methods, people, and perception response, using text analysis algorithms in Leximancer and established epistemological and methodological content assessment frameworks.

TL;DR: In this article , the authors assess the views of urban forest actors in Latin American and the Caribbean (LAC) cities on how they participate in collective decision-making, the current state of urban forests management and governance, and contact among actors, with a focus on how these views related to each other.

TL;DR: The authors make a list of common issues in urban nature research based on qualitative social methods emanating from the author's experiences using QSM, reviewing QSM studies, and analysing the empirical literature.