城市林业概述与发展趋势

随着社会经济的快速发展和城市化进程的加快，城市环境问题日益成为社会各界关注的焦点，城市林业在城市建设与发展中的地位和作用越来越受到重视。从自然属性与社会属性，地域范围与层次的角度介绍了城市林业的基本概念和内涵，并比较了城市林业与传统林业、现代园林在属性、经营管理和功能方面的差别。借助已有的研究数据和成果，阐述了城市林业在城市发展中的作用，提出了现代城市林业面临的机遇和挑战以及未来发展趋势。

Urban Forestry:An Overview and Trends

With the development of the society and economy as well as the urbaniz ation, city problem has been becoming the focus in the social and scientific communities. Ur ban forestry therewith has received a growing concern due to its function and contribution in the construction and development of cities and towns. In this paper, we start with the basic conc ept and contents of urban forestry in terms of its natural and social attributes, scopes and levels, and then compare the differences between urban forestry and traditional forestry, modern gardens in a spects of research fields, functions and properties, aims and levels of management. Based on the re search data and results available, the role of urban forestry and its potentials in solving prob lems from urbanization are also demonstrated. According to the current status and existent problems, we propose the opportunities and challenges, and future trends of modern urban fore stry.