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Storms Over the Urban Forest: Planning, Responding, and Regreening-- A Community Guide to Natural Disaster Relief
Lisa L. Burban,John W. Andreson +1 more
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The Storms over the Urban Forest (SOWF) manual as discussed by the authors is a disaster mitigation handbook for 20 states of the Northeastern Area that is intended to assist community governmental agencies to prepare for natural disasters and recover from the subsequent loss of vegetation.Abstract:
Following a severe August, 1990, tornado that struck Kane, Kendall, and Will Counties in Illinois, a consortium of concerned federal, state and university agencies decided to prepare a disaster mitigation handbook to serve the 20 states of the Northeastern Area. This second edition of Storms over the Urban Forest has been expanded to serve the needs of all 50 states. Emphasizing practicality, this manual is intended first, to assist community governmental agencies to prepare for natural disasters and second, to recover from the subsequent loss of vegetation. Throughout the document, the use of proper tree maintenance and tree planting techniques are emphasized.read more
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Planting the Living City: Best Practices in Planning Green Infrastructure—Results From Major U.S. Cities
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.
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Storm damage on urban trees in Guangzhou, China
Chi Yung Jim,Howard H.T. Liu +1 more
TL;DR: Guangzhou is the largest city in subtropical South China with a significant tree cover and a long history of urban greening as discussed by the authors, and a detailed survey was conducted immediately after the storm to collect quantitative information on 1782 trees encompassing 89.5% of the total spoiled-tree population.
Trees and Ice Storms: The Development of Ice Storm–Resistant Urban Tree Populations
TL;DR: In this article, a number of characteristics increase a tree species susceptibility to ice storms: included bark, decaying or dead branches, increased surface area of lateral (side) branches, broad crowns, and imbalanced crowns.
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Modeling hurricane-caused urban forest debris in Houston, Texas
Benjamin Thompson,Francisco J. Escobedo,Christina L. Staudhammer,Corene J. Matyas,Youliang Qiu +4 more
TL;DR: In this paper, three statistical models were developed and input parameters included measured urban forest structure data, land cover data from existing plots, the National Hurricane Center's H*Wind dataset, and the United States Geological Survey's National Land Cover Database.