Readings

ESRM 200

Society and Sustainable Forest Environments

North Cascades National Park, 2007

Readings

Publically available readings are included as links on the website. Readings with distribution restrictions are listed, but not linked on the site (they will be made available on electronic reserves). Articles from journals of the Ecological Society of America are used by permission.

(Full reading list to be posted soon)

Week 1

Introduction

Meinig, D. W. 1979. The beholding eye: ten versions of the same scene.

Sample criteria for evaluating the sustainability of community ideas and projects. Excerpts from draft documents from Sustainable Seattle.

Kaplan, R. 2002. The social values of forests and trees in urbanized societies. In: Konijnendijk CC, Koch NE, Hoyer KH, Schipperijn J, eds. Forestry Serving Urbanised Societies. (Proceedings of the IUFRO European Regional Conference, 27–30 August 2002, Copenhagen). Hoersholm, Denmark: Skov & Landskab

The University of Washington plant association master plan

Week 2

Forested environments along the urban to wildland gradient

Clawson, M. 1987. Achieving agreement on natural resource use. The XXVII Horace M. Albright Lectureship in Conservation. Berkeley, California.

Sustainability indicators: The Cascadia Scorecard and beyond

Dwyer, J.F., E.G. McPherson, H.W.Schroeder, and R.A. Rowntree. 1992. Assessing the benefits and costs of the urban forest. Journal of Arboriculture 18: 227-234.

Week 3

Settlement history of the Puget Sound region

Lawrence, H. W. 1995. Changing forms and persistent values: historical perspectives on the urban forest. Pages 17-40 in Bradley, G. A. (editor) Urban Forest Landscapes: Integrating Multidisciplinary Perspectives. University of Washington Press, Seattle, Washington.

Andranovich, G. and Lovrich, N. P. Jr. Local government then and now: the growth management challenge in the 1990s. Pages 159-179 in Nice, D. C, Pierce, J. C. and Sheldon, C. H. Government and Politics in the Evergreen State. Washington State University Press.

Gordon, S. 2007. State might need a new nickname. The News Tribune, April 1, 2007.

IPCC, 2007: Summary for Policymakers. In: Climate Change 2007: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability. Contribution of Working Group II to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, M.L. Parry, O.F. Canziani, J.P. Palutikof, P.J. van der Linden and C. E. Hanson, Eds., Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, pp. 7-22.

Optional:

IPCC, 2007: Summary for Policymakers. In: Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, S. Solomon, D. Qin, M. Manning, Z. Chen, M. Marquis, K.B. Averyt, M. Tignor and H.L. Miller, Eds., Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.

Week 4

Landscape Types—Street trees and local parks

Wolf, K.L. 2003. Public response to the urban forest in inner-city business districts. Journal of Arboriculture 29: 117-126.

Kuo, F. E. 2003. The role of arboriculture in a healthy social ecology. Journal of Arboriculture 29: 148-155.

Schroeder, H., Flannigan, J., and Coles, R. 2006. Residents’ attitudes toward street trees in the UK and U.S. communities. Arboriculture and Urban Forestry 32: 236-246.

McPherson, E. G. 2007. Benefit-based tree valuation. Arboriculture and Urban Forestry 33: 1-11.

Kaplan, R., J.E. Ivancich and R. De Young. 2007. Nearby nature in the city: preserving and enhancing livability. Ann Arbor, MI 48109: School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Michigan, Retrievable from DeepBlue: http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/48784 Warning: 27 MB file

Ames, B. and S. Dewald. 2003. Working proactively with developers to preserve urban trees. Cities 20: 95-100.

Lassar, T.J. Bellevue Downtown Park

Week 5

Landscape Types– Small subdivisions and Master Planned Communities

Clark, J. R. 1995. Fire-safe landscapes. Pages 164-172 in Bradley, G. A. (editor) Urban Forest Landscapes: Integrating Multidisciplinary Perspectives. University of Washington Press, Seattle, Washington.

Natural Lands Trust. 2001. Growing greener: conservation by design. Natural Lands Trust. Media, PA 19063. http://www.natlands.org

Miller, R.W. 1997. Planning and urban forestry. Pages 167-185 in Urban Forestry: Planning and Managing Urban Greenspaces. Prentice Hall. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey.

McFarland, K. 1994. Community Forestry and Urban Growth. Washington State Department of Natural Resources. Olympia, Washington.

Week 6

Landscape Types—Commercial Forest Plantations

Ribe, R.G. 1989. The aesthetics of forestry: what has empirical preference research taught us? Environmental Management 13: 55-74.

Washington Department of Natural Resources. The Future of Washington’s Forests Download and read the entire report. You can also download it here (16 MB file).

Week 7

Landscape Types—State Forest Lands

Pages 294—306 in Diamond, J. 2005. Collapse: how societies choose to fail or succeed. Penguin Group. New York, New York, USA.

Washington Department of Natural Resources. 2006. Policy for sustainable forests.

Week 8

Landscape Types—Federal Lands (National Forests, National Parks, Wilderness Areas)

Beatley, T. 2000. Preserving biodiversity: challenges for planners. Journal of the American Planning Association 66: 5-20.

Franklin, J. F. 1993. Preserving biodiversity: species, ecosystems, or landscapes? Ecological Applications 3:202-205.

Margules, C. R., and R. L. Pressey. 2000. Systematic conservation planning. Nature 405: 243-253.

The National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, as amended

Week 9

Group Presentations

Week 10

Group Presentations

Background Information

Background Reading

McPherson, E.G. 2001. Urban forestry: forestry’s final frontier? Presentation at the 2001 Starker Lecture Series, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR

Kaplan, S. 1992. The restorative environment: nature and the human experience. Pages 134-142 in The Role of Horticulture in Human Well-Being and Social Development. Timber Press. Portland, Oregon.

Haines, A. 2002. An innovative tool for managing rural residential development: a look at conservation subdivisions. The Land Use Tracker, Volume 2. Center for Land Use Education, WI. http://www.uwsp.edu/cnr/landcenter/Default.htm

Dwyer, J.F. D.J. Nowak, M.H. Noble, S.M. Sisinni. 2000. Connecting people with ecosystems in the 21st century: an assessment of our nation’s urban forests. Gneral Technical Report PNW-GTR-490. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station. 483p. Note: Read Chapter 3 and Chapter 4 (pages 47—73).

Cloud, J. 2007. My search for the perfect apple. Time: March 2, 2007, pp. 43-50.

Heimlich, R.E. and W.D. Anderson. 2001. Development at the urban fringe and beyond: impacts on agriculture and rural land. Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture. Agricultural Economic Report No. 803. USDA, Washington, D.C.

Seattle Green Factor brochure

The Endangered Species Act of 1973

The Health Forests Restoration Act of 2003

Related Organizations

Urban and suburban landscape issues

1) Washington State Growth Management Act

2) King County Comprehensive Plan (and related ordinances)

3) Seattle City Parks Urban Forest Management Plan