[Forest-list] 2012-02-19 NRMI: This Issue: Urban Forest Management and Monitoring and Some Other Good Things

Sun Feb 19 14:06:23 EET 2012

*2012-02-19**NRMI: NATURAL RESOURCE MONITORING ITEMS OF INTEREST*

This Issue:*/Urban Forest Management and Monitoring/ *and**Some Other 
Good Things

*URBAN FOREST MANAGEMENT AND MONITORING*-- IN January, Luiz Octavio de 
Lima Pedreira wrote, "Can you please give us some tips about recent 
developments in Urban Forestry Monitoring and Management." Here are some 
sites that may be of interest. If you know of others, please contact 
Luiz at lopedreira at yahoo.com.br <mailto:lopedreira at yahoo.com.br>

Arnberger, Arne; Eder, Renate. 2007. *Monitoring recreational activities 
in urban forests using long-term video observation*. Forestry 80(1): 
1-15. 
http://faculty.washington.edu/kwolf/Archive/Classes/ESRM304_SocSci/304%20Soc%20Sci%20Lab%20Articles/Arnberger_2007.pdf

Birdsey, Richard. 2005. *Greenhouse Gas Accounting Rules and Guidelines 
for the Forest Sector.* 29 slides. 
http://www.netl.doe.gov/publications/proceedings/05/carbon-seq/Tech%20Session%20Paper%2087.pdf

*Developing an Urban Forest Management Plan for Hurricane-Prone 
Communities*. http://hort.ufl.edu/woody/documents/FR176.pdf

FAO 1993. *Urban and peri-urban forestry.* Unasylva - No. 
173..http://www.fao.org/docrep/u9300e/u9300e00.htm#Contents

Furukawa,Takuya. 2011. *Urban forest management: Uncovering hidden wood 
extraction by urban low-income households in Nairobi, Kenya.* 
Video.http://www.ias.unu.edu/sub_page.aspx?catID=159&ddlID=1858 
<http://www.ias.unu.edu/sub_page.aspx?catID=159&ddlID=1858>

Grossman, Reene; Forrester, Amy L. 2011. *Exploring Remote Sensing 
Through Forestry Applications*. 
http://www.csa.com/discoveryguides/remote/overview.php

Hubbard, Bill. N.d. *The Urban Forest Management Plan - taking the urban 
forest to the next level*. 16 slides. 
http://www.urbanforestrysouth.org/resources/presentations/thye-urban-forest-management-plan/

*IUFRO. 6.07.00 Urban forestry.*Home Page. 
http://www.iufro.org/science/divisions/division-6/60000/60700/

McPhearson, T. et al. 2010. *Assessing Ecosystem Effects of NYC Urban 
Forest Restoration.* Cities and the Environment 3(1): 1-21. 
http://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1079&context=cate&sei-redir=1#search=%22Assessing%20Effects%20Urban%20 
<http://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1079&context=cate&sei-redir=1#search=%22Assessing%20Effects%20Urban%20>

McPherson, E. Gregory. 1992. *Monitoring Urban Forest Health.* 10 p. 
http://www.fs.fed.us/psw/programs/uesd/uep/products/cufr_91_EM93_12.PDF

Meunier, Isabelle Maria Jacqueline et al.1998. *Evaluation of the 
planning, implementing, and monitoring of the urban forest in Recife, 
Pernambuco, Brazil .*Journal of Arboriculture 
24(6):333-338.http://joa.isa-arbor.com/request.asp?JournalID=1&ArticleID=2825&Type=2 
<http://joa.isa-arbor.com/request.asp?JournalID=1&ArticleID=2825&Type=2>

Moskal, L. Monika; Styers, Diane M. 2011. *Monitoring Seattle, Olympia 
and Tacoma Forest Canopies Using Object**-**Based Image Analysis and 
Public Domain Remotely Sensed Data*. 20 slides. 
http://www.waurisa.org/conferences/2011/presentations/14_L_Monika_Moskal_Monitoring_Seattle_Olympia_and_Tacoma_Forest_Canopies.pdf

Myeong, Soojeong et al. 2006. *A temporal analysis of urban forest 
carbon storage using remote sensing.* Remote Sensing of Environment 101: 
277 -- 282. 
http://www.fs.fed.us/ccrc/topics/urban-forests/docs/A_temporal_analysis_of_urban_forest_carbon_using_remote_sensing.pdf

National Forests Org. 2011. *New Research Proves Just How "Green" Urban 
Forests Are.* 
http://www.nationalforests.org/blog/post/17/new-research-proves-just-how-green-urban-forests-are

