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The Woods around the Ivory Tower: A Systematic Review Examining the Value and Relevance of School Forests in the United States
- Title:
- The Woods around the Ivory Tower: A Systematic Review Examining the Value and Relevance of School Forests in the United States
- Creator:
- Coleman, Kimberly J.; Perry, Elizabeth E.; Thom, Dominik; Gladkikh, Tatiana M.; Keeton, William S.; Clark, Peter W.; Tursini, Ralph E. Jr.; Wallin, Kimberly F.
- Date Created:
- 2020
- Description:
- Throughout the United States, many institutions of higher education own forested tracts, often called school forests, which they use for teaching, research, and demonstration purposes. These school forests provide a range of benefits to the communities in which they are located. However, because administration is often decoupled from research and teaching, those benefits might not always be evident to the individuals who make decisions about the management and use of school forests, which may undervalue their services and put these areas at risk for sale, development, or over-harvesting to generate revenue. To understand what messages are being conveyed about the value and relevance of school forests, we conducted a systematic literature review and qualitatively coded the resulting literature content using an ecosystem services framework. While school forests provide many important benefits to academic and local communities, we found that most of the existing literature omits discussions about cultural ecosystem services that people may receive from school forests. We discuss the implications of this omission and make recommendations for addressing it.
- Document Type:
- Research Article
- Subjects:
- cultural ecosystem services school forests community forestry forest planning and management higher education
- Latitude:
- 46.869607
- Longitude:
- -116.733856
- Publisher:
- Coleman KJ, Perry EE, Thom D, Gladkikh TM, Keeton WS, Clark PW, Tursini RE Jr., Wallin KF. The Woods around the Ivory Tower: A Systematic Review Examining the Value and Relevance of School Forests in the United States. Sustainability. 2020; 12(2):531. https://doi.org/10.3390/su12020531
- Department:
- Center for Earth and Environmental Science, State University of New York at Plattsburgh, Plattsburgh, NY 12901, USA; Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT 05405, USA; Department of Parks, Recreation, and Tourism Management, Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29634-0735, USA; Gund Institute for Environment, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT 05405, USA; Institute of Silviculture, Department of Forest- and Soil Sciences, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU) Vienna, 1190 Vienna, Austria; Ecosystem Dynamics and Forest Management Group, School of Life Sciences, Technical University of Munich, 85354 Freising, Germany; USDA Forest Service Northern Research Station, South Burlington, VT 05403, USA
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- record
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- "The Woods around the Ivory Tower: A Systematic Review Examining the Value and Relevance of School Forests in the United States", UIEF Research Exchange, University of Idaho Library Digital Collections, https://www.lib.uidaho.edu/digital/uief/items/uief_0315.html
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- In copyright, educational use permitted.
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