Abstract

Assessing Benefits of an Urban Forest: Tools for a Web Application
Track: Conservation
Authors: Tait Rounsaville

With an increase in needs for budget reassessment and infrastructure redevelopment in Claremont, CA, it is becoming more important to understand the cost of preserving the city’s urban forest. By creating a way to calculate the potential value of having these trees and paying to keep them maintained and healthy, the city can see how doing so will create savings, therefore encouraging the support of policies which will help continue the city’s practice of a sustainable and healthy place to live.