Nikolas C. Heynen

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors set out the contours of Marxian urban political ecology and called for greater research attention to a neglected field of critical research that, given its political importance, requires urgent attention.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors set out the contours of Marxian urban political ecology and call for greater research attention to a neglected field of critical research that, given its political importance, requires urgent attention Notwithstanding the important contributions of other critical perspectives on urban ecology, Maoist urban political ecologists provide an integrated and relational approach that helps untangle the interconnected economic, political, social and ecological processes that together go to form highly uneven and deeply unjust urban landscapes.

TL;DR: In this paper, the scales at which socially produced urban forest externalities play out pose difficulties for considering environmental injustice, which makes policy considerations for urban reforestation problematic as a result of the ways in which urban forests contribute to local/global ecological scenarios.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors proposed and tested a model that treated canopy cover as a function of ecological and geographic factors, urban form, socioeconomic factors, and a policy index, and found that urban areas are more likely to have more canopy cover if they are in counties with more canopy coverage, have higher proportions of their populations with college degrees, have older housing stock, have both more land and land with slopes greater than 15%, and have denser stream networks.

TL;DR: In this article, the spatial distribution of trees in public areas in Campos dos Goytacazes, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil was studied and the results demonstrated that the wealthier neighborhoods have both the highest tree biodiversity and number of trees.