Integrating urban forestry into compact, climate resilient cities : policies and pathways
department or school: Forestry, Faculty of
data provider: DSpace
degree campus: UBCV
creator: Cheng, Zhaohua
issued: 2023-04-20T21:27:13Z
issued: 2023
related degree: Doctor of Philosophy - PhD
degree grantor: University of British Columbia
description: Cities are leading contributors to climate change while also suffering severe climate change impacts. In response, many cities have introduced climate change policies to guide the planning and implementation of local climate action. While most municipal climate action is focused on densification, building energy use and transportation, there is increasing recognition and integration of urban forests into cities’ climate change policies. However, the integration of urban forests may conflict with other climate measures (e.g., efforts to build compact communities), creating barriers to effective policy implementation. There is still limited understanding of the alignment and interactions among municipal policies relating to urban forestry, climate action, and climate-focused urban planning. This dissertation aims to address this research gap by conducting the following three connected studies. The first study examined the extent of alignment and integration between climate change policies and urban forestry policies in the 20 largest Canadian cities. Key policy gaps and discrepancies were identified across and within cities, especially in the use of terminologies, stakeholder engagement, maintenance priorities and practices. The second study aimed to identify key synergies and trade-offs in the policy-implementation-outcome spectrum of municipal policies relating to climate action, urban planning, and urban forestry through conducting semi-structured interviews with experts from Metro Vancouver, Canada. The findings highlighted significant trade-offs and synergies among policies, implementation processes and outcomes, especially in the areas of (re)development and infrastructure. The final study aimed to explore plausible urban forestry policy intervention solutions related to themes identified in the previous interviews. Modelled scenarios of urban form and urban forests in a hypothetical densifying urban neighbourhood were analyzed. Crucial urban greening opportunit…
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note: INTEGRATING URBAN FORESTRY INTO COMPACT, CLIMATE RESILIENT CITIES: POLICIES AND PATHWAYS by Zhaohua (Cindy) Cheng B.Sc., The University of British Columbia, 2013 M.Sc., The University of British Columbia, 2016 A THESIS SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY in THE FACULTY OF GRADUATE AND POSTDOCTORAL STUDIES (Forestry) THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA (Vancouver) April 2023 © Zhaohua Cheng, 2023 ii The following individuals certify that they have read, and recommend to the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies for acceptance, the dissertation entitled: Integrating urban forestry into compact, climate resilient cities: policies and pathways submitted by Zhaohua (Cindy) Cheng in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Forestry Examining Committee: Stephen Sheppard, Professor Emeritus, Forestry, UBC Co-supervisor Lorien Nesbitt, Assistant Professor, Forestry, UBC Co-supervisor Cynthia Girling, Professor, Architecture and Landscape Architecture, UBC Supervisory Committee Member Patrick Condon, Professor, Architecture and Landscape Architecture, UBC University Examiner Sarah Gergel, Professor, Forestry, UBC University Examiner Additional Supervisory Committee Members: Cecil Konijnendijk, Director, Nature Based Solutions Institute Supervisory Committee Member iii Abstract Cities are leading contributors to climate change while also suffering severe climate change impacts. In response, many cities have introduced climate change policies to guide the planning and implementation of local climate action. While most municipal climate action is focused on densification, building energy use and transportation, there is increasing recognition and integration of urban forests into cities’ climate change policies. However, the integration of urban forests may conflict with other climate measures (e.g., efforts to build compact communities), creating barriers to effective policy im…
has type: Thesis/Dissertation
date issued: 2023-05
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0431336
language: eng
degree discipline: Forestry
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: University of British Columbia
rights: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
rights URI: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
scholar level: Graduate
contributor: Sheppard, S. R. J. (Stephen Richard John), 1952-
contributor: Nesbitt, Lorien
type: Text
identifier URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/84382