Sentences with phrase «on urban forestry»

For the 16th year, the City of Albany was recognized as a «Tree City USA,» that status achieved by maintaining a tree board or department, having a community tree ordinance, spending at least $ 2 per capita on urban forestry and celebrating Arbor Day.

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The study, published this month in the journal of Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, draws on Seattle's current land use, light availability and national nutritional guidelines to determine the city's carrying capacity for feeding its population.

Friends of the Urban Forest Through its Urban Forestry Program, Friends of the Urban Forest provides training and hands - on internships in Urban Tree Care for youth ages 14 - 18.

In 14 chapters experts provide a «state of the art» of the knowledge and experience gained since the mid nineties of the past century in different types of urban agriculture (horticulture, forestry, livestock, aquaculture) and various key issues for policymaking and planning on urban agriculture (multi-stakeholder involvement and gender issues, integration in urban land use planning and multiple land use, economic aspects and marketing, productive reuse of urban organic wastes and waste water, technology development for urban agriculture and financing urban agriculture.

COOPI (Italy, project coordination) and RUAF Foundation (the Netherlands), in cooperation with institutions and organisations involved in the Freetown Multi-Stakeholder Forum on Urban Agriculture and Food Security (including the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Food Security; Freetown City Council; Ministry of Land, Housing and Environment; Ministry of Health and Sanitation; National Association of Farmers in Sierra Leone (NAFSL); Sierra Leone Youth Empowerment Organisation (SLYEO); Njala University; and other stakeholders).

Types of Urban Agriculture, including modules on microfarming in and around the homes, community - and school - gardening, small scale commercial horticulture, livestock keeping and aquaculture, larger scale entreprises, multifucntional farms, urban forestry, amongst otUrban Agriculture, including modules on microfarming in and around the homes, community - and school - gardening, small scale commercial horticulture, livestock keeping and aquaculture, larger scale entreprises, multifucntional farms, urban forestry, amongst oturban forestry, amongst others.

During ACR's March webinar on the California offset market, ARB urged project developers not to wait for OPR and verifier approval to start implementing projects using the already published compliance offset protocols (Forestry, Urban Forestry, Ozone Depleting Substances and Livestock).

Guideline 3 of the series Monitoring impacts of urban and peri-urban agriculture and forestry on climate change mitigation and adaptation.The methodology provided in this manual for calculating these indicators is an adaptation of the well - known Life Cycle Analysis (LCA).

Guideline 2 of the series Monitoring impacts of urban and peri-urban agriculture and forestry on climate change mitigation and adaptation.This methodological guideline will provide measurement, quantification and monitoring methods to assess the hypothesis that current and increased Urban and Peri-urban Agriculture and Forestry (UPAF) areas will reduce the urban heat island effect and contribute to energy savurban and peri-urban agriculture and forestry on climate change mitigation and adaptation.This methodological guideline will provide measurement, quantification and monitoring methods to assess the hypothesis that current and increased Urban and Peri-urban Agriculture and Forestry (UPAF) areas will reduce the urban heat island effect and contribute to energy savurban agriculture and forestry on climate change mitigation and adaptation.This methodological guideline will provide measurement, quantification and monitoring methods to assess the hypothesis that current and increased Urban and Peri-urban Agriculture and Forestry (UPAF) areas will reduce the urban heat island effect and contribute to energy forestry on climate change mitigation and adaptation.This methodological guideline will provide measurement, quantification and monitoring methods to assess the hypothesis that current and increased Urban and Peri-urban Agriculture and Forestry (UPAF) areas will reduce the urban heat island effect and contribute to energy savUrban and Peri-urban Agriculture and Forestry (UPAF) areas will reduce the urban heat island effect and contribute to energy savurban Agriculture and Forestry (UPAF) areas will reduce the urban heat island effect and contribute to energy Forestry (UPAF) areas will reduce the urban heat island effect and contribute to energy savurban heat island effect and contribute to energy savings.

This policy brief was elaborated by the RUAF Foundation on the basis of the results of an on - going UN-Habitat and CDKN funded programme to integrate urban and peri-urban agriculture and forestry into city and provincial climate change actions plans.

The Urban Forest program at SF Environment seeks to promote a healthier, sustainable urban forest in San Francisco by implementing the Urban Forestry Council Ordinance, promoting education and outreach programs, providing information on tree management, and developing innovative funding strategies for urban foreUrban Forest program at SF Environment seeks to promote a healthier, sustainable urban forest in San Francisco by implementing the Urban Forestry Council Ordinance, promoting education and outreach programs, providing information on tree management, and developing innovative funding strategies for urban foreurban forest in San Francisco by implementing the Urban Forestry Council Ordinance, promoting education and outreach programs, providing information on tree management, and developing innovative funding strategies for urban foreUrban Forestry Council Ordinance, promoting education and outreach programs, providing information on tree management, and developing innovative funding strategies for urban fForestry Council Ordinance, promoting education and outreach programs, providing information on tree management, and developing innovative funding strategies for urban foreurban forestryforestry.

Staff of local governments, research organisations and NGOs participating in the UN Habitat Cities and Climate Change Programme and in 2 CDKN - funded projects were trained on the potential impacts of urban agriculture and - forestry on climate change adaptation and mitigation, and on practical methods for monitoring them; climate - smart urban agriculture technologies; and the design and assessment of alternative strategies for the development of urban agriculture as part of city climate change strategies.

The attempted band - waggoning on the Climate predicament by vegetarian mostly urban interests — who are pushing this non-solution across the media and govt ministries — simply ignore inconvenient science, show a crass lack of knowledge of forestry, and plainly care nothing for the rights of indigenous people of the uplands who've been farming them since the neo-lithic.

The study may extend to areas beyond energy, such as agriculture, forestry, urban development, and other land uses which can have significant effects on GHG emissions.

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RUAF Foundation brought together a group of international and local scientists to jointly design indicators and tools to measure the various impacts of urban agriculture and forestry on climate change adaptation and mitigation and related developmental co-benefits.

Opportunities this year include park maintenance in Hells Canyon, Idaho (with transportation by jet - boat up the Snake River Canyon), forestry service at the New York Botanical Garden (a 50 - acre urban old - growth forest) and native - bird habitat restoration on the Big Island of Hawaii (with hiking in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park).

The working activities of a soil conservationist include planning and conducting a wide variety of surveys and investigations on rural or urban agriculture, construction or forestry and applying measures for maintaining or restoring proper soil.

Planning and conducting a wide variety of surveys and investigations on rural or urban agriculture construction or forestry