Abstract
Summary The value of trees in urban areas has long been established. Trees offer significant opportunities as buffers of pollution on the pollution pathway. Pruning strategies of local authorities will affect the ability of trees to act as a target for pollutants. Within the United Kingdom current trends for overpruning to control water use ignore the potential for trees to be an integral part of urban pollution control. The impact of cyclical pruning policies upon human health, plant/animal communities and structures could be significant. ‘Fog everywhere. Fog up the river, where it flows among green aits and meadows, fog down the river, where it rolls defiled among the tiers of shipping and the waterside pollutions of the great (and dirty) city. Fog on the Essex marshes, fog on the Kentish heights. Fog lying out on the yards and hovering on the rigs of great ships. Fog in the eyes and throats of ancient Greenwich pensioners, wheezing by the firesides.’ Bleak House. Charles Dickens
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