Robert F. Young

TL;DR: In this article, the authors surveyed the membership of the Society for Municipal Arborists and found that municipal foresters perceived the management of municipal green space to enhance ecosystem services to be increasingly significant to the goals and actions of their departments.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors identify urban green infrastructure (GI) as the infrastructure that cannot keep pace with the rising social and ecological impacts of urbanization, and propose a solution to this problem.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore whether the enhancement of urban ecosystem services through large-scale, metropolitan tree-planting initiatives is being planned and executed as a component of traditional municipal government or represents new, transdisciplinary strategies in environmental governance.

TL;DR: In this article, a new typology incorporating political, economic, and ecological forces shaping urban green infrastructure (GI) implementation is developed to identify cities' present stage of GI development and map next steps to mainstream GI as a component of urban infrastructure.

TL;DR: This paper surveyed the membership of the Society for Municipal Arborists about their efforts in managing municipal green space to produce ecosystem services and found that a significant percentage of organizations are currently engaged in managing green space assets to produce ecosystems and predicted such activities would increase over time.