Urban forests provide vital services to communities and are crucial for our mental, physical and emotional well-being. Recent research has shown that many variables at a neighbourhood-level are linked to variations in urban forest quantity, however, relationships at the property-level have not been considered. The purpose of this study was to examine the relationships at property-level in four socioeconomically varied neighbourhoods in the City of Mississauga (Ontario, Canada). Percent canopy cover and tree density was calculated using information from a survey, GIS datasets and remote sensing. Regression was used to determine which property-level characteristics are related to variations in the two tree cover variables. The results show that variables dealing with residents attitudes towards trees and space constraints are commonly linked to tree cover variations. The study found differences in relationships between the two tree measures at property-level and it provides greater insight into human-urban forest relationship at the micro-scale.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:TORONTO/oai:tspace.library.utoronto.ca:1807/33525 |
| Date | 26 November 2012 |
| Creators | Shakeel, Tooba |
| Contributors | Conway, Tenley |
| Source Sets | University of Toronto |
| Language | en_ca |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
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