Australian Urban Forest Literature Database
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Author(s): Moore, Greg
Year Published: 2015
A recent request to write briefly about the trends affecting Australian arboriculture proved to be a difficult task. In considering a country that is continental…
Year Published: 2015
Population centres are changing from rural to urbanised areas, with increasing development to create supportive infrastructure…
Author(s): Argue, John R.
Year Published: 2006
The dominant hydrological process which takes place in a forested catchment is that of retention. This is evident from the point of contact which incident rainfall makes with the forest canopy, through the mechanism of…
Author(s): Wettenhall, Georgie
Year Published: 2006
Removing pollutants from urban stormwater runoff is a key component of the Water Sensitive Urban Design (WSUD) philosophy. Treating urban runoff can add value to the urban landscape as well as protecting downstream receiving-waters…
Author(s): Taylor, Kevin
Year Published: 2006
Design is an important part of the growth of our urban forest, in fact as development pressures use up more and more available soil, innovative design that is integral to the development process is increasingly essential…
Author(s): Leadbeater, Steve
Year Published: 2006
The purpose of this paper is to explore the conflicting challenges faced by many utilities, Councils, and Road Transport Authorities (RTA) when managing vegetation on road reserves, and the impact of conflicting messages emerging from the industry…
Author(s): Sweeney, Karen
Year Published: 2006
Since the first days of the settlement of Sydney Cove, there have been significant challenges for the establishment of an urban forest. Early governors such as Phillip, King and Macquarie had visions of grand boulevards and some understanding of town planning…
Author(s): Plant, Lyndal
Year Published: 2006
The glorious weather of the sunshine state is one of the reasons why more than 16,000 people are currently moving to Brisbane every year, creating a need for at least 50,000 more dwellings by 2026 than allowed for in the current City Plan…
Author(s): Hughes, Stephen
Year Published: 2006
Trees fill Canberra’s suburbs, streets, parks and places, bringing life and colour to the city and earning its reputation as a ‘garden city’ and the ‘bush capital’…
Author(s): Galwey, David
Year Published: 2006
Contrary to popular opinion, standards are not forced upon us by a governing body. Rather, they are developed by industry when there is a need for uniform national guidelines for the industry and for the wellbeing of the broader community…
Author(s): Olsen, Karen
Year Published: 2006
Who has not had a sinking feeling on discovering that the highly hazardous, structurally poor, uneven-canopied, failing or senescent tree in a local street or park is listed as being of heritage significance…
Author(s): Eamus, Derek
Year Published: 2007
Trees are important components of landscapes, whether that is in an urban, rural or wilderness landscapes. Their importance includes their economic, biodiversity, conservation, ecological, aesthetic and spiritual value…
Author(s): Moore, Greg
Year Published: 2007
At the Treenet Symposium in 2006, the issue of the greenhouse effect and climate change were major topics of the opening session…
Author(s): McManus, Phil
Year Published: 2007
Imagine having to travel just to see trees – not because you want to, but because it is the only way that you can get to see real, live, growing trees. It sounds like an absurd idea you might think…
Author(s): Stringer, Randy
Year Published: 2007
The purpose of this presentation is to review issues raised in our 2002 TREENET Symposium paper, The Economic Value of Urban Trees…
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…
Author(s): Summers, Jason
Year Published: 2007
Developing an inventory of trees for a whole city seems daunting; the reality is that it takes a lot of hard work. In this paper I plan to outline the processes and outcomes that have changed the way we manage trees in the City of Hume…
Author(s): Moore, Greg
Year Published: 2011
While it is usually assumed that the impacts of climate change on street trees and urban forests will be deleterious, the real scenario will be more subtle. Some species will benefit from climate change and others will be disadvantaged…
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…
