Vegetationstate
Greenery the city can be far more challenging than in non-urban areas. The development of buildings, increased traffic, and densification of urban spaces often lead to a further deterioration of environmental conditions. Worsening vegetation conditions and the decline in the condition of greenery in the city, especially trees and shrubs, limit the ability of green infrastructure to provide regulatory ecosystem services, including lowering the temperature in the city.
CITY PROBLEMS
CITY PROBLEMS
Tree dieback
Trees in the city often die because they grow in difficult conditions – in compacted soil, surrounded by concrete, and exposed to high temperatures. Lack of water, pollution, and phisical damage weaken them year by year. When they die, the city loses its natural protection against heat, noise, and air pollution.
CITY PROBLEMS
Hazardous trees
Trees in poor condition can pose a threat to people's safety and their property by breaking branches or falling over during storms. Their weakening often results from many years of difficult conditions, lack of care, and phisical damage. Regular inspections and proper care can prevent such situations, protecting people and property.
CITY PROBLEMS
Excessive mowing
Excessive mowing of lawns reduces their biodiversity. A short-cut turf copes worse with heat, and the soil heats up and cracks faster. As a result, the greenery loses its function of cooling and moisturizing the urban air.
generates 4.48 euros of benefits for residents.
Vegetation state
What CoolCity does
What CoolCity does
- Inventories green areas distinguishing plant communities.
- Measures the condition and parameters of trees
- Identifies impressive specimens
Calculates indexes of tree canopy cover, their condition, density, and height, as well as low vegetation cover. The ecosystem services of trees for residents are valued.
Identifies places with the best and worst state of urban greenery in both urbanized and natural areas.
Allows prioritizing the planting of trees and low vegetation through a decision support system. Models the impact of plantings on adaptation efforts.
Monitors changes in vegetation - canopy loss, felling, and planting of trees in public and private areas. Assesses the impact of refraining from mowing on the condition of vegetation.
- Inventories green areas distinguishing plant communities.
- Measures the condition and parameters of trees
- Identifies impressive specimens
Calculates indexes of tree canopy cover, their condition, density, and height, as well as low vegetation cover. The ecosystem services of trees for residents are valued.
Identifies places with the best and worst state of urban greenery in both urbanized and natural areas.
Allows prioritizing the planting of trees and low vegetation through a decision support system. Models the impact of plantings on adaptation efforts.
Monitors changes in vegetation - canopy loss, felling, and planting of trees in public and private areas. Assesses the impact of refraining from mowing on the condition of vegetation.
Effects for the city
Increasing the resilience of greenery to climate change, pests, and diseases
Increasing the longevity of urban greenery, especially under challenging city conditions
Investments carried out with attention to large trees that provide many ecosystem services
Identifying trees in poor condition and maintaining or replacing them
Being a green and adapted city as a priority of city policy has often been difficult to implement because in practice these issues were pushed to the background. CoolCity gives us strong arguments so that environmental priorities are treated on an equal footing with other investment decisions.
Grzegorz Synowiec
Deputy Director of the Climate and Energy Department, Wrocław City Hall
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