What is it about?
This paper shows that there is a considerable amount of support among some suburban residents for using trees to cool cities. Our research shows that residents are aware of climate change and concerned about it. Less well off residents are paying more for electricity but don't fully appreciate that planting more trees could lower energy costs.
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Why is it important?
Policy-makers and planners need to know that there is a broad level of support in the community for urban greening. If that support exists, they may be prepared to put a stronger case forwards to decision-makers such as elected representatives.
Perspectives
This is one of the first studies of its kind in Australia and internationally. It has already resulted in invited talks to planners, policy makers, developers and tree managers. It shows that we have the support needed to take action and its give some good guidance about what action will work best. Evidence like this is essentially for better policy making and better city building.
Jason Byrne
Griffith University
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This page is a summary of: Could urban greening mitigate suburban thermal inequity?: the role of residents’ dispositions and household practices, Environmental Research Letters, September 2016, Institute of Physics Publishing,
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/11/9/095014.
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