Meeting a diversity of needs through a diversity of species: Urban residents’ favourite and disliked tree species across eleven towns in South Africa and Zimbabwe

Shackleton, Charlie M; Mograbi, Penelope J

Title: Meeting a diversity of needs through a diversity of species: Urban residents’ favourite and disliked tree species across eleven towns in South Africa and Zimbabwe
Creator: Shackleton, Charlie M
Creator: Mograbi, Penelope J
Date Issued: 2020
Date: 2020
Type: text
Type: article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/176321
Identifier: vital:42684
Identifier: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ufug.2019.126507
Description: Understanding of urban residents’ preferences and dislikes for tree species and attributes is necessary to provide them with the species they most favour. Yet there is relatively little understanding of local species preferences, the reasons underlying them and how they vary with context and scale. We interviewed 1100 urban residents in eleven towns (four in Zimbabwe, four in Limpopo Province and three in the Eastern Cape of South Africa) to determine what were their favourite and least favourite tree species and the reasons for such. Fifty-nine species were listed amongst the preferred species (the four most common being Jacaranda mimosifolia (10% or respondents), Mangifera indica (10%), Adonsonia digitata (7%) and Colophospermum mopane (7%)), and 29 as disliked (the four most common being Vachellia spp, J. mimosifolia, Euphorbia spp. and Melia azedarach), with 16 in common between the two.
Format: 10 pages
Format: pdf
Language: English
Relation: Urban Forestry and Urban Greening
Relation: Shackleton, C.M. and Mograbi, P.J., 2020. Meeting a diversity of needs through a diversity of species: Urban residents’ favourite and disliked tree species across eleven towns in South Africa and Zimbabwe. Urban Forestry and Urban Greening, 48, p.126507
Relation: Urban Forestry and Urban Greening volume 48 number p. 126507 2020 1618-8667
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SDG 11. Sustainable Cities and Communities

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