Premium
Representation of local urban forestry issues in Canadian newspapers: Impacts of a major ice storm
Author(s) -
Conway Tenley M.,
Jalali Murtaza A.
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
the canadian geographer / le géographe canadien
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.35
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1541-0064
pISSN - 0008-3658
DOI - 10.1111/cag.12355
Subject(s) - newspaper , storm , representation (politics) , geography , environmental resource management , forestry , environmental planning , political science , meteorology , advertising , business , environmental science , politics , law
Key Messages Local news coverage of urban forests in three Ontario newspapers frames trees as providers of both ecosystem services and disservices. Local coverage differed between newspapers in municipalities with and without other urban forest actors present. A major ice storm shifted how newspapers covered urban forests, increasing the number of themes represented in each article and relative frequency of ecosystem disservice themes.