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Author(s): Hewett, Philip
Year Published: 2005
Clark and Matheny published a model of urban forests sustainability in 1997 1 – I recall reading the article and thinking how far removed we were in Australia from such holistic tree management thinking – that was 1997 yet now 8 years on things look very different…
Author(s): Duncan, Elizabeth | Iping, Alexander | Kidston-Lattari, Juliette | McManus, Phil | Simpson-Young, Alice
Year Published: 2019
The effects of climate change and urban heat islands are predicted to grow and compound in the future. In the context of urban heat becoming an increasing problem, this article explores the extent to which this is recognised in media…
Author(s): Cockerel, Sarah
Year Published: 2004
This paper is an overview of a preliminary investigation into all tree avenues planted as War memorials throughout Australia. It cannot claim to be a complete record and in some ways serves only to highlight the gaps in our knowledge…
Author(s): Lawry, David | Moore, Greg
Year Published: 2015
A group of seven people from the community came together to help put together an amazing project which was delivered…
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, there is great variability – north south, east, west, urban,
regional and rural, tropical and temperate…
Author(s): Fakes, Judy | Moore, Greg
Year Published: 2019
Greg Moore and Judy Fakes recap on the Day One experience for delegates…
Year Published: 2018
Urban forest structures are defined by the spatial arrangement between vegetation and the built environment, within urban areas. These are often shaped by urban forest strategies that are defined by
the relationship between anthropogenic and natural processes in the city…
Author(s): Levett, Peter | Young, Peter
Existing Infrastructure, TreeNet Inlet Trials, Methodology, Rain Garden Development, and Future applications…
Author(s): Kearney, Bob
Believe it or not you and me and my mates at the Virtual War Memorial have a lot in common – but we have to dig a bit to understand why…
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…
Year Published: 2013
Surveys of dying vegetation within remnant bushland, parks and gardens, and streetscapes throughout the urban forest of Perth and the South-west of Western Australia revealed symptoms typical of those produced by Phytophthora species…
Author(s): Cameron, Donald
Year Published: 2015
In the geotechnical engineer’s mind, complex natural systems like trees and their interaction with the soil and the atmosphere need to be simplified into more manageable concepts. To a lesser degree, the same could be said of agronomists and foresters…
Author(s): Moore, Greg
Year Published: 2000
The role of trees in the urban landscape is essential not only to the aesthetics of cities, but also for the well-being of their citizens. Australians tend to take their parks, avenues and boulevards for granted, but in recent years there has been a significant loss of public open space, and a series of dramatic and often unintended attacks on trees growing in urban environments…
Author(s): Hewett, Philip
Year Published: 2010
A moderated forum on maintaining and renewing the urban forest…
Year Published: 2020
Vegetation alters urban climates via transpirational cooling; however, unlike shorter vegetation, trees additionally provide shade and shelter. Urban canopy models (UCMs) are coupled with mesoscale models for assessment of neighbourhood-scale climate, but their representation of urban trees is limited…
Author(s): Ellis, Maree | Faulconer, Patrick
Year Published: 2004
Shoalhaven City Council has revised its Tree Preservation Order. It now exempts “Tree works on private land where any part of a tree is above a line 45 degrees from the vertical extension of the wall of any building measured from its base”. This rule is confusing and it does not work…
Author(s): Brown, Ian
Year Published: 2003
Tree Trial: Do we need one? Is anybody interested?
In the ideal Nursery world we could all still be growing trees in kerosene containers…
Author(s): Hewett, Philip
Year Published: 2011
The Newcastle City Council Tree Asset Management System (TAMS) records 109,000 street and park trees of which 1217 are the Hills Fig (Ficus microcarpa var Hilli). The Hills Fig public tree population comprises 832 semi-mature trees and 374 mature trees…
Author(s): Baynes, Tim | Hiroki Tanikawa | Marcos-Martinez, Raymundo | Miatto, Alessio | Schandl, Heinz | Yu, Zefan
Year Published: 2020
Decision makers, planners and actors in cities design policies, plan, invest money and build infrastructure, and consumers buy houses and use transport infrastructure without sound information about the environmental consequences of many of those decisions…
Year Published: 2020
Trees have been found to have significant cooling effect on outdoor thermal environment. This study explores the characteristics of a tree component (crown) that accounts for a large portion of the cooling effect…
Year Published: 2017
Rapid environmental change presents many challenges and uncertainties for planners and decision makers of both urban and natural vegetation. Changes to current practices are needed, based on understanding conditions expected in the future, rather than relying on historical conventions…