Urban Forestry & Urban Greening

One of the more popular periodical publications in the Miller Library is Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, a peer-reviewed, internationally-focused journal published 10 times per year. The publisher (Elsevier) describes the focus as “urban and peri-urban woody and non-woody vegetation and its use, planning, design, establishment and management.”

The editors accept submissions on a wide range of topics under the urban umbrella, including everything from the expected arboriculture and horticulture to urban planning and design, public health, and even environmental psychology. The intended audience includes academics but also policymakers and landscape professionals.

The current and upcoming issues demonstrate this breadth of topics. One report discusses stormwater infrastructure designs, showing that the preferences of professionals and laypeople are often quite different. Another article outlines the challenges of developing “an effective forest therapy program to manage academic stress in conservative societies,” using Malaysia as the model. Closer to home, researchers from the University of British Columbia study “urban green equity on the ground” using Portland (Oregon), Phoenix, and New York City as their models to compare.

Many of the articles are available to download from the journal’s website (linked from the Miller Library’s catalog entry); however, the library maintains a print collection dating from the release of volume 1 in 2002. Visit the library and browse through this impressive journal.

Published in Leaflet for Scholars, Volume 6, Issue 11, November 2019