A Forest in the City - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Forest in the City write by Andrea Curtis. This book was released on 2020-04-01. A Forest in the City available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This beautiful book of narrative non-fiction looks at the urban forest and dives into the question of how we can live in harmony with city trees. “Imagine a city draped in a blanket of green ... Is this the city you know?” A Forest in the City looks at the urban forest, starting with a bird’s-eye view of the tree canopy, then swooping down to street level, digging deep into the ground, then moving up through a tree’s trunk, back into the leaves and branches. Trees make our cities more beautiful and provide shade but they also fight climate change and pollution, benefit our health and connections to one another, provide food and shelter for wildlife, and much more. Yet city trees face an abundance of problems, such as the abundance of concrete, poor soil and challenging light conditions. So how can we create a healthy environment for city trees? Urban foresters are trying to create better growing conditions, plant diverse species, and maintain trees as they age. These strategies, and more, reveal that the urban forest is a complex system—A Forest in the City shows readers we are a part of it. Includes a list of activities to help the urban forest and a glossary. The ThinkCities series is inspired by the urgency for new approaches to city life as a result of climate change, population growth and increased density. It highlights the challenges and risks cities face, but also offers hope for building resilience, sustainability and quality of life as young people act as advocates for themselves and their communities. Key Text Features diagrams author's note glossary sources definitions Correlates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.4.7 Interpret information presented visually, orally, or quantitatively (e.g., in charts, graphs, diagrams, time lines, animations, or interactive elements on Web pages) and explain how the information contributes to an understanding of the text in which it appears.
The Forest and the City
The Forest and the City - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Forest and the City write by Cecil C. Konijnendijk. This book was released on 2018-03-12. The Forest and the City available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Amsterdamse Bos, Bois de Boulognes, Epping Forest, Hong Kong’s country parks, Stanley Park: throughout history cities across the world have developed close relationships with nearby woodland areas. In some cases, cities have even developed – and in some cases are promoting – a distinct ‘forest identity’. This book introduces the rich heritage of these city forests as cultural landscapes, and shows that cities and forests can be mutually beneficial. Essential reading for students and researchers interested in urban sustainability and urban forestry, this book also has much wider appeal. For with city forests playing an increasingly important role in local government sustainability programs, it provides an important reference for those involved in urban planning and decision making, public affairs and administration, and even public health. From providers of livelihoods to healthy recreational environments, and from places of inspiration and learning to a source of conflict, the book presents examples of city forests from around the world. These cases clearly illustrate how the social and cultural development of towns and forests has often gone hand in hand. They also reveal how better understanding of city forests as distinct cultural and social phenomena can help to strengthen synergies both between cities and forests, and between urban society and nature.
City of Trees
City of Trees - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook City of Trees write by Sophie Cunningham. This book was released on 2019-04-02. City of Trees available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A rich and insightful collection of personal essays about life, death and our connection to the environment from bestselling Australian author Sophie Cunningham
Tolkien
Tolkien - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Tolkien write by Helen Conrad-O'Briain. This book was released on 2013. Tolkien available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Drawing on a wide variety of critical approaches, from philology to ecocriticism ... this collection explores the interaction of culture and nature that imbue's Tolkien's secondary world with the immediacy of our own"--Dust jacket flap.
Fire in the Forest! (LEGO City)
Fire in the Forest! (LEGO City) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Fire in the Forest! (LEGO City) write by Samantha Brooke. This book was released on 2014-05-27. Fire in the Forest! (LEGO City) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Reading is always fun in Lego City! When a forest fire breaks out in LEGO City it's up to the LEGO City fireman to put out the flames!
