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Public Attitudes Toward Urban Trees and Supporting Urban Tree Programs
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In this article, survey responses regarding Alabama urban residents' attitudes toward urban trees and the provision and maintenance of urban forest by federal, state, and local governmen were analyzed and compared.Abstract:
In this article, we analyze survey responses regarding Alabama urban residents' attitudes toward urban trees and the provision and maintenance of urban forest by federal, state, and local governmen...read more
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A review of benefits and challenges in growing street trees in paved urban environments
TL;DR: In this article, a review explores a wide range of literature spanning 30 years that demonstrates the benefits provided by street trees, the perceptions of street trees conveyed by urban residents, the costs of pavement damage by tree roots, and some tried and tested measures for preventing pavement damage and improving tree growth.
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Landscape, vegetation characteristics, and group identity in an urban and suburban watershed: why the 60s matter
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the relationship between demographics, housing characteristics, and lifestyle clusters from 1960 and 2000 with areas of high woody and herbaceous vegetation cover in 1999 and found that 1960 demographics and age of housing are better predictors of high tree coverage in 1999 than demographics and housing characteristics from 2000.
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The Racial/Ethnic Distribution of Heat Risk–Related Land Cover in Relation to Residential Segregation
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the distribution of heat risk-related land cover (HRRLC) characteristics across racial/ethnic groups and degrees of residential segregation and found that HRRLC conditions increased with increasing degrees of metropolitan area level segregation.
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Preference to home landscape: wildness or neatness?
TL;DR: This article explored students' preferences toward natural and wild versus clean and neat residential landscapes using preference survey data and found that senior students and students from large cities also prefer well-maintained and artificial landscapes.
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The theory of planned behavior
TL;DR: Ajzen, 1985, 1987, this article reviewed the theory of planned behavior and some unresolved issues and concluded that the theory is well supported by empirical evidence and that intention to perform behaviors of different kinds can be predicted with high accuracy from attitudes toward the behavior, subjective norms, and perceived behavioral control; and these intentions, together with perceptions of behavioral control, account for considerable variance in actual behavior.
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Environmental Attitudes and Behavior A Pennsylvania Survey
David Scott,Fern K. Willits +1 more
TL;DR: A statewide survey of Pennsylvanians conducted in 1990 provided data on residents' opinions about ideas contained in the new environmental paradigm (NEP) and behaviors engaged in that are environmentally protective as discussed by the authors.
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Assessing the benefits and costs of the urban forest
TL;DR: The benefits and costs of urban forests and their management are discussed in this article, with the focus on how the forest can best meet people's needs and how to best manage urban forests to provide those benefits.
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Amenities Drive Urban Growth
TL;DR: In the post-industrial city, citizens in the postindustrial city increasingly make quality of life demands, treating their own urban location as if tourists, emphasizing aesthetic concerns as discussed by the authors, and these practices impact considerations about the proper nature of amenities that postindustrial cities can sustain.
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Volunteers: The Organizational Behavior of Unpaid Workers
TL;DR: The first comprehensive book on the organizational behavior of volunteer workers is as discussed by the authors, which explores why people volunteer for organizational work, drawing upon original research and the existing scholarly work in this field.