Readings

Readings – EN

• When the big storm hits

  – the role of wetlands to limit urban and rural flood damage (July 2017 report)

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• Vanishing: More Than 1 in 4 Birds Has Disappeared in the Last 50 Years

  (19 September 2019)

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• Valuing Toronto’s faith congregations

  (June 2016 study)

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• Valuing ecosystem services for urban planning

  (Dec 2014)

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• Urban Heat Island Effect: The Fine-grained Picture

  (9 April 2019)

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• Urban green spaces: An integrative approach

  (2011 article)

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• Urban greenness and mortality in Canada’s largest cities: a national cohort study

  (Oct 2017)

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• Urban Forests and the Wood Wide Web

  (February 2018)

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• Upholding science-based risk assessment under a weakened Endangered Species Act

  (10 December 2020 article)

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• Trees: Four book reviews

  (from the Globe & Mail, 31 July 2021)

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• The landscape architect making friends with flooding

  (December 21, 2021 article)

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• The Case for Saving Natural Areas

  (May 2014)

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• The Best Dose of Nature and Green Exercise for Improving Mental Health – A Multi-study Analysis

  (March 2010)

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• TEEB Manual for Cities

  (2012 report; 2014, 2019 updates)

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• Suburban Sprawl: Exposing Hidden Costs, Identifying Innovations

  (Oct 2013 report)

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• Structural and Functional Loss in Restored Wetland Ecosystems

  (2012 article)

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• Street trees and health in Toronto, and other tales

  (21 September 2016)

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• Role of small water bodies in landscape nutrient processing

  (June 2017 article)

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• Residential green space and child intelligence and behavior

  (18 August 2020)

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• Randy Boswell on the Rideau River

  (7 Ottawa Citizen articles, July 5 – August 17, 2021)

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• Progress in natural capital accounting for ecosystems

  (31 January 2020)

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• Philadelphia aiming to be “Greenest City in America”

  (20 Jan 2014)

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• Oxford Forum for Sustainable Cities 2015

  (1 Oct 2015)

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• Overcoming societal addictions: What can we learn from individual therapies?

  (October 2016 article)

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• Ontario Communities Sustainability Report, and other comparables

  (2007)

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• On cats killing birds

  (2015 article; 2016, 2021 updates)

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• OBEC workshop on conservation of habitat

  (28 October 2017)

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• New medicinal plants book Canada

  (May 2007)

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• NCC Lands: The dollar value of their ecological goods and services

  (Dec 2016 study)

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• More green space makes for healthier babies

  (July 2014 article)

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• Mental Health Benefits of the Outdoors

  (29 January 2020)

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• Living in the Land

  (Lorne Peterson)

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• Lessons on wetland offsetting for Ontario

  (July 2017 report; June 2023 update)

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• Land use in the 905: Sibbald Photography

  (June 2007)

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• Important report on systemic insecticides and pollinators

  (2012 report)

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• How nature nurtures: Amygdala activity decreases as the result of a one-hour walk in nature

  (September 2022 article)

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• How communities can take action to reduce runoff and runoff pollution

  (July 2017)

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• Green spaces and health: References

  (2008; 2013; 2015; 2019)

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• Greenspace and Health: Some Statistics Canada and other Resources

  (January 2024)

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• Green infrastructure: Cost comparison

  (Oct 2014)

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• Greenbelt Natural Resource Bibliography

  – 1969-2011 (NCC document)

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• Exposure to natural environment makes you behave less impulsively

  (2014 article)

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• Ecological responses to habitat fragmentation per se

  (2017 article)

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• Ecodesign for Cities and Suburbs

  (Jun/Oct 2015)

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• Cornelia Hahn Oberlander: Landscape architect par excellence

  (Aug-Sep 2016; May 2021)

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• Constructed wetlands: References

  (July 2017)

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• Conservation of birds in fragmented landscapes requires protected areas

  (March 2022 article)

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• Conservation Action Planning

  (A-to-A webinar, 6 June 2017)

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• Community Stewardship and Biodiversity Enhancement of Public Greenspaces

  (April 2023 article)

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• Combatting soil erosion

  (July 2007)

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• Cities: More-than-human

  (25 October 2018)

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• Chicago updates its 2006 Nature and Wildlife Plan

  (2011)

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• Carbon abatement from planting street trees in New York City

  (2013 article)

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• Bird song and mental health

  (two October 2022 articles)

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• Beyond Green Buildings

  (NCC Urbanism Lab, 20 November 2018)

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• Benefits of Urban Greenspace

  (May 2017)

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• Atlanta’s Emerald Necklace

  (June 2007)

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• A framework for the practical science necessary to restore … ecosystems

  (December 2016 article)

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