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The book highlights, among other things, why cities using wood in construction become carbon capture and storage infrastructures and how urban forests and the strategic placements of trees around buildings decrease the energy consumption in buildings for heating and cooling. But they also reduce the increasing problem of the urban heat island effect and play a major role in human health and wellbeing.
Transitioning to biocities is a challenge for truly transdisciplinary research and for transformative approaches that combine urban and landscape planning, medical science, architecture, forestry, ecology, biology, chemistry, sociology, agriculture, landscape architecture, industrial design, engineering, economics, governance, and social sciences. It also requires political leadership, and the active participation of urban and rural citizens.
To accelerate this transition, the European Forest Institute launched its Biocities Facility, aiming to create an informed dialogue on how trees, forests, and wood can rethink and form the backbone of climate smart cities: Biocities.
Editors: Giuseppe E. Scarascia-Mugnozza, Vicente Guallart,ꞏFabio Salbitano,ꞏGiovanna Ottaviani Aalmo,ꞏStefano Boeri