Nowak, David et al. 2003. *The Urban Forest Effects (UFORE) Model: Field 
Data Collection Manual*. 30 p. 
http://magicoflandscaping.com/Research/UFORE-Field_Data_Collection_Manual.pdf

Nowak, David J. et al.2008. *Effect of Plot and Sample Size on Timing 
and Precision of Urban Forest Assessments*. Arboriculture & Urban 
Forestry 34(6):386--390. 
http://www.itreetools.org/eco/resources/08%20plot%20size.pdf

*Santa Monica's Urban Forest: Facts*- 
http://www.smgov.net/Portals/UrbanForest/content.aspx?id=14794

Swiecki, T. J., Bernhardt, E. A. n.d. *Guidelines for Developing and 
Evaluating Tree Ordinances.* Phytosphere Research, Vacaville, CA. 
http://phytosphere.com/treeord/index.htm

*Texas Urban Forest Facts*- 
http://www.texasurbantrees.org/19/Forest_Facts.htm

*Tropical Urban Forestry Management Plan - A Component of the Urban 
Reforestation Master Plan (*Hawaii). 175 p. 
http://www.outdoorcircle.org/pdfs/TUFMP(7-30-03).pdf 
<http://www.outdoorcircle.org/pdfs/TUFMP%287-30-03%29.pdf>

*Urban and Community Forestry Website*- http://www.fs.fed.us/ucf/

*Urban Forest Lesson Guide*(Wisconsin K -12) - 
http://www4.uwsp.edu/cnr/leaf/Educators/lg_urban.aspx

*Urban Forest Management Plan Toolkit*- http://ufmptoolkit.com/

*Urban Forestry and Human Benefits*- http://www.naturewithin.info/urban.html

*Urban Forestry Best Management Practices for Public Works Managers - 
Urban Forest Management Plan.*22 p. 
http://www2.apwa.net/documents/About/CoopAgreements/UrbanForestry/UrbanForestry-4.pdf

*Urban Forestry Fact Sheet #4: Control Stormwater Runoff with Trees 
-*http://icma.org/en/icma/knowledge_network/documents/kn/Document/2853/Urban_Forestry_Fact_Sheet_4_Control_Stormwater_Runoff_with_Trees

*Urban Forestry Manual*- 
http://www.urbanforestrysouth.org/resources/collections/urban-forestry-manual

*Urban Forests*- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_forestry

*Urban Forests*- 
http://www.americanforests.org/conservation-programs/urban-forests/

*Urban Forests*(Canada) - 
http://www.janegoodall.ca/planet-releaf/UrbanForests.html

USFS. 2011.*Monitoring and Assessment of Urban Forests and Trees*. 
http://nrs.fs.fed.us/urban/monitoring/

USFS. *Urban Webcast Video Archive and Support Library*. 
http://www.unri.org/webcasts/archive/

van Wassenaer, Philip; Kenney, Andy. 2010*. Sustainable Urban Forest 
Management Planning Using Criteria and Indicators*. Web cast. 
http://www.unri.org/webcasts/archive/january-2010/

Washington State.2009. *A guide to community and urban forestry 
programming*. 40 p. 
http://www.dnr.wa.gov/Publications/rp_urban_guideucfprograms.pdf

Ying, Li; Ben, Liu. 2010. *Research on the Eco-Socio-Economy Synergetic 
Development of Urban Forestry under E-government Affairs. *Abstract. 
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/Xplore/login.jsp?url=http%3A%2F%2Fieeexplore.ieee.org%2Fiel5%2F5589107%2F5590383%2F05590677.pdf%3Farnumber%3D5590677&authDecision=-203 
<http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/Xplore/login.jsp?url=http%3A%2F%2Fieeexplore.ieee.org%2Fiel5%2F5589107%2F5590383%2F05590677.pdf%3Farnumber%3D5590677&authDecision=-203>

*SOME OTHER PUBLICATIONS/URLS OF INTEREST*

AMCEN, 2011: *Addressing Climate Change Challenges in Africa; A 
Practical Guide Towards Sustainable Development.* 272 p. 
http://www.unep.org/roa/amcen/docs/publications/guidebook_CLimateChange.pdf

BBC News.2006- *Study hopeful for world's forests.* The future may be a 
little brighter for forests, the researchers say. A new technique for 
measuring the state of the world's forests shows the future may not be 
as bad as previously feared. 
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6143514.stm#top

McGrath, Christopher James. 2007. *How to evaluate the effectiveness of 
an environmental legal system.* Thesis. 270 p. 
http://www.envlaw.com.au/phd.pdf

Särkinen, Tiina et al. 2011. *Forgotten forests - issues and prospects 
in biome mapping using Seasonally Dry Tropical Forests as a case study.* 
BMC Ecology 11:27 
http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/pdf/1472-6785-11-27.pdf

