Research
TDAG exhibition at NLA
Tree benefit analysis
The Trees & Design Action Group and the RIBA Urban Tree Knowledge Community recently hosted a breakfest seminar at New London Architecture.
The seminar was hosted by Sir Terry Farrell and was designed to engage developers, designers and planners in the importance of urban trees.
One of the methods for raising the importance of trees in the built environment is to assign a financial value on the ecosystem services trees perform, from reduced air pollution to the amount of carbon dioxide removed.
Tobay Council have conducted a pilot study using
i-tree. The software, developed by the United States Forest Service, is designed to quantify the economic, environmental and social value of trees in towns and cities - in short put a dollar sign in front of them
The tool was used by New York City in 2010 which calculated that investing $1 dollar in the urban forest yields a benefit of $5 - prompting a programme to plant a million more trees in the next ten years
You can download the findings from Torbay, as well as other presentations from day, below:
The Trees & Design Action Group and the RIBA Urban Tree Knowledge Community recently hosted a breakfest seminar at New London Architecture.
The seminar was hosted by Sir Terry Farrell and was designed to engage developers, designers and planners in the importance of urban trees.
One of the methods for raising the importance of trees in the built environment is to assign a financial value on the ecosystem services trees perform, from reduced air pollution to the amount of carbon dioxide removed.
Tobay Council have conducted a pilot study using
i-tree. The software, developed by the United States Forest Service, is designed to quantify the economic, environmental and social value of trees in towns and cities - in short put a dollar sign in front of them
The tool was used by New York City in 2010 which calculated that investing $1 dollar in the urban forest yields a benefit of $5 - prompting a programme to plant a million more trees in the next ten years
You can download the findings from Torbay, as well as other presentations from day, below:
| i_tree.pdf |
| Taking tree benefit analysis across the UK: Martin Kelly, TDAG Chairman |
