Summary of “The Importance of Urban Forests”<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.6.2″ _module_preset=”default”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.6.2″ _module_preset=”default”][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/chelsyzugazaga2\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11621\/2020\/11\/enrique-amaya-Q0rRRAcYORQ-unsplash-scaled.jpg” title_text=”enrique-amaya-Q0rRRAcYORQ-unsplash” _builder_version=”4.6.2″ _module_preset=”default”][\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.6.2″ _module_preset=”default”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.6.2″ _module_preset=”default”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.6.2″ _module_preset=”default” text_font=”Lato||||||||”]
\u00a0In 2016, Amy Fleming, in an article for The Guardian, titled: \u201cWhy money really does grows on trees.\u201d\u00a0explores the diverse dependencies humans have on forestry, specifically in urban cities, where 50% of the world’s population resides.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Amy thoroughly examines the ecological, socio-economic and psychological findings in relation to the impact of tree populations in our cities, along with the sociological effects on the environment that we\u2019re facing in today’s world.<\/p>\n
In Amy’s research she asserts that trees are financially and ecologically interwoven with areas such as our clean air supply, reduced flooding and \u201cair-born pollutants\u201d (Fleming) Trees also significantly decrease air conditioning usage, where she states \u201c[t]rees can cool cities by between 2C to 8C.\u201d (Fleming).\u00a0<\/p>\n
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We also see through her findings, when there are more trees in cities, anaylitical studies have shown a decrease in depression and anxiety, an \u201cimprove[d] health perception\u201d (qtd. Berman) and astounding correlations between trees and healthy babies as well as reduced \u201cmortality from circulatory diseases.\u201d (qtd. Mitchell)<\/p>\n
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These vital connections that Amy so thoroughly highlights reveals the astronomical consequences to human beings in our urban communities, if we do not proactively tackle threats like \u201cdisease and shrinking municipal budgets.\u201d(qtd. Jones) We must do everything we can to educate, learn and honour our trees for our future and generations to come.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Fleming, Amy. \u201cWhy money really does grows on trees.\u201d<\/i> <\/span>The Guardian<\/i><\/span>, 12 October, 2016, https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/cities\/2016\/oct\/12\/ importance-urban-forests-money-grow-trees<\/p>\n <\/p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Summary of “The Importance of Urban Forests”\u00a0In 2016, Amy Fleming, in an article for The Guardian, titled: \u201cWhy money really does grows on trees.\u201d\u00a0explores the diverse dependencies humans have on forestry, specifically in urban cities, where 50% of the world’s population resides.\u00a0 Amy thoroughly examines the ecological, socio-economic and psychological findings in relation to the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11567,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-7"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/chelsyzugazaga2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/chelsyzugazaga2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/chelsyzugazaga2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/chelsyzugazaga2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11567"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/chelsyzugazaga2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/chelsyzugazaga2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":316,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/chelsyzugazaga2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308\/revisions\/316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/chelsyzugazaga2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/chelsyzugazaga2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eportfolios.capilanou.ca\/chelsyzugazaga2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}