Health and climate related ecosystem services provided by street trees in the urban environment

Urban tree planting initiatives are being actively promoted as a planning tool to enable urban areas to adapt to and mitigate against climate change, enhance urban sustainability and improve human health and well-being. However, opportunities for creating new areas of green space within cities are often limited and tree planting initiatives may be constrained to kerbside locations. At this scale, the net impact of trees on human health and the local environment is less clear, and generalised approaches for evaluating their impact are not well developed.In this review, we use an urban ecosystems services framework to evaluate the direct, and locally-generated, ecosystems services and disservices provided by…

• LS
  London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
• NI
  National Institute for Health Research Health Protection Research Unit
• NI
  National Institute for Health and Care Research
• UO
  University of Exeter
• UC
  University College London
• MO
  Met Office
• UO
  University of Auckland
• PH
  Public Health England
• FW
  Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek