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Author(s): Moore, Greg
Year Published: 2020
For decades we have been listening to ordinary Australians saying that there is nothing that they can do about climate change. They argue that Australia with its small population is not really significant in the grand scale of global climate change and politics…
Author(s): Lambe, Dan
Year Published: 2020
Never has there been a more important time to prioritize urban forests and urban forest management…
Year Published: 2019
Global processes of urban growth lead to severe environmental impacts such as temperature increase with an intensification of the urban heat island effect…
Year Published: 2021
As the rate of urbanisation continues to increase, widespread habitat clearing within peri-urban landscapes contributes to significant environmental impacts, including loss of biological diversity…
Author(s): Entwisle, Tim
Year Published: 2020
Botanic gardens maintain collections of living plants for science, conservation, education, beauty and more. These collections change over time…
Year Published: 2017
Urban greening has rapidly emerged as a key urban climate change adaptation strategy. Urban greening is thought to confer manifold socio-ecological benefits upon residents in towns and cities…
Author(s): Challis, Anthea | Esperon-Rodriguez, Manuel | Marchin, Renée M. | Power, Sally A. | Rymer, Paul D. | Tjoelker, Mark G.
Year Published: 2020
In urban environments, long-term tree survival and performance requires physiological tolerance or phenotypic plasticity in plant functional traits…
Year Published: 2007
Across the nation, people have taken an interest in climate change issues. The Brisbane community wants to do their part in helping to reduce their impact on the environment…
Author(s): Brook, Barry W. | Wilkins, Hubert
Year Published: 2008
Treenet Symposium about Synergies and tipping points in the climate system…
Year Published: 2020
Concentrations of building mass and insufficient greenery in cities are identified to contribute significantly to extended heat stress in the built environment, commonly known as the urban heat island (UHI) effect. This paper presents a scenario-based modelling built on climate change projections and potential alterations of urban greenery in 2030 and 2090 in Adelaide, South Australia…
Author(s): Duncan, Elizabeth | Iping, Alexander | Kidston-Lattari, Juliette | McManus, Phil | Simpson-Young, Alice
Year Published: 2019
The effects of climate change and urban heat islands are predicted to grow and compound in the future. In the context of urban heat becoming an increasing problem, this article explores the extent to which this is recognised in media…