Australian Urban Forest Literature Database
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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): May, Peter
Year Published: 2009
The recent run of drier then average years and dwindling urban water supplies have tree managers looking for strategies to maintain the health of their tree populations…
Author(s): Shears, Ian
Year Published: 2009
Over the past 10 years there has been a significant shift in the way that the City of Melbourne regards the role that trees play within its urban fabric. In a period of time well short of the life span of a long- lived urban tree, there has been a significant shift from trees being viewed from predominantly aesthetic and heritage perspectives to an understanding that trees are an integral component of the complex green infrastructure of the city…
Author(s): Lawry, David
Year Published: 2009
In 2004 at the 5th National Street Tree Symposium, the TREENET Avenues of Honour 1915-2015 Project was launched. It is ‘a national project to honour with a tree the memory of every individual who has made the supreme sacrifice…
Author(s): Tarran, Jane
Year Published: 2009
The present paper deals with an area that would be familiar to many in the audience on a daily basis, as they manage trees in urban environments with people…
Author(s): Ely, Martin
Year Published: 2009
Trees should be an essential, rather than merely a desirable part of our cities. Street trees provide the city with a wide range of…
Author(s): Brindal, Mark
Year Published: 2009
It can be argued that trees occupy the same zone in the emotional intelligence of our species as do Pandas: there are many species of animals which are far more threatened than the Panda but there is something about its size…
Author(s): Norris, Martin
Year Published: 2010
Broadly speaking, an act of God is a contract or tort law defence for an event (accident) that was caused by natural forces that were outside human control and that could not have been prevented by ordinary skill and foresight…
Author(s): Livesley, Stephen J.
Year Published: 2010
Increasing the number of urban trees, and appropriately positioning those trees in relation to buildings and impervious surfaces, is a simple but effective strategy for…
Author(s): Moore, Greg
Year Published: 2010
The Black Saturday fires that occurred on 7 February 2009 in Victoria conjure images of destruction, damage and death. These fires, like those of Ash Wednesday in 1983, and more recently in Sydney, South Australia, Western Australia and Canberra, are seen as devastating and catastrophic to the natural environment, human life and property…
Author(s): Tapper, Nigel
Year Published: 2010
Climate change is now accepted as real and requires immediate development of strategies for…
Author(s): Flanery, Fleur
Year Published: 2010
Between November 2009 and May 2010 approximately 490,000 of Canberra’s urban trees were assessed and the findings recorded…
Author(s): Curran, Beth | Daniels, Chris | Ely, Martin | Goodwin, Christine | Gurner-Hall, Pam | Hopkins, Graeme | Johnson, Tim | Lawry, David | Nottle, Trevor | Pitman, Sheryn | Ray, Darren | Roetman, Philip | Smith, Keith | Zwar, John
Year Published: 2010
Author(s): Grant, Cameron
Year Published: 2010
Neutron moisture meters, NMMs, measure the amount of water in a given volume of soil. The volume of water divided by the total volume of soil is called the volumetric water content, VWC, which we express in various ways, such as m3 of water per m3 of soil, or mm of water per m-depth of soil…
Author(s): Kenyon, Patrick | Kenyon, Philip
Year Published: 2010
Approximately 300+ species of wildlife use tree hollows throughout Australia. Tree hollows are of great importance as they are used as nesting sites, shelters and safe refuges…
Author(s): Boardman, Bob | Knight, Kym
Year Published: 2010
The name is from Latin and which was used widely through the Roman Empire for oaks of all kinds. It was derived from the Greek word…
Author(s): Taylor, Sandra
Year Published: 2014
This paper explores the causes and consequences of the fact that many of the people living in cities no longer value nature and no longer see it as relevant to their lives…
Year Published: 2014
Warming associated with urban development will be exacerbated in future years by temperature increases due to climate change. The strategic implementation of urban green infrastructure…
