{"id":2152,"date":"2019-12-11T13:27:50","date_gmt":"2019-12-11T18:27:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urban\/?page_id=2152"},"modified":"2025-11-25T12:27:38","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T17:27:38","slug":"brochu_tnc","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urban\/internship-impacts\/brochu_tnc\/","title":{"rendered":"Developing an Urban Forest Plan for Providence, RI"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t<ul class=\"profile-listing profile-format-advanced\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\n<li class=\"profile-item profile-item-advanced has-title post-1180 profile type-profile status-publish hentry\">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urban\/profile\/paige-brochu\/\" class=\"profile-link profile-link-advanced\">\n\t\t<figure class=\"profile-photo profile-photo-advanced\">\n\t\t\t<img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"\/urban\/files\/2018\/07\/2018_Paige-Brochu-e1535390404596-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Paige Brochu headshot\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urban\/files\/2018\/07\/2018_Paige-Brochu-e1535390404596-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urban\/files\/2018\/07\/2018_Paige-Brochu-e1535390404596-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>\t\t<\/figure>\n\n\t\t<h6 class=\"profile-name profile-name-advanced\">Paige Brochu<\/h6>\n\t\t<p class=\"profile-title profile-title-advanced\">Director, Spatial Analysis Lab; Research Assistant Professor at the University of Vermont<\/p>\t<\/a>\n\n\t\n<\/li>\n\t\t\t<\/ul>\n\n<p><strong>Project Partner<\/strong>: The Nature Conservancy and Providence Neighborhood Planting Program, Summer 2019<\/p>\n<p><strong>Project Summary<\/strong>: <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Urban forests play a critical role in cities\u2019 sustainability goals by reducing polluted stormwater runoff, improving air quality, mitigating heat and noise, and providing places for recreation and community. Working with The Nature Conservancy and Providence Neighborhood Planting Program, Paige supported the early development of an Urban Forest Plan for the City of Providence, Rhode Island by aggregating, managing, and organizing data from numerous governmental and non-governmental sources. In doing so, Paige helped identify areas of highest need for increased tree canopy based on environmental, health and social data while ensuring an equitable distribution of an urban tree canopy. Paige identified the data needed to achieve those aims so as to advance the sustainability goals of Providence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Project Deliverables<\/strong>: <a href=\"\/urban\/files\/2019\/12\/Brochu_PolicyBrief_v2.pdf\">Policy Brief<\/a>\u00a0looking at an Urban Forest Plan with a Focus on Equity<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment1883\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_2153\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2153\" style=\"width: 572px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/urban\/files\/2019\/12\/Brochu_photo-636x423.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"562\" height=\"374\" class=\"wp-image-2153 \" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urban\/files\/2019\/12\/Brochu_photo-636x423.jpg 636w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urban\/files\/2019\/12\/Brochu_photo-768x510.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urban\/files\/2019\/12\/Brochu_photo-1024x680.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urban\/files\/2019\/12\/Brochu_photo.jpg 1100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 562px) 100vw, 562px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2153\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span>Urban forest in Providence, Rhode Island (Credit: Eunika Sopponicka)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Project Partner: The Nature Conservancy and Providence Neighborhood Planting Program, Summer 2019 Project Summary: Urban forests play a critical role in cities\u2019 sustainability goals by reducing polluted stormwater runoff, improving air quality, mitigating heat and noise, and providing places for recreation and community. Working with The Nature Conservancy and Providence Neighborhood Planting Program, Paige supported [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16791,"featured_media":0,"parent":1881,"menu_order":15,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2152"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16791"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2152"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4093,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2152\/revisions\/4093"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/urban\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}