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Author(s): Carrocci, Daniel
Year Published: 2003
Arboriculture- the care and management of trees- is an increasingly important industry in the urban environment yet the extent of education and training in this area is unclear…
Author(s): Davison, Aidan | Kirkpatrick, Jamie
Year Published: 2017
The framing of urban trees has shifted from adornment or obstruction to a key asset in the delivery of ecological, economic and social services. This transition has been interwoven with the rise of the profession of arboriculture from the ashbed of tree lopping and naive nativism…
Author(s): Denman, Liz
Year Published: 2006
Stormwater management is shifting from systems that rapidly collect and discharge stormwater to nearby waterways towards more sustainable methods. These newer strategies aim to reduce contaminant load and the volume of runoff by incorporating stormwater treatment into the design of urban landscapes…
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): Sweeney, Karen
Year Published: 2009
The City of Sydney (the City) has undergone a massive change in its awareness, understanding and appreciation of trees within the past 10 years. Numerous tree management policies have been written, adopted and executed…
Author(s): Plant, Lyndal
Year Published: 2009
At the 8th Treenet Symposium in 2007 the recommendations and targets of the Brisbane Climate Change and Energy Action Plan were outlined. The Plan combines responses to the impacts of climate change for Brisbane with broader sustainability actions…
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): Fakes, Judy
Year Published: 2006
The development of an Australian Standard is a lengthy and detailed process involving representatives from relevant groups and organisations, an officer from Standards Australia and extensive public comment and consultation. The development and current review of AS4373 Pruning of Amenity Trees is no exception…
Author(s): Fitzgibbon, John | Kramer, Colin
Year Published: 2017
Assessing and Specifying Nursery Tree Stock Quality
-John Fitzgibbon (Metro Trees) and Colin Kramer (Trees Sales)…
Year Published: 2021
Urban forests and trees are affected by potential biotic and abiotic climate change impacts. To enhance urban forest adaptability and resilience to climate change impacts, tree species with high local climate adaptability and robust stress tolerance should be identified and selected…
Year Published: 2021
This study presents an one-way coupling approach between the ENVI-met microclimate model and the EnergyPlus building energy simulation program, to assess the effect of the urban greenery on the improvement of the buildings’ cooling energy needs, in a dense urban area in Thessaloniki, Greece…
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…
Year Published: 2021
Increasing urban green spaces and canopy cover requires careful planning of irrigation strategies, especially in arid and semiarid areas. This study investigates how vegetation cover and irrigation affect the water balance and vegetation productivity of a small urban reserve in the Melbourne metropolitan area, Australia…
Author(s): Taffe, Michael
Year Published: 2020
As early as 1892, H. A. James, prominent Sydney horticulturist and garden-writer, took the capital cities to task for having no avenues such as those at Ballarat in Victoria…
Author(s): Shears, Ian
Year Published: 2005
The City of Melbourne is internationally renowned for its tree-lined boulevards and parks and gardens characterised by avenue plantings along formal path networks. Melbourne’s community is protective of its trees, and actively aware and interested in their health and maintenance…
Author(s): Moore, Greg
Year Published: 2006
A National project which aims to honour with a tree the memory of every individual who has made the supreme sacrifice on behalf of all Australians, by documenting, preserving and reinstating the original and establishing new Avenues of Honour by the Centenary of Anzac in 2015…
Author(s): Lawry, David | Peacock, Darren
Year Published: 2013
The Avenues of Honour 1915-2015 project is a national initiative to honour with a tree the memory of every individual who has made the supreme sacrifice on behalf of all Australians, by documenting, preserving and reinstating the original, and establishing new Avenues of Honour, during the Centenary of World War I in the period April 25th 2015 through to November 11th 2018…
Author(s): Read, Stuart
Year Published: 2018
November 2018 marks the centenary of Armistice Day, 1918 – the end of World War 1: the ‘Great War’. To mark it, an Australian contingent will be in France attending ceremonies and contributing to an international conference on avenues of honour…
Author(s): Scarce, Kevin
Year Published: 2019
I am delighted to join you this afternoon at the 20th National TREENET Symposium, and equally delighted to join as Patron of the Avenues of Honour Project…
Author(s): Parke, Neridah | Plant, Lyndal
Year Published: 2007
In July 2007 Brisbane City Council published an Avenues of Honour Research Report about twenty four known memorial and commemorative tree planting sites within the Brisbane City Council area, in support of the national project. Among those planting sites are some of the earliest plantings in Australia undertaken in 1917 for local soldiers who lost their lives in World War One…
Author(s): Cockerel, Sarah
Year Published: 2008
A large body of research exists on the topic of war memorials. From ancient to modern times war shave been apart of human history and memorials to battles, hero’s, victory and defeats are common all over the planet. However most investigations in to the form and history of war memorials have only focused on completely artificial structures…
Engineered spaces were expanded to provide the greatest amount of soil volume per tree whilst balancing…
Author(s): Bateup, Ross
Year Published: 2018
All Day One Symposium guest presenters were brilliantly “on message”.
Those messages were reinforced and superbly captured by cartoonist Ross Bateup – Bateup Urban Design Cartoons…
