How tree professionals perceive trees and conflicts about trees in Australia's urban forest

Kirkpatrick, J. B.; Davison, AG; Harwood, Andrew

doi:10.1016/j.landurbplan.2013.07.009

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“…This may be related to the lack of awareness regarding climate changeinduced problems and the benefits NbS can bring. Even though a number of urban planners are aware of the benefits urban green areas provide, as shown by the increasing number of green infrastructure strategies being developed, some policy makers and/or residents may not be as aware or might even have the perception that green installations on roofs and walls are harmful, e.g., are "dirty and host insects," creating additional perception hurdles (Lohr et al 2004, Kirkpatrick et al 2013, Kronenberg 2015. With local urban policy officers and planners often being risk averse, these unknowns create roadblocks for the uptake of NbS in cities.…”

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Nature-based solutions to climate change mitigation and adaptation in urban areas: perspectives on indicators, knowledge gaps, barriers, and opportunities for action

Kabisch¹,

Frantzeskaki²,

Pauleit³

et al. 2016

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. 2016. Nature-based solutions to climate change mitigation and adaptation in urban areas: perspectives on indicators, knowledge gaps, barriers, and opportunities for action. Ecology and Society 21 (2) ABSTRACT. Nature-based solutions promoting green and blue urban areas have significant potential to decrease the vulnerability and enhance the resilience of cities in light of climatic change. They can thereby help to mitigate climate change-induced impacts and serve as proactive adaptation options for municipalities. We explore the various contexts in which nature-based solutions are relevant for climate mitigation and adaptation in urban areas, identify indicators for assessing the effectiveness of nature-based solutions and related knowledge gaps. In addition, we explore existing barriers and potential opportunities for increasing the scale and effectiveness of nature-based solution implementation. The results were derived from an inter-and transdisciplinary