First Steps in Urban Tree Canopy Cover: A Strategic Approach for Urban Forest Planning

There are continued calls for increases in urban tree cover across our cities driven by policies around climate adaptation, mitigation, levelling up and social justice. UTCC metrics can be useful for a number of reasons such as to provide a proxy for ecosystem benefits, to monitor change over time and space, to support tree population resilience planning or climate adaptation to prioritise areas for increasing canopy cover to deliver tree equity.

​Available here: https://doi.org/10.25500/epapers.bham.00004109.