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The Urban Forest can be viewed as a ‘living technology’, a key component of the urban green infrastructure that helps maintain a healthy environment for urban dwellers.
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Resilience in this context is a measure of robustness and buffering capacity of the ecosystem to changing conditions (Holling 1986).
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Zürcher, N., Andreucci, M.B. (2017). Growing the Urban Forest: Our Practitioners’ Perspective. In: Pearlmutter, D., et al. The Urban Forest. Future City, vol 7. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50280-9_24
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