Questions and Answers
Questions and Answers…
2009
Are We There Yet? Learning From The Past: Lessons For The Future
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…
Urban Trees: Worth More Than They Cost
G M Moore – Research Associate, Burnley College, University of Melbourne, 500 Yarra Boulevard, Richmond Victoria 3021 ABSTRACT: Trees are major urban infrastructure assets. While costs, and the damage and nuisancevalues attributed to trees are widely known, the benefits they provide are often subtle and under- appreciated. Cities are biodiversity hot spots due to the …
Urban Forest: Risk Started The Ball Rolling – So What Will Sustain It?
Philip Hewett, City Arborist, City of Newcastle NSW Introduction My 2003 essay, ‘As We Think – So We Manage’, considered how influential language was in shaping response to tree-infrastructure interactions. For government, insurers, utilities and many ‘asphalt-hardened’ engineers, tree removal was the first rather than the last consideration. In the words of architect and author Robin …
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Treenet Trials 2009: A Species Odyssey
Tim Johnson, Senior Arborist, City of Mitcham Introduction Street tree trials have been a fundamental part of TREENET since its inception in 1997.Ten years since it was discussed at TREENET’s first symposium, the focus on tree species selection remains, and other factors which impact on the effective functioning of urban trees are also receiving considerable attention. …
TREENET: 2000-2009
Judy Fakes, Head Teacher – Parks, Gardens & Arboriculture Ryde College of TAFE, NSW TREENET stands for Tree and Roadway Experimental and Educational Network. It is an independent not-for-profit organisation dedicated to improving the urban forest. It is funded by grants and voluntary contributions from participating councils, nurseries and other groups. In 2000 at the inaugural TREENET symposium, …
The Value Of Urban Trees: Environmental Factors And Economic Efficiency
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…
Planning For Trees In Urban Environments
Trees should be an essential, rather than merely a desirable part of our cities. Street trees provide the city with a wide range of…
People And Trees: Providing Benefits, Overcoming Impediments
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…
HALF TIME IN THE TREENET AVENUES OF HONOUR 1915-2015 PROJECT
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…