Australian Urban Forest Literature Database
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Author(s): Kenyon, Philip
Year Published: 2002
As a species we are conceited, we live on earth, believing we will be here forever, and that we are the most important event the world has witnessed…
Author(s): Heath, Michael
Year Published: 2002
We live in times of rising expectations. What was a luxury yesterday is taken for granted today; and tomorrow is expected to be better than today…
Author(s): Neaylon, Kirsty
Year Published: 2002
Many species from the genus Eucalyptus have economic potential for the ornamental horticulture industry…
Author(s): Dargavel, John
Year Published: 2004
David Lowenthal, in his 1985 book, The Past is a Foreign Country, emphasised the way in which we produce and reproduce the past in changing ways…
Author(s): Cockerel, Sarah
Year Published: 2004
This paper is an overview of a preliminary investigation into all tree avenues planted as War memorials throughout Australia. It cannot claim to be a complete record and in some ways serves only to highlight the gaps in our knowledge…
Author(s): Wark, Andy
Year Published: 2003
The City of Mitcham is pleased to demonstrate a commitment to TREENET by providing Claremont Avenue and adjacent verge area (situated immediately to the south of the Waite Institute grounds) as a trial site…
Author(s): Denman, Liz
Year Published: 2003
In recent times, a greater emphasis has been placed on the environmental aspects of urban stormwater management. An experiment has been designed to investigate the potential of using street tree and tree soil systems to treat stormwater…
Author(s): Knight, Kym
Year Published: 2003
Every day thousands of trees are planted in our towns and cities by people from a wide range of industries and professions including Construction workers, Horticulturists, Arborists, Green Keepers, Maintenance workers, Council workers, subcontractors, volunteers and many more…
Author(s): Hewett, Philip
Year Published: 2003
This paper discusses risk management as it applies to urban amenity trees. My purpose is not to set out a particular authority’s model for review or to explain what risk management is – that has been extremely well covered in recent years – rather, it is to explore the reasons I believe tree risk management poses such difficulty to bringing it into routine practice…
Author(s): Williams, Kathryn
Year Published: 2003
Street trees provide a wide range of social benefits. Air quality, wildlife habitat, property values, shade and aesthetic appeal are some of the most widely recognized…
Author(s): Prior, Sarah
Year Published: 2003
One of TREENET’s ongoing projects is compiling a database of all universities and TAFES within Australia that offer specific education covering arboriculture…
Author(s): Knight, Kym
Year Published: 2000
The selection, planting, care and management of trees, (including palms) woody shrubs and vines in the urban landscape…
Author(s): Amezdroz, Bob
Year Published: 2000
Since November 1988 the Electricity Act and Regulations have made restrictions to what could be planted under and near the powerlines throughout South Australia…
Author(s): Fakes, Judy
Year Published: 2000
The long-term success of street tree plantings is the end result of a complex process involving many players. To date it would seem that there has been a fair amount of good luck rather than good management…
Author(s): Handreck, Kevin
Year Published: 2000
TREENET sites need to be chosen so as to simulate the soil environment in which the trees will eventually grow. This is probably impossible in detail. But some data must be collected so that different sites can be compared…
Author(s): Hewett, Philip
Year Published: 2005
Clark and Matheny published a model of urban forests sustainability in 1997 1 – I recall reading the article and thinking how far removed we were in Australia from such holistic tree management thinking – that was 1997 yet now 8 years on things look very different…
Author(s): Hilditch, James
Year Published: 2005
In South Australia, “development” which is defined to include any “tree damaging activity” to a “significant tree” may not be undertaken without approval from the relevant planning authority…
Author(s): McKenzie, Ian
Year Published: 2005
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world…
Author(s): Mowling, Frances
Year Published: 2008
The implications of climate change on the availability of water in the landscape are profound, particularly in regard to environmental water requirements that maintain biodiversity and water quality. Water supply and quality are likely to be affected by higher air temperatures, increased evaporation rates and projected changes in amount and seasonality of rainfall…
Year Published: 2008
South Australia faces an apparent dilemma with respect to population. On the one hand, the ageing of the baby boom generation into retirement will necessitate continued growth of the working age population both to replace them in the workforce (they currently make up over 40 percent of the workforce) and to meet the costs of a doubling of the older population…
Year Published: 2008
The Sustainable Landscapes Project (SLP) began in July 2004 as a collaborative public/private partnership hosted by the Botanic Gardens of Adelaide…