Sunderlin, W. D., S. Dewi, A. Puntodewo, D. Müller, A. Angelsen, and M. 
Epprecht. 2008.*Why forests are important for global poverty 
alleviation: a spatial explanation*. Ecology and Society 13(2): 24. 
[online] URL: http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol13/iss2/art24/

Tamstorf, Mikkel P. et al. 2007. *Spectral measures and mixed models as 
valuable tools for investigating controls on land surface phenology in 
high arctic Greenland*. BMC Ecology 7:9. 
http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/pdf/1472-6785-7-9.pdf

Taylor, Philip D. et al. 2010. *radR: an open-source platform for 
acquiring and analysing data on biological targets observed by 
surveillance radar.* BMC Ecology 10:22. 
http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/pdf/1472-6785-10-22.pdf

van Noordwijk M; Minang PA. 2009. "*If we cannot define it, we cannot 
save it".* European Tropical Forest Research Network (ETFRN) NEWS 50: 
Forests and Climate Change. November 2009. Tropenbos International, 
Wageningen, The Netherlands. Available at: 
http://www.etfrn.org/etfrn/newsletter/news50/index.html

Velarde SJ, et al.2010. *Reducing Emissions from All Land Uses in Peru*. 
Final National Report. ASB Partnership for the Tropical Forest Margins. 
Nairobi, Kenya. 142 p. 
http://www.asb.cgiar.org/PDFwebdocs/REALU%20I-Peru%20Report-.pdf

Vidal, C., Lanz, A., Tomppo, E., Schadauer, K., Gschwantner, T., di 
Cosmo, L. & Robert, N. 2008. *Establishing forest inventory reference 
definitions for forest and growing stock: a study towards common 
reporting.* Silva Fennica 42(2): 247--266. 
http://www.metla.fi/silvafennica/full/sf42/sf422247.pdf

White, Neil A. et al. 2008. *A comparison of plotless density estimators 
using Monte Carlo simulation on totally enumerated field data sets.* BMC 
Ecology, 8:6. http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/pdf/1472-6785-8-6.pdf

World Bank n.d.. *Chapter 7. Monitoring and Information Systems for 
Forest Management*. 
http://siteresources.worldbank.org/EXTFORSOUBOOK/Resources/07-FSB-Ch07.pdf

Neff, Till, et al. n.d. *Choosing a forest definition for the clean 
development mechanism.* Forests and Climate Change Working Paper 4. 18 
p. http://www.fao.org/forestry/11280-03f2112412b94f8ca5f9797c7558e9bc.pdf

*KEEPING UP-TO-DATE -- PRODUCTS, NEWSLETTERS, EMAIL LISTS, JOURNALS*See 
also 
http://botany.si.edu/puhttps://www.createspace.com/3489254bs/bcn/links.cfm 
<http://botany.si.edu/puhttps:/www.createspace.com/3489254bs/bcn/links.cfm>, 
http://scholar.google.com/, and**Directory of open access journals. 
http://www.doaj.org/doaj?func=findJournals.

*INFOSYLVA -- *You may find the latest issue of FA/O/'s INFOSYLVA at 
http://www.fao.org/forestry/infosylva/71866/en/. //

*ISPRS Bulletin*You may access the latest copy of the International 
Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing at 
http://www.isprs.org/news/newsletter/2012-01/index.html.

*WORKING SMARTER - WORKSHOPS, MEETINGS, EVENTS, ETC*. -- See also: 
http://www.gfis.net, http://www.iufro.org/events/calendar/ and 
http://www.iufro.org/discover/noticeboard/.

*MOVING AHEAD -- OPPORTUNITIES*-- See also: Scholarships-Positions - 
http://scholarship-positions.com/ , Forestry, Arboriculture, 
Agriculture, Agronomy & Natural Resource Management Jobs at 
http://www.earthworks-jobs.com/forest.htm, Riley Guide to Agriculture, 
Forestry, & Farming Jobs http://www.rileyguide.com/agric.html, Finding 
Your Dream Job in Natural Resources http://www.cyber-sierra.com/nrjobs/ 
, http://www.nature.com/naturejobs/index.html The Job Seekers Guide for 
International and Environmental Careers 
_http://timresch.net/ejobs/index.htm _and Scholarship Listing 
_http://www.scholarshiplisting.com/_. *
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*FOREST FRAGMENTS (Tip of the week)*If you have a tip to improve field 
or office work that you would like to share, please send to me 
(gyde at comcast.net <mailto:gyde at comcast.net>)

*Pay It Forward/-- Cheers, Gyde/*

-- 
H. Gyde Lund
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