Sustainability

Sustainability is the ability to preserve the integrity of natural resources and systems, so they are neither depleted nor damaged, ensuring future generations a healthy and clean environment.

Urban Forestry

A planned approach for the development and maintenance of the urban forest, including all elements of green infrastructure within a community, in an effort to optimize the resulting benefits in social, environmental, public health, economic, and aesthetic terms,...

Urban Forest

The sum of all woody and associated vegetation in and around dense human settlements, ranging from small communities in rural settings to metropolitan regions. (from Urban Forestry, Planning and Managing Urban Greenspaces by Robert W. Miller: 1988. New Jersey:...

Stakeholder Analysis

The process of identifying those affected by a project or event. It is frequently used during the preparation phase of a project to assess the attitudes of the stakeholders regarding the potential changes. Stakeholder analysis helps with the identification of the...

Species Diversity

A measure of the number and variety of different species found in a given area.