Thumbnail Image

Unasylva 250

Forests and Sustainable Cities

Year of publication 2018

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Pages 88 p.

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Book (series)

ISBN 978-92-5-130383-2

Series title Unasylva

Series number Vol. 69

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) Cities need forests. The network of woodlands, groups of trees and individual trees in a city and on its fringes performs a huge range of functions – such as regulating climate; storing carbon; removing air pollutants; reducing the risk of flooding; assisting in food, energy and water security; and improving the physical and mental health of citizens. Forests enhance the look of cities and play important roles in social cohesion; they may even reduce crime. This edition of Unasylva takes a close look at urban and peri-urban forestry – its benefits, pitfalls, governance and challenges.

Language English

Also available in:

Related items

Showing items related by metadata.

  • Thumbnail Image
    Book (series)
    Unasylva 247/248 - XIV World Forestry Congress 2016
    Also available in:
    Forests are essential to life on our planet, to mitigating and adapting to climate change, ensuring adequate supply of fresh water, enhancing biodiversity and providing sustainable incomes and livelihoods, including food security. But they face unprecedented and unrelenting pressures. This issue includes a broad selection of the best papers submitted to the XIV World Forestry Congress (Durban, September 2015), as well as an overview of the Congress’s ambitious agenda and outcomes.
  • Thumbnail Image
    Book (series)
    Sustainable Wildlife Management - Unasylva 249 2017
    Also available in:
    Wildlife management is the focus of considerable international debate because of its importance for biodiversity conservation, human safety, livelihoods and food security. Local people have been managing wildlife for millennia, including through hunting. Sufficient examples are presented in this edition to show that sustainable wildlife management is also feasible in the modern era. In some cases, a sustainable offtake – by local people, trophy hunters and legitimate wildlife traders – is provin g vital to obtain local buy-in to wildlife management and to pay the costs of maintaining habitats. No doubt the debate will continue on the best ways to manage wildlife; this edition of Unasylva is a contribution to that.
  • Thumbnail Image
    Book (series)
    Greening cities for improving urban livelihoods
    Legal, policy and institutional aspects of urban and peri-urban forestry in West and Central Asia (with a case study of Armenia)
    2006
    Also available in:
    No results found.
    A thematic study on “Urban and peri-urban forestry” focuses on the potentials and constraints for urban forestry development at regional and sub-regional levels considering the current experience and future prospects of urbanization in the region that is expected to take place in the next 15 years. As a complement to this thematic Urban and peri-urban forestry study, a livelihoods analysis of the contribution of forests and trees to urban poor livelihoods has been carried out the Sub-programme o n access to natural resources of the Livelihood Support Programme (GCP/INT/803/UK). This paper presents the analysis. It represents part of an area of work on linkages between access to forest resources and poverty in West and Central Asia.
Show more

Users also downloaded

Showing related downloaded files

No results found.