COVID-19 pandemic observations as a trigger to reflect on urban forestry in European cities under climate change: Introducing nature-society-based solutions

Resource type: 
Research
EU project stamp: 
No
Main entity: 
Humboldt University of Berlin
Societal challenges: 
Health
Health, Wellbeing & Air Quality
Scope: 
Europe
Description: 

COVID-19 pandemic observations triggered a reflection by the author on urban forests in European cities under climate change as nature-society-based solutions. This commentary introduces a complementary triad of approaches that are all known but might lead to a novel view of urban nature, including forests, regarding changes in pandemic diseases and/or related to urbanization and climate change: Hybridity, succession, and flexibility.

Date: 
2021
Journal: 
Urban Forestry & Urban GreeningAffiliation: Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Germany
Language: 
EN