Review of Urban Forestry Research in the Nordic Countries - SNS

4. Comparison of results with the 2005 CARe-FOR-USsurveyProjects per countryThe research survey included detailed information on 67 projects from four Nordic countries,indicating that quite some research is carried out. The researchers are aware of a significantnumber of additional relevant projects that relate to urban forestry, but for which no detailedinformation could be collected, and thus the present survey does not provide a comprehensiveoverview.Current results can be compared, at least partly, with the CARe-FOR-US 2005 survey, whichlisted 70 projects for Denmark (18), Finland (23), Norway (19) and Sweden (10). In the 2005survey projects from Estonia and Latvia were also included, but these countries did notcontribute to the present survey (as they informed about an absence of relevant research).In Figure 4.1 the number of projects per country in the two CARe-FOR-US surveys iscompared.353025Nr of projects2015102005200950Denmark Finland Norway SwedenFig. 4.1. Comparison of number of urban forestry projects per Nordic country in the CARe-FOR-US 2005 and 2009 surveys.The figure shows that considerably more projects have been listed for Sweden in the latestsurvey, whereas Finland and Norway contribute with significantly less research projects. Thelatter could signalise a decrease in project activity, but could also be due to lack of responseor different decisions on which project to include. In Norway, for example, a ‘pre-survey’ wasundertaken amongst all relevant universities and other research organisations to obtain anoverview of relevant research within the wider frame of recreation and urban and peri-urbangreen spaces (72 projects in all). From this pre-survey the most relevant project leaders wereselected and sent a CARe-FOR-US project form. The results from this exercise indicate that adefinition of what is ‘urban forestry’ is critical for which projects are included (or not) at thenational level.14