Book Details

The Forest and the City

Publication year: 2008

: 978-1-4020-8371-6

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From providers of livelihoods to healthy recreational environments, and from places of inspiration and learning to a source of conflict, the book presents examples of city forests from around the world. These cases clearly illustrate how the social and cultural development of towns and forests has often gone hand in hand. They also reveal how better understanding of city forests as distinct cultural and social phenomena can help to strengthen synergies both between cities and forests, and between urban society and nature.


: Biomedical and Life Sciences, City forest, Cultural landscapes, Environmental history, Forestry, Urban forestry, forest, urban development