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Author(s): Howard, Adrian
Year Published: 2005
Soldiers Memorial Avenue is located on the eastern side of the main northwest – southeast ridgeline of the Domain. The Avenue stretches for over 1.5km along the riverside of the Queens Domain from Aberdeen St to the Cross Roads…
Year Published: 2018
Melbourne’s “Greening the West” (GTW) initiative is a successful example of water utilities actively supporting urban greening through facilitating collaboration between stakeholders…
Year Published: 2016
One of the main climate change challenges in urban centres is the combined patterns of high density human habitation with increasing urban heat patterns…
Year Published: 2018
Decayed wood is a common issue in urban trees that deteriorates tree vitality over time, yet its effect on biomass yield therefore stored carbon has been overlooked…
Author(s): Clark, Ross
Year Published: 2003
The new NATSPEC specification for trees was released in February 2003 as part of Specifying Trees – Ross Clark NATSPEC//Construction Information…
Author(s): Carter, Carlsa | McNamara, Philip
Year Published: 2006
The National Trust of South Australia is an independent membership organisation established in 1955 and is committed to the conservation of our Natural and Cultural Heritage…
Year Published: 2020
Urban parks are important within cities and towns for mitigating high air temperatures and improving human thermal comfort, especially during hot summer conditions…
Author(s): Hutchinson, Simon
Year Published: 2016
17th National StreetTree Symposium 2016 by Simon Hutchinson…
Year Published: 2019
Street trees play an important role in helping cities to adapt to multiple environmental perturbations resulting from urbanization, such as changes to the urban water cycle…
Author(s): Allen, Kathy | Baker, Patrick J. | Dobbs, Cynnamon | Livesley, Stephen J. | Lynch, Yvonne | Nichols, Scott | Nitschke, Craig R
Year Published: 2017
The recent decline in the health of the City of Melbourne’s deciduous tree species to a recent drought event has led to concerns about the vulnerability of the city’s trees to future climate change…
Author(s): Greenfield, Eric J. | Nowak, David J.
Year Published: 2020
Trees in cities provide numerous benefits to society by altering the local physical, biological and social environment, providing billions of dollars in annual benefits…
Year Published: 2019
Sky view factor (SVF), an important geometrical factor for the urban thermal environmental assessment, has a controversial impact in different urban contexts…
Author(s): Fakes, Judy
Year Published: 2005
This paper summarises the critical stages of managing the heritage landscapes and trees of the future from planning, site analysis…
Year Published: 2020
Cities around the world are pursuing tree planting as a way to increase tree cover. Despite the growing interest in planting trees as a way to offset climate change…
Year Published: 2018
Birds and figs are conspicuous members of the tropical and subtropical ecosystems. Because they are easily observed and very speciose…
Year Published: 2021
Trees are critical assets in the urban environment. From reducing pollution and the effects of urban heat islands, decreasing energy consumption…
Year Published: 2020
Urban parks provide numerous cultural ecosystem services that are essential to the wellbeing of residents…
Author(s): Li, Qiang-Feng | Song, Zuo-Min | Wan, Ji-Zhong | Wang, Chun-Jing | Wei, Deng-Xian | Wei, Guo-Liang | Yin, Guang-Jing
Year Published: 2020
Large old trees contribute to ecosystem integrity and biodiversity in urban and periurban areas. Quantifying the factors influencing the suitable habitats of large old trees is critical for management…
Year Published: 2018
Hollow-bearing trees provide critical habitat resources for forest fauna, yet there is evidence of a ubiquitous decline in the large, old trees most likely to provide this resource…
Year Published: 2021
There is an increased interest in including green roofs in building legislation to enable green infrastructure and improve the built environments…
Year Published: 2002
As populations become increasingly urbanised, national governments to local councils are recognising that the trees that line our streets…
Author(s): Shanahan, Danielle
Year Published: 2016
Though the benefits of urbanization for human society are unequivocal, it is now considered one of the most critical global health issues of the 21st century with high rates of chronic…
Author(s): Lodge, Marcus
Year Published: 2012
Burnside Village is a relatively major suburban shopping centre servicing the eastern suburbs of Adelaide. The owners of the shopping centre have tried to maintain the ‘village’ feel of the shopping centre through various developments over the past 20-30 years…
Year Published: 2019
The development of ‘greening’ cities introduces an uneasy tension between more green spaces and the increased use of scarce blue water resources to maintain this greenness…
