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Urban and Community Forestry in the Northeast

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  • © 2007

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Editors:
  1. John E. Kuser

    1. State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, USA

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  • The most complete text in this field because it addresses both culture and management
  • Each chapter is written by an expert practicing in that sub-discipline
  • Provides observations and examples relevant to every urban center in the U.S. and elsewhere
  • State of the art information on the effects of trees in the urban environment
  • Written in straight-forward language so that all readers can understand

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Table of contents (26 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxx
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  2. Origins of Urban Forestry

    • Henry D. Gerhold
    Pages 1-23

  3. Understanding the Benefits and Costs of Urban Forest Ecosystems

    • David J. Nowak, John F. Dwyer
    Pages 25-46

  4. Arboriculture Law in the Northeast

    • Victor D. Merullo
    Pages 47-62

  5. Tree Ordinances

    • Michael V. D'Errico
    Pages 63-78

  6. Using Comprehensive Planning to Conserve the Natural Environment

    • William F. Elmendorf
    Pages 79-98

  7. Urban and Community Forestry: Planning and Design

    • Steven Strom
    Pages 99-117

  8. Tree Inventory and Systematic Management

    • Richard S. Wolowicz, Michael Gera
    Pages 119-131

  9. Urban and Community Forestry Financing and Budgeting

    • Robert L. Tate
    Pages 133-146

  10. Community Involvement in Urban Forestry Programs

    • James Nichnadowicz
    Pages 147-163

  11. Soils: The Key to Successful Establishment of Urban Vegetation

    • George A. Hawver, Nina L. Bassuk
    Pages 165-182

  12. Selecting Trees for Community Landscapes

    • Henry D. Gerhold, William Porter
    Pages 183-198

  13. Guide to Selecting and Specifying Nursery Stock

    • Jim Sellmer, Larry Kuhns
    Pages 199-219

  14. Planting and Maintenance

    • James W. Consolloy
    Pages 221-236

  15. Pruning

    • David L. Johnson
    Pages 237-247

  16. Trees, Utilities, and Municipalities

    • Robert F. Lee, Richard S. Wolowicz
    Pages 249-260

  17. Tree Roots versus Sidewalks and Sewers

    • William R. Comery
    Pages 261-276

  18. Hazard Tree Inspection, Evaluation, and Management

    • E. Thomas Smiley, Bruce R. Fraedrich, Peter Fengler
    Pages 277-294

  19. Integrated Pest Management

    • Deborah Smith-Fiola
    Pages 295-322

  20. Tree Appraisal: The Goal is Equity

    • James B. Ingram
    Pages 323-347
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About this book

During the latter part of 2004, Helen Buitenkamp of Springer Publishing emailed me that the first edition of Handbook of Urban and Community Forestry in the Northeast is the best volume in its field and inquired whether we’d be interested in compiling a second edition; I replied that we certainly would, and started working on it imme- ately. We have revised 14 out of 26 chapters in the first edition, and added two new authors. Many things in urban forestry have changed a great deal, while others have not changed at all. Henry Gerhold has written an entirely new Chapter 1 based on a book that he and his graduate student Stacy Franks have written entitled “Our Heritage of Community Trees. ”Dave Nowak has included the most up-to-date inf- mation on the environmental effects of trees in Chapter 2, and Peter Fengler and Tom Smiley have done the same with the diagnosis and treatment of hazard trees in Chapter 17. All told, we have revised or replaced 16 chapters of the original 26; we’ve kept 10 chapters as originally written, and substituted two entirely new chapters, 1 and 14, respectively. With the emergence of urban and community forestry as the fastest growing part of our profession in the last several years, the need for a book such as this inevitably developed. The Society of American Foresters’ urban forestry working group counts over 40 universities now offering courses in this subject, and the number is growing.

Reviews

From the reviews of the second edition:

"This is the best urban forestry text published in recent years. … The second edition of Kuser’s popular … volume includes 16 new or revised chapters of 26 total. It is a wonderful compilation of information pertinent to this rapidly growing field, which offers tremendous job opportunities as the population continues to urbanize. … this book is destined to be a classic--one that this reviewer plans to use in his own course on the subject next year. Summing Up: Essential. All levels." (D. F. Karnosky, CHOICE, Vol. 44 (10), June, 2007)

Editors and Affiliations

  • State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, USA

    John E. Kuser

About the editor

John Kuser has taught Urban Forestry, Dendrology, Forest Ecology and Silvics, Forest Genetics, and Introduction to the Forestry Profession at Cook College, Rutgers University, for 30 years. He has advised approximately 10 undergraduates per year, and 2-3 M.S. and Ph.D. candidates per year. His fields of interest include regional genetics of Atlantic White-cedar, Eastern White Pine, Coast Redwood and Dawn Redwood, on all of which he has published several papers each.

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