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Sto caricando le informazioni... Urban Forests: A Natural History of Trees and People in the American Cityscape (edizione 2017)di Jill Jonnes (Autore)
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![]() Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. My family moved to Jacksonville, IL, nicknamed Elm City, in 1979. By then the elms were already gone. We first lived on Grove St. which supposedly had had that famous cathedral arch effect of elms. Pictures of that street and others taken before Dutch elm disease struck Jacksonville seem like they're from another world. Now, in 2017, ashes are being clear cut all over my current home of Champaign because of emerald ash borers. Urban Forests gives an excellent overview of these and other infestations and cities' responses to them, including the newer, proactive ethos of managing treescapes for their health and economic benefits. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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"Nature's largest and longest-lived creations, trees play an extraordinarily important role in our cityscapes, living landmarks that define space, cool the air, soothe our psyches, and connect us to nature and our past. Today, four fifths of Americans live in or near cities, surrounded by millions of trees, urban forests containing hundreds of species. Despite the ubiquity and familiarity of those trees, most of us take them for granted and know little of their specific natural history or civic virtues. Jill Jonnes's Urban Forests is a passionate, wide-ranging, and fascinating natural history of the tree in American cities over the course of the past two centuries. Jonnes's survey ranges from early sponsors for the Urban Tree Movement to the fascinating stories of particular species (including Washington, DC's famed cherry trees, and the American chestnut and elm, and the diseases that almost destroyed them) to the institution of Arbor Day to the most recent generation of tree evangelists who are identifying the best species to populate our cities' leafy canopies. The book examines such questions as the character of American urban forests and the effect that tree-rich landscaping might have on commerce, crime, and human well-being. As we wrestle with how to repair the damage we have wrought on nature and how to slow climate change, urban forests offer an obvious, low-tech solution. (In 2006, U.S. Forest Service scientist Greg McPherson and his colleagues calculated that New York City's 592,000 street trees annually saved $28 million in energy costs through shading and cooling, or $47.63 per tree.)"--Amazon.com. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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The main tree deaths are:
Chapter 4. A Plague Strikes the American Chestnut
Chapter 9. Battling to Save [the American Elm]
Chapter 16. Asian Long-Horned Beetles
Chapter 18. Waging War on the Emerald Ash Borer
Fundamentally one theme is that ecological disasters can happen and our society, our government and our research systems are not good at dealing with them.
The arc of the story around the Chestnut, Elm, Ash and the Asian Long-Horned Beetles is such a tale of neglect, underallocated resources, misallocated resources, and disaster that it makes for pretty depressing reading, particularly since there is no grand resolution at the end. (