scholarly journals Market-Based Approaches Toward the Development of Urban Forest Carbon Projects in the United States

10.5772/30187 ◽  
2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neelam C. ◽  
Jacek P. ◽  
J. M.
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Urban Forest ◽  
The United States ◽  
Forest Carbon

Strategic National Urban Forest Inventory for the United States

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher B Edgar ◽  
David J Nowak ◽  
Mark A Majewsky ◽  
Tonya W Lister ◽  
James A Westfall ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Forest Inventory ◽  
Environmental Changes ◽  
Urban Forest ◽  
Urban Expansion ◽  
Urban Forests ◽  
Strategic Plan ◽  
The United States ◽  
Forest Change ◽  
Urban Settings

Abstract In response to the strategic plan required by the Agricultural Act of 2014, the USDA Forest Service Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) program is initiating a strategic inventory of the nation’s urban forests. The inventory is designed to provide timely and credible data on urban forests, thereby meeting an expanding need for information on trees located in communities where more than 80% of people live. The program monitors the status and trends of trees in urban settings (i.e., urban forests), enabling assessment of their composition and structure, ecosystem services and values, health, and risk from pests and disease. At full implementation with funding, resources, and partnerships in place, the program as designed would provide annual updates of urban forest conditions on approximately 68 million acres of land and for 100 of the most populous cities in the United States. The traditional forestland inventory of FIA continues and is complemented by the new urban inventory providing the means for a more complete assessment of the tree and forest resources across the United States. Study Implications Urban forests provide many benefits that improve the quality of life for people residing in urban settings. By initiating an urban inventory, the FIA program seeks to provide consistent, timely, and credible data about urban forests across the United States and thereby meet the needs of users and partners as expressed in its strategic plan. In addition to baseline information, the urban inventory will provide information on urban forest change for managers to help guide or mitigate forest and environmental changes to desirable outcomes. State, regional, and national urban forest assessments useful to setting policy will be strengthened by the standardized data collection procedures. The urban inventory is a significant step toward more seamless rural-urban monitoring and “all tree” assessments that will be necessary to address the challenges that urban expansion presents to adjacent rural and forestlands.

Forest Carbon Management in the United States

2006 ◽  
Vol 35 (4) ◽  
pp. 1461-1469 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Birdsey ◽  
Kurt Pregitzer ◽  
Alan Lucier
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Forest Carbon ◽  
Carbon Management

scholarly journals Effects of biotic disturbances on forest carbon cycling in the United States and Canada

2011 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey A. Hicke ◽  
Craig D. Allen ◽  
Ankur R. Desai ◽  
Michael C. Dietze ◽  
Ronald J. Hall ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Carbon Cycling ◽  
The United States ◽  
Forest Carbon

Forest carbon benefits, costs and leakage effects of carbon reserve scenarios in the United States

2013 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 286-306 ◽  
Author(s):  
Prakash Nepal ◽  
Peter J. Ince ◽  
Kenneth E. Skog ◽  
Sun J. Chang
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Forest Carbon
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