o:3285 Urban forests and climate change Урбане шуме и климатске промене en Spatial and urban plans have recently given an increased focus to the sensitive issue of planning the urban resilience of existing and establishing new urban forests. Urban forests are recognised as an extremely important factor of environmental quality, while scientific studies indicate that the health condition of urban forests is threatened by present-day climate change. There have been relatively few systematic assessments of the causes of tree die-back in urban areas in Serbia. Research, forest establishment planning and tree monitoring to estimate possible consequences to existing trees will enable city authorities and managing bodies to raise the issue of urban forest resilience to climate change to a higher level and incorporate it into urban planning. Future scenarios in which urban forests are resistant to potential adverse climate change will depend on the scope of activities of adaptive planning of urban forest establishment and adaptive management of existing ones. Therefore, it is necessary to conduct long-term studies of monitoring the condition of urban forests in the large cities of Serbia (Belgrade, Novi Sad, Niš, Subotica, etc.) in the coming period in order to identify specific problems and remediate the consequences such as deteriorated tree health condition and die-back. Urban planning, urban green space, adverse effects of climate factors, environmental protection 1552101 1821-1046 1552102 https://www.forest.org.rs/files/SF%2085-86,%202022.pdf 1552099 DOI:10.5937/SustFor2285001B 2023-11-20T09:22:00.702Z 44 yes 46 Ljiljana Brašanac-Bosanac 0000-0002-3324-674X 46 Tatjana Ćirković-Mitrović 0000-0003-2620-1751 46 Nevena Čule 0000-0002-1846-989X 46 Goran Češljar 0000-0003-0438-1050 46 Ilija Đorđević 0000-0001-9499-3565 application/pdf 355824 https://unilib.phaidrabg.rs/o:3285 no yes 16 70 92000002 Sustainable Forestry 85-86 1 12 Institute of Forestry Belgrade 2022