Urban greening provides significant economic benefits through improved environmental quality, community well-being, and human health. It reduces air pollution, captures stormwater, cools the urban heat island effect, and enhances wildlife habitat. Properties near natural open spaces have higher real estate values. Green spaces also improve workplace productivity, healthcare outcomes, and crime reduction. However, fully valuing the human services of urban nature requires defining the benefits, populations impacted, geographic scope, and determining overall value to report the results and worth of these important services. Interdisciplinary collaboration with economists can help in this valuation.

1. Measuring the Economic Benefits of Greening valuation of “Human Services” Kathleen L. Wolf, Ph.D. College of Forest Resources University of Washington [email_address]

2. Maia says, “ science rocks!” 30+ years of urban nature science

4. urban nature - economic value?

8. valuation of human services?

10. www.cfr.washington.edu/research.envmind Collaboration? Economists?