Climate-adaptive management of urban trees and forests
The main concern of this project is the cost-effective use and promotion of the climate-adaptive ecosystem services that urban trees and forests offer as an existing resource. This outstanding importance is still too little recognised in Switzerland and insufficiently integrated in strategic as well as operational planning. With the open source application i‑Tree, structural and quantitative strengths and deficits can be identified on a science-based basis. The project enables the combination of this information with interdisciplinary strategies and applications, allowing creative solutions to be developed to improve the climate-adaptive benefits of urban trees and forests. This project will improve the ability of Swiss cities to provide large canopy volumes in the long term, to plan locally in a concrete way and to manage them sustainably, as vital, large canopies are especially important for providing ecosystem services to ensure climate-adaptive management of green resources.
