Urban forestry in India: development and research scenario
Urban forestry in India: development and research scenario
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印度的城市林业：发展和研究情景
DOI：
10.1504/ier.2011.038881
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发表时间：
2011
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通讯作者：
V. Tewari
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作者：
P. Chaudhry;V. Tewari
城市绿地是城市生态系统不可或缺的组成部分，有助于提高环境质量、生活质量和可持续城市发展。过去二十年的科学证据强调了城市社会生态系统中绿地对于改善城市文化的一些问题的至关重要性。鉴于城市人口不断增加，特别是在发展中国家，公园和花园的作用变得更加重要。这些绿色资产提供的有形和无形效益往往被公众和一些城市当局视为理所当然。与其他发展中经济体一样，印度的城市化进程正在加快。一般来说，与发达国家相比，发展中国家城市的人均城市绿地可用性较低。包括印度在内的发展中国家缺乏涉及技术和社会科学方面的城市林业研究。本文讨论了印度一些重要城市的人均城市绿地可用性以及对该国城市绿地各个方面进行城市林业研究的需求。
Urban green spaces are integral components of urban ecosystems, contributing to enhanced environmental quality, quality of life and sustainable urban development. Scientific evidences in the last two decades have emphasised the crucial necessity of green areas within urban social-ecological systems to ameliorate several problems of city-culture. Role of parks and gardens has become much more important in view of ever-increasing population of cities, particularly in developing countries. Tangible and intangible benefits provided by these green assets are often taken for granted by the public and some city authorities. Like other developing economies, India is being urbanised at a faster pace. Generally, cities of developing countries have lower per capita availability of urban green spaces in comparison to the developed countries. Urban forestry studies, involving technical and social science aspects are lacking in developing countries, including India. Per capita availability of urban green spaces in some important cities of India and need for urban forestry research on various aspects of urban greens of the country is discussed in the article.