The relationship between urban forests and income: A meta-analysis

E Gerrish, SL Watkins - Landscape and urban planning, 2018 - Elsevier
Urban trees provide substantial public health and public environmental benefits. However,
scholarly works suggest that urban trees may be disproportionately low in poor and minority …

Advancing social equity in urban tree planting: Lessons learned from an integrative review of the literature

G Myers, LE Mullenbach, JA Jolley, BB Cutts… - Urban Forestry & Urban …, 2023 - Elsevier
Social equity has become a growing emphasis in urban tree planting programs, with
multiple cities across the world aiming to reduce racial/ethnic and socio-economic …

Beyond 'trees are good': Disservices, management costs, and tradeoffs in urban forestry

LA Roman, TM Conway, TS Eisenman, AK Koeser… - Ambio, 2021 - Springer
The provision of ecosystem services is a prominent rationale for urban greening, and there
is a prevailing mantra that 'trees are good'. However, understanding how urban trees …

Expanding the boundaries of justice in urban greening scholarship: toward an emancipatory, antisubordination, intersectional, and relational approach

I Anguelovski, AL Brand, JJT Connolly… - Annals of the …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Supported by a large body of scholarship, it is increasingly orthodox practice for cities to
deploy urban greening interventions to address diverse socioenvironmental challenges …

Keys to better planning and integrating urban tree planting initiatives

R Sousa-Silva, M Duflos, CO Barona… - Landscape and Urban …, 2023 - Elsevier
Urban tree planting initiatives have been blooming worldwide to help tackle climate change
and nurture healthy living environments for people and biodiversity. Many initiatives are …

Residential housing segregation and urban tree canopy in 37 US Cities

DH Locke, B Hall, JM Grove, STA Pickett… - NPJ Urban …, 2021 - nature.com
Redlining was a racially discriminatory housing policy established by the federal
government's Home Owners' Loan Corporation (HOLC) during the 1930s. For decades …

From toxic sites to parks as (green) LULUs? New challenges of inequity, privilege, gentrification, and exclusion for urban environmental justice

I Anguelovski - Journal of planning literature, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
As marginalized neighborhoods benefit from cleanup and environmental amenities often
brought by municipal sustainability planning, recent trends of land revaluation, investments …

Urban tree canopy has greater cooling effects in socially vulnerable communities in the US

W Zhou, G Huang, STA Pickett, J Wang… - One Earth, 2021 - cell.com
Cities are home to around half of the global population but face intensified and unevenly
distributed heat stresses. Trees are utilized to adapt to urban heat; however, most tree …

The legacy effect: Understanding how segregation and environmental injustice unfold over time in Baltimore

M Grove, L Ogden, S Pickett, C Boone… - Annals of the …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Legacies of social and environmental injustices can leave an imprint on the present and
constrain transitions for more sustainable futures. In this article, we ask this question: What is …

Classification of institutional barriers affecting the availability, accessibility and attractiveness of urban green spaces

M Biernacka, J Kronenberg - Urban forestry & urban greening, 2018 - Elsevier
The main goal of this article is to identify and classify institutional barriers which prevent the
use of urban green spaces (UGS) at three levels: availability (whether a UGS exists) …