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Year Published: 2021
These are uncertain times in the Anthropocene, where the health and resilience of all urban inhabitants should be key themes for cities striving for sustainability…
Year Published: 2021
While it is well recognised that increasing vegetation cover reduces the Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect in cities, less is understood about the spatial pattern of vegetation type required to maximise cooling benefits…
Author(s): Grear, Brenton
Year Published: 2020
The Green Adelaide Board was formally established through the Landscape South Australia Act 2019, as a new body to drive innovative and collaborative environmental management across metropolitan Adelaide…
Author(s): Both, Alan | Hally, Bryan | Hillman, Samuel | Hurley, Joe | San Martin Saldias, Daisy | Sun, Qian | Wallace, Luke
Year Published: 2021
Urban trees provide a range of vital social and environmental services. Currently, inventories of individual urban trees are conducted in-situ by professional arborists…
Author(s): Cunningham, Brian
Year Published: 2011
In March 2010 the State Executive Committee of the Local Government Association of South Australia (LGA) agreed to conduct, in conjunction with the LGA Mutual Liability Scheme (MLS), an independent Inquiry into the management of trees located on land under the care and control of councils…
Author(s): Denoon, Katie
Year Published: 2020
The Sutherland Shire Council’s Green Streets Program objectives include preserving the Shire’s sense of place, using the right trees in the right spots for the long term, carrying out quality planting and…
Author(s): Bush, Judy | Frantzeskaki, Niki
Year Published: 2021
As cities increasingly turn to nature-based solutions to address key urban socio-ecological challenges, approaches to their governance, planning and implementation are increasingly important for ensuring their effectiveness…
Author(s): Sweeney, Karen
Year Published: 2018
Many Councils are developing new policies for their urban forest, with a focus on increasing canopy cover, species diversity and improved tree management…
Author(s): Hodges, G.
Year Published: 2000
The TREENET Local Government Street Tree Practice survey was originally designed as a tool for determining the areas in which TREENET can offer the most assistance.
Author(s): Watson, Scott
Year Published: 2007
In a crude sense, the VicRoads Roadside Management Strategy (VicRoads, undated) has four broad objectives. This may be over-simplifying, but VicRoads roadsides should be safe, ‘environmentally friendly’, attractive and affordable to maintain…
Year Published: 2017
Many cities are seeking to optimise the ecosystem service benefits of urban trees by incorporating goals for increasing tree canopy cover into strategies that promote liveability and urban sustainability…
Author(s): Julian, Phillip
Year Published: 2018
The delivery of tree maintenance and related services can have a major impact on the success of urban forest strategies and policies that a Council may have…
Author(s): Hewett, Philip
Year Published: 2011
The Newcastle City Council Tree Asset Management System (TAMS) records 109,000 street and park trees of which 1217 are the Hills Fig (Ficus microcarpa var Hilli). The Hills Fig public tree population comprises 832 semi-mature trees and 374 mature trees…
Year Published: 2012
Many Council’s are now proactively managing their trees as assets, and are identifying those with special
relevance to the community…
Year Published: 2020
Awareness of the benefits of urban trees has led many cities to develop ambitious targets to increase tree numbers and canopy cover. Policy instruments that guide the planning of cities recognize the need for new governance arrangements to implement this agenda…
Year Published: 2017
Urbanisation and a changing climate are leading to more frequent and severe flood, heat and air pollution episodes in Britain’s cities. Interest in nature-based solutions to these urban problems is growing, with urban forests potentially able to provide a range of regulating ecosystem services such as stormwater attenuation, heat amelioration and air purification…
Author(s): Plant, Lyndal | Sipe, Neil
Year Published: 2016
Trees along footpath zones (or verges) grow on the “front-line” of urban forest ecosystems, increasingly recognised as essential to the quality of human life in cities. Growing so close to where residents live, work and travel, these street trees require careful planning and active management in order to balance their benefits against risks, liabilities, impacts and costs…