It’s well established that urban tree cover provides numerous environmental and psychological benefits to city dwellers.
It’s well established that urban tree cover provides numerous environmental and psychological benefits to city dwellers. Urban trees may also bolster education outcomes and their loss could disproportionately affect students from low-income families, according to new research by University of Utah social scientists.
Economics professor Alberto Garcia looked at changes in school attendance and standardized test scores at schools in the Chicago metropolitan region over the decade after a non-native beetle called the emerald ash borer appeared in North America, eventually killing millions of ash trees along the streets and yards of Midwestern cities. His results are both alarming and insightful, revealing a complex interplay between environmental degradation and social inequities.
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Alberto Garcia, left, and Michelle Lee. (Photo Credit: Brian Maffly)
