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Benefits and Costs — 10 items

Link Conserving Energy with Landscaping
Well-placed plantings can significantly temper the microclimate around a home, resulting in a more comfortable environment and big savings in heating and ...
Link Identified Benefits of Community Trees and Forests
Community trees and forests are valuable. To the 75% of the United States population that now live in urban and suburban areas, trees provide many goods and ...
Link Landscape Plantings for Energy Savings
The high cost of home heating and air conditioning prompts efforts to reduce home energy consumption. Although outdoor landscape plants are pleasing in ...
Link Selecting Wooded Home Sites
Buying a new house or building your dream house is an exciting venture. The site you select and its trees will play an important part in the beauty and value ...
Link Smart Growth
Smart growth--anti-sprawl development that is environmentally, fiscally, and economically smart and includes land-use planning, mixed use development, and ...
Link The Economic Value of Open Space
While much has been written about the economic value of the environment in general and of open space in particular, the literature is segregated by discipline ...
Link The Value of Landscaping
The Value of Landscaping
Link Urban Forest Values: Economic Benefits of Trees in Cities
Many important decisions in American cities are based on careful cost and benefit analysis of options. The values of trees and plants in our urban centers are ...
Link Urban Forestry Benefits and Costs
Urban forests are all the trees and other vegetation that grow in places where people live, work and play, from small communities in rural areas to large ...
Link When Cities Grow Wild - Contents
Here in the Halifax (Nova Scotia) Regional Municipality, there are a number of projects underway and the practice is supported through both municipal and ...
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