Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://knowledgecommons.lakeheadu.ca/handle/2453/153
Title: A GIS-based decision-support model linking urban forest benefits with sustainability goals: an application to Thunder Bay, Ontario
Authors: Doff, Bradley N.
Keywords: Forest benefits;Community sustainability;Decision support system;GIS;Green infrastructure;Planning;Urban forests
Issue Date: 10-Nov-2012
Abstract: Urban forests are a key piece of a city's green infrastructure, highly valued for their socioeconomic and environmental benefits. Current research demonstrates their structure and function are considerable assets to the health and livability of a city (e.gs., energy savings, stormwater mitigation, decreased crime rates.) Cities are also now beginning to recognize the importance of these benefits in managing and maintaining their urban forests. However, the ways in which these benefits are tabulated fall short of providing city foresters and municipal planners schemes by which to prioritize tree planting and tree care regimes that will optimize benefits to the community. This proposes a method by which this may be accomplished.
URI: http://knowledgecommons.lakeheadu.ca/handle/2453/153
metadata.etd.degree.discipline: Environmental Studies : Northern Environments & Cultures
metadata.etd.degree.name: M.E.S.
metadata.etd.degree.level: Master
metadata.dc.contributor.advisor: Randall, Todd
metadata.dc.contributor.committeemember: Stewart, Robert
Khoster, Rhonda
Appears in Collections:Electronic Theses and Dissertations from 2009

Files in This Item:
File Description SizeFormat 
DoffBN2011m-1b.pdfPDF/A - 1b compliance35.08 MBAdobe PDFThumbnail
View/Open


Items in DSpace are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated.