What role do trees play in the city?

What role do trees play in the city? - Bastien Castagneyrol - Éditions Quae

What role do trees play in the city?

Between benefits and constraints

by Bastien Castagneyrol (author)

Collection: Enjeux sciences

august 2026

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Summary

Greening cities is a key strategy for adapting to climate change. Trees play a major role in regulating the urban climate, improving quality of life, and preserving biodiversity. They also enjoy broad public support, as evidenced by the many tree-planting projects promoted by municipalities. Taken together, the trees in a city—its urban forest—provide numerous benefits to city dwellers from cooling the urban environment to reducing pollution and stress. Managing urban trees and, more generally, caring for them should be everyone’s responsibility. But due to a lack of shared knowledge, combined with the complex interplay between ecological and social issues makes this task extremely difficult.Trees are living organisms whose needs do not always align with with those of city dwellers, urban planners, or elected officials. This raises a seemingly simple question: Do trees belong in the city? This book brings together different perspectives on this issue through a multidisciplinary scientific lens. The goal is to enable everyone to form an informed and unbiased opinion on this subject by unraveling the complexity of the issues related to the presence of trees in urban environments.

Table of contents

Introduction

1. What is a tree?

The botanist’s answer

The ecologist’s answer

The urban planner’s answer

The importance of integrating different perspectives

2. What is an urban forest?

The urban forest is rich in species but poor in diversity

The urban forest is heterogeneous

Urban tree form is shaped by humans

An inverted J-shaped demographic curve

The urban forest is largely privately owned

Trees are not alone

The urban forest is not managed like a forest

3. An urban forest: For whom, and for what purpose?

Concepts of ecosystem services and disservices

Changes in climate at different scales

Changes in air quality

Contribution to well-being

4. How does the urban forest cope with global changes?

Climate change threatens urban trees

City lights alter the physiology and phenology of trees

Urban trees facing biotic threats

Preparing the urban forest to cope with multiple, interacting risks

5. What kinds of trees and forests for tomorrow’s cities?

Caring for existing trees

Renewing the urban forest

Trees for everyone

Seven commandments for the urban forest of tomorrow

6. What are the priorities for urban forest research?

Research remains fragmented

Planting trees won’t be enough

Thinking about the urban forest beyond trees

A final word

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Features

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Language(s): French

Publisher: Éditions Quae

Collection: Enjeux sciences

Published: 27 august 2026

EAN13 eBook [PDF]: 9782759243112

EAN13 eBook [ePub]: 9782759243129

DOI eBook [PDF] : 10.35690/978-2-7592-4311-2

Pages count eBook [PDF]: 108

Pages count eBook [ePub]: 108

Interior: Colour

Reference eBook [PDF]: 03070NUM

Reference eBook [ePub]: 03070EPB

Size: 2.95 MB (PDF), 3.05 MB (ePub)