- Title
- Perceptions and preferences for urban trees across multiple socio-economic contexts in the Eastern Cape, South Africa
- Creator
- Gwedla, Nanamhla, Shackleton, Charlie M
- Date
- 2019
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/177419
- Identifier
- vital:42820
- Identifier
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2019.05.001
- Description
- Urban trees are vital components of urban ecosystems, and thus important for environmental quality, urban sustainability, and quality of life in cities. Regrettably, urban trees are sometimes unequally distributed both between and within towns, a pattern largely associated with differences in the social environment of cities and historical patterns of development, and the dearth in strategic management plans and systematic monitoring of the existing urban forest. Most management plans focus on ecological and arboricultural aspects at the expense of the social, and studies examining perceptions in relation urban forests are largely from developed countries. Accordingly, we conducted a study to examine the perceptions and preferences regarding urban trees of 1200 residents from 10 urban areas across multiple socio-economic contexts in South Africa.
- Format
- 11 pages, pdf
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Landscape and Urban Planning, Gwedla, N. and Shackleton, C.M., 2019. Perceptions and preferences for urban trees across multiple socio-economic contexts in the Eastern Cape, South Africa. Landscape and Urban Planning, 189, pp.225-234, Landscape and Urban Planning volume 189 number 225 234 2019 0169-2046
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