Recent Progress in Urban Forest Planning and Monitoring

Dear Colleagues,

In order to tackle key challenges related to sustainable urban development, urban forests are widely recognized as effective nature-based solutions. Accordingly, several strategies and tree-planting campaigns are being launched worldwide, bringing out the need for synergies between central government regulations and local authorities implementation.

Besides the issue of multiple planning levels, advancing knowledge on other relevant topics is increasingly needed for making urban forestry and greening truly effective. In this respect, this Special Issue aims at collecting theoretical models as well as empirical studies concerning progress in urban green planning and monitoring. In particular, contributions on the following themes are welcome, though other relevant topics and reviews regarding urban forests will also be considered:

• Multi-disciplinary planning of urban and suburban green infrastructure;
• Combined environmental, societal, and economic challenges;
• Landscape ecological connectivity;
• Biodiversity conservation;
• Flows of service and disservices at multiple scales and in different geographic contexts;
• Resilience of cities against habitat and climate changes;
• Multi-temporal monitoring of ecosystem conditions;
• Long-term versus short-term balance between benefits and damages.

Dr. Giulia Capotorti
Dr. Simone Valeri
Guest Editors

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