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Tarver, Gregory W., Jr.

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Urban forestry in the streets: Intersection of agency, the Black Forest, and human consciousness in Oakland, California.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Urban forestry in the streets: Intersection of agency, the Black Forest, and human consciousness in Oakland, California./
Author:	Tarver, Gregory W., Jr.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2015,
Description:	330 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 77-02(E), Section: B.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International77-02B(E).
Subject:	Urban forestry. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3723737
ISBN:	9781339066509

Urban forestry in the streets: Intersection of agency, the Black Forest, and human consciousness in Oakland, California.
Tarver, Gregory W., Jr.

Urban forestry in the streets: Intersection of agency, the Black Forest, and human consciousness in Oakland, California. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2015 - 330 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 77-02(E), Section: B.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Davis, 2015.

Urban forestry or the greening of cities has a sizable body of literature that explores urban forest ecosystem service, especially the ability of trees to combat environmental pollution and extreme heating of global climate change. However, the social issues pertaining to the implementation, management and sustainability of urban forests are minimally identified. My dissertation research into community based greening effort into West Oakland, a predominantly low income African American community, provides theoretical and practical insight into the complications and successes of urban forestry. This manuscript fills large gaps of urban forest information by investigating the historical challenges that predispose communities to low-canopy cover and high environmental pollution; urban forestry socio-political issues, networks, and conflicts; and the human to tree reciprocal relations that facilitate the development of human consciousness.

ISBN: 9781339066509Subjects--Topical Terms:

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Urban forestry.

Urban forestry in the streets: Intersection of agency, the Black Forest, and human consciousness in Oakland, California.
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520 $a Urban forestry or the greening of cities has a sizable body of literature that explores urban forest ecosystem service, especially the ability of trees to combat environmental pollution and extreme heating of global climate change. However, the social issues pertaining to the implementation, management and sustainability of urban forests are minimally identified. My dissertation research into community based greening effort into West Oakland, a predominantly low income African American community, provides theoretical and practical insight into the complications and successes of urban forestry. This manuscript fills large gaps of urban forest information by investigating the historical challenges that predispose communities to low-canopy cover and high environmental pollution; urban forestry socio-political issues, networks, and conflicts; and the human to tree reciprocal relations that facilitate the development of human consciousness.
520 $a This dissertation addresses three research questions. I first investigate how historical socio-political and economic trends have affected environmental conditions and urban forestry in current day West Oakland. Second, how is urban forest organizational agency shaped through social and political engagement in greening, stewardship, and research activities? Third, how does the relationship between humans and urban trees/forests influence human consciousness? My methodology revolved around my case study and greater than six year participatory engagement with Urban Releaf (501(c)3), where I held roles as graduate researcher and director of education. I also relied upon key informant interviews, spontaneous individual and group dialogues with employees and persons involved with greening activities, and extensive archival research spanning the 1930s through to 2012 specifically West Oakland but encompassing the City of Oakland. My findings reveal that West Oakland residents were subjected to racialized urban political economic processes that socially and politically marginalized their community. At the same time the trees in this area were also subject to the same processes and were environmentally marginalized from the Oakland municipal forest. Both humans and trees received reduced services from the City of Oakland while redevelopment reshaped, removed, and devitalized the human and urban forest community. Grassroots efforts in the 1950-1970s were the exceptional force that resisted and redirected these government and state top-down processes and made major strides to enhance the social and environmental quality of life for West Oaklanders.
520 $a My findings in chapter four through an actor network theory framework elucidate the importance of socio-political networks in the individual and collective agency of Urban Releaf. Ultimately, social and political competencies are the primary measure of an urban forest actors agential power and success. Urban Releaf relies on socio-political networks for practically every urban forestry activity. These network associations built, maintained and extended by Urban Releaf are especially relevant in accessing municipal space, forestry technical support, fundraising, and negotiating the diverse types of conflicts with individuals, organizations and agencies. Socio-political skills not environmental-forestry skills are the primary constituents to Urban Releaf's success and longevity.
520 $a In chapter five, I contribute to human consciousness and Black studies research by revealing the reciprocal relationship that develops through hybrid human and tree relations. In the first case study of Oakland Tree Task Force, Black Power based socio-political ideology was merged with inherent and symbolic agency of trees. The results were the development of the "Black Forest" and behavioral changes of West Oakland residents into tree planters and long term urban forest caretakers of the Oakland urban forest. This nuanced expression of Black Power was characteristic of local based Oakland grassroots community engaged activism. In my second case study I show how the nonhuman agency of trees through the production of ecosystem services enrolls and convinces humans to plant and provide long term stewardship of the Oakland urban forest. Through these activities, direct human to tree and human to human engagement results in an enhancement of environmental and interpersonal consciousness of Urban Releaf's youth and young adult urban forest caretakers.
520 $a Overall, by showing grassroots leadership, socio-environmental programming, and the reciprocal dynamics of human to tree relations, this dissertation research provides valuable insight for scholars, advocates and professionals engaged in greening cities, and is particularly relevant for urban forestry projects and programs in low income communities of color.
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