Demonstrating Community Values of Urban Forest Relative to Their Function and Form (0897-50-G-52)

This project examined how community residents percieve urban forests.

As urban growth and development increases, urban forests change in composition, shape, size and proximity to community residents. This project examines how community residents perceive urban forests in their neighborhoods and how they view change in these forests due to urban growth. Residents of neighborhoods with differing amounts of urban forest and recent development were surveyed (n=841). Residents of neighborhoods perceived as most recently changed also perceived the lowest quality in their trees and wooded areas. Residents where change was perceived to be low (older neighborhoods) felt the most positive about quality of woodlands and the influence that such areas had on their neighborhood's image, property values, appearance, wildlife and amount of noise.

1)Develop a research design to systematically assess the relationship between urban forest configuration and distribution on residents' values and use.

2)Select residential areas in a community that exhibit different levels of forestation and change due to development.

3a)Determine how residents feel about change in their community and the role that trees and wooded areas might play in mitigating change in their neighborhoods (survey).

3b)Develop more detail regarding if and how community residents value urban forests in their neighborhoods and the wider community (interviews).

4)Analyze data statistically and spatially.

5)Develop a report and visual package to convey results.

6)Evaluate the project by soliciting feedback from local stakeholders.

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