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Year Published: 2017
Urbanisation and a changing climate are leading to more frequent and severe flood, heat and air pollution episodes in Britain’s cities. Interest in nature-based solutions to these urban problems is growing, with urban forests potentially able to provide a range of regulating ecosystem services such as stormwater attenuation, heat amelioration and air purification…
Author(s): Brack, Cris | Gilbert, Michelle
Year Published: 2007
Trees on leased land provide an important contribution to Canberra’s urban forest and consequently the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) Government introduced legislation to protect urban trees on leased land from unwarranted removal under the Tree Protection (Interim Scheme) Act 2001…
Year Published: 2021
The structure of bird communities living in cities may have different characteristics depending on the magnitude of building versus green area. In this study, we evaluated the contribution of residential backyards to the diversity of urban birds in the city of Jacareí, São Paulo, Brazil…
Year Published: 2017
Choosing optimal and suitable trees and shrubs in urban areas can minimize the negative influences and increase the positive effects and the aesthetic acceptance by urban residents. Additional challenges in the selection of trees and shrubs are user requirements and growth conditions at urban sites…
Author(s): Daniels, Chris | Tait, Catherine J
Year Published: 2004
Urban ecosystems are where people live at high densities (equal to or greater than 186 people/ km2). Currently, slightly less than half the world’s population lives in dense urban areas, particularly cities. In industrialised countries this percentage is closer to 80%. Nearly 85% of Australians live in towns with 1000 or more inhabitants and 2/3rd of the population live in the eight capital cities…
The intent is for a design which factors the hardstand as a fully functional proper root-zone, in order to maximise the canopy potential and minimise the likelihood of pavement displacement.
The custom-soil is to be a cost/benefit analysis. Comparing canopy performance correlated with the monetary amenity values…
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): Pitman, C.
Year Published: 2000
The City of Salisbury has been propagating and planting an average of 50,000 trees per annum, with a peak planting season in 1997, totalling 212,000 plants in a year…
Year Published: 2007
Across the nation, people have taken an interest in climate change issues. The Brisbane community wants to do their part in helping to reduce their impact on the environment…
Year Published: 2020
Concentrations of building mass and insufficient greenery in cities are identified to contribute significantly to extended heat stress in the built environment, commonly known as the urban heat island (UHI) effect. This paper presents a scenario-based modelling built on climate change projections and potential alterations of urban greenery in 2030 and 2090 in Adelaide, South Australia…
Author(s): Brook, Barry W. | Wilkins, Hubert
Year Published: 2008
Treenet Symposium about Synergies and tipping points in the climate system…
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…
Author(s): Johnson, Tim
Year Published: 2020
TREENET supports research and knowledge sharing to better integrate trees into cities. Since it began in 1997, TREENET has collaborated with industry, government, research and educational institutions to progress Australian urban forestry. The understanding that trees are fundamental assets which support healthy and resilient communities is now more widespread due to TREENET, to similarly focused agencies worldwide and to global awareness and concern regarding climate change and urbanisation…
Author(s): Jim, C.Y. | Lo, Alex Y.
Year Published: 2015
Mature urban trees dwelling on old masonry walls are a rare urban ecological and landscape treasure. These ‘stonewall’ trees denoting synergy between nature (trees) and culture (masonry) are worth preserving…
Author(s): Kendal, Dave
Year Published: 2020
Over the last few years we have been exploring which urban tree species may be suited to future climates (Kendal et al., 2018, 2017). This is being strongly influenced by urban heat, and increasingly by climate change. Tree managers were thinking about using trees to adapt cities to climate change; we now understand that urban heat and climate change are having effects on urban trees themselves..
Author(s): Foley, Anna
Year Published: 2014
Building on the success of the Trust Trees app launched in Victoria in 2011, the new National Trusts of Australia Register of Significant Trees website will be completed in August 2014. This brings the Trusts’ state-based significant tree data together as one national dataset for the first time…
Author(s): Baldwin, Louise | Beckman, Melanie | Butler, Harry J. | Downs, Nathan J. | Harrison, Simone | Parisi, Alfio V. | Vanos, Jennifer
Year Published: 2019
Standardised assessments comparing the surveyed shade quality characteristics of twenty-one trees currently established and growing in public parks and playgrounds in Queensland, Australia are presented for informing local government, shade designers and municipal planners…
Year Published: 2019
A practical demonstration of techniques and ideas, for the construction of passageways for arboreal animals across roadways, using trees, poles and rope ladders…
Author(s): Cariñanos, Paloma | Delgado-Capel, Manuel | Guillermo Benítez | Maradiaga-Marín, Fernanda
Year Published: 2019
Food provision is designated as one of the ecosystem services provided by urban forests which are comprised of numerous fruit trees. In cities with a Mediterranean climate, the use of fruit trees has a long historical tradition, although its main function has been ornamental…
Author(s): Hassanli, Ali
Year Published: 2013
Dr Ali Hassanli – The 14th Treenet National Street Tree Symposium…
Author(s): Plant, Lyndal
Year Published: 2002
Over the last 6 years Brisbane’s central business district has grown significantly greener and more pedestrian friendly,..
Author(s): Julian, Phillip
Year Published: 2018
The delivery of tree maintenance and related services can have a major impact on the success of urban forest strategies and policies that a Council may have…
Author(s): Gallagher, Libby
Year Published: 2018
Research undertaken in recent decades have established that urban tree canopy can significantly improve local temperatures, reduce urban heat, improve air quality and reduce air-conditioning costs (Simpson and McPherson 1996,1998; Hart & Sailor 2009, Stone 2012, Taha 1997 Rosenweig et al., 2006, Gallagher 2015)…
