Urban Forestry: Management of Sustainable Landscapes
A special issue of Forests (ISSN 1999-4907). This special issue belongs to the section "Urban Forestry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 28 March 2026 | Viewed by 628
Special Issue Editors
Interests: urban tree; urban forestry; urban landscape; public health; remote sensing
Interests: urban landscape; urban heat; air quality; human well-being; forest management
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
As urban areas continue to expand, urban forests—including street trees, parks, green corridors, and peri-urban woodlands—are becoming essential to enhancing ecological integrity, supporting biodiversity, contributing to climate resilience, and sequestering carbon. This Special Issue focuses, therefore, on the role of urban forestry in shaping and managing sustainable landscapes within cities and urban regions.
We invite contributions that advance the science, planning, and management of urban forestry from ecological, technical, and governance perspectives; interdisciplinary approaches that integrate ecological theory with practical applications in urban landscape management are especially welcome.
Areas of interest include, but are not limited to, the following topics:
- Urban forest composition, structure, and spatial configuration;
- Biodiversity conservation in urban and peri-urban forests;
- Tree species selection, planting design, and resilience;
- Ecosystem services and ecological functions of urban trees;
- Carbon sequestration and climate mitigation through urban forestry;
- Remote sensing and geospatial analysis of urban forests;
- Soil and water management in urban forest systems;
- Urban forest governance, planning, and policy;
- Monitoring, risk assessment, and maintenance strategies;
- Nature-based solutions for sustainable urban development.
This Special Issue seeks to highlight innovative research and best practices that inform the sustainable management of urban forests as vital components of resilient and multifunctional urban landscapes.
Dr. Dengkai Chi
Dr. Jingli Yan
Dr. Jia Wang
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- urban forestry
- nature-based solutions
- sustainable landscape management
- urban heat island
- air pollution
- ecosystem services
- remote sensing
- biodiversity
- urban forest planning
- equity of urban forests
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