Carbon dioxide reduction through urban forestry: guidelines for professional and volunteer tree planters

McPherson, E. Gregory; Simpson, James

doi:10.2737/psw-gtr-171

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“…Trees and other vegetation intercept particles and gaseous pollutants (McPherson et al 1997;Harris et al 1999). Moreover, they act as carbon sinks that help mitigate global warming (McPherson & Simpson, 1999). Trees reduce storm water runoff and can assist with processing wastewater, for example, where other wastewater facilities are insufficient (El Lakany, 1999).…”

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Socio-Economic Contributions of an Indigenous Tree in Urban Areas of Southwest Nigeria

Babalola¹,

Borokini²,

Onefeli³

et al. 2013

African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Developm

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Indigenous trees have been discovered to be disappearing from urban areas at alarming rates, and the contributions of the existing trees are not adequately documented. Milicia excelsa is an indigenous trees species in tropical Africa and popularly known as Iroko. Due to extensive exploitation for wood production and other socio-economic activities, the tree species is classified as threatened and relics could only be found in a few locations. A survey of the trees in the city of Ibadan was therefore carried out to determine their distribution as well as their socio-economic contributions to the urban people. A semi-structured questionnaire was administered to the people living close to the trees or working in the locations where the trees are sighted to determine the socio-economic benefits. A total of 65 trees (0.14 trees/km 2 ) of M. excelsa were sighted. As observed in the city, the benefits of the tree species were categorized as: environmental, medicinal, economic, spiritual and ecological services. Provision of shade that creates a 'microclimatic environment' in the form of cooling effects from the heat of the day was mentioned by about 95% of the respondents as the major benefit obtained from the trees. A strategy for the conservation of the trees as urban trees and their protection against damage to life and property are considered imperative. There is also a need for an appropriate policy that protects indiscriminate felling of indigenous trees in the city and constant monitoring of the trees' status for any sign of weakness.

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Socio-Economic Contributions of an Indigenous Tree in Urban Areas of Southwest Nigeria

Babalola¹,

Borokini²,

Onefeli³

et al. 2013

African Journal of Science, Technology, Innovation and Developm

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“…Trees are considered to interact with buildings if they are greater than 20 feet tall and are within 60 feet of a space-conditioned building. 9 It is estimated trees in NCC save approximately $403,000/year in residential building energy costs (Table 3). The reduction of energy use also lessens the amount of carbon released into the atmosphere from power plants by about 1,020 tons/year ($21,000/year) ( Table 4).…”

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Urban forest assessment in northern Delaware

Nowak¹,

Hoehn²,

Wang³

et al. 2009

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“…Directions were classified as north, northeast, east, southeast, south, southwest, west and northwest within 45 • wedges centered at the cardinal or ordinal direction (Table 2). These classes were defined to match the classes needed for building energy modeling (McPherson and Simpson, 1999).…”

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“…The energy effects are estimated in i-Tree Eco based on methods from McPherson and Simpson (1999), which used various energy simulations (e.g., simulations of tree effects on building energy use due to shade, windbreaks and local climate (temperature) effects) to estimate the effect of individual trees on building energy use and carbon emissions for various climate regions and tree classes across the United States.…”

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Residential building energy conservation and avoided power plant emissions by urban and community trees in the United States

Nowak

Appleton

Ellis

et al. 2017

Urban Forestry & Urban Greening

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Carbon dioxide reduction through urban forestry: guidelines for professional and volunteer tree planters

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Socio-Economic Contributions of an Indigenous Tree in Urban Areas of Southwest Nigeria

Socio-Economic Contributions of an Indigenous Tree in Urban Areas of Southwest Nigeria

Urban forest assessment in northern Delaware

Residential building energy conservation and avoided power plant emissions by urban and community trees in the United States

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