Understanding how urban forests developed their current patterns of tree canopy cover,
species composition, and diversity requires an appreciation of historical legacy effects …

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 …

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 …

Growing evidence is showing that across North American cities, underprivileged populations
and racial and/or visible groups have disproportionally less access to vegetation than …

Examining the distributional equity of urban tree canopy cover (UTCC) has increasingly
become an important interdisciplinary focus of ecologists and social scientists working within …

This study evaluated the hypothesis that urban-tree planting increases neighborhood
gentrification in Portland, Oregon. We defined gentrification as an increase in the median …

Objectives Broken windows theory identifies community social control as a central
mechanism for controlling crime. In turn, controlling disorder is seen as the primary method …

Private yards provide city residents with access to ecosystem services that can be realized
through passive (vegetation availability) and active (time spent in yards: frequency and …

Urban green spaces are increasingly seen through the lens of their contributions to
economic growth, neglecting the broader aspects of common goods and social-ecological …

Objectives While there has been significant study of the relationship between police
legitimacy and its key antecedents-procedural justice (PJ) and police effectiveness (PE) at …