Özet:

Plenty of environmental challenges are aggravated within the urban landscape such as stormwater runoff , flood risk, particulate pollution , carbon footprint. Urbanization, which has gained a dramatic acceleration by industrialization movement, is a powerful stressor on biodiversity, bio-geo-chemical cycles, hydrology, climate. In this regard, urban trees and forests can be evaluated by means of their positive effects on urban water, temperature, earth and pollution cycles. Urban forests present important opportunities in order to pay-back and re-gain the undertakings of intensive construction. They can compensate habitat fragmentation and create green patches/corridors within the grey urban landscape. They provide a lot of psycho-social - recreative, meditative, mental, spiritual, emotional - benefits for the urban dweller. They develop social cohesion and promote outdoor activity. In this paper, multifaceted ecological services provided by urban forests will be taken into account and contributions that can be put forth by the urban green infrastructure towards establishing resilient, sustainable cities will be evaluated.

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