ABSTRACT
At the University of Toronto, seeking an appropriate title of a graduate student's thesis, in 1965, Prof. Erik Jorgensen proposed the unusual juxtaposition of “urban” and “forestry”. The term was coined as a branch of forestry that deals with “cultivation and management of trees for their present and potential contributions to the physiological, sociological, and economic well-being of urban society”. Beyond the inception of urban forestry and its evolution, it has been widely stated that forests in urbanized areas can address a wide range of concerns, such as environmental, economic, and social issues. Environmental issues deal with air pollution, and Carbone sequestration, wildlife habitat, water quality, and climate change; the economic concerns are related to food and timber production; social issues refer to human health and individual or collective well-being other sets of semantic and intangible values.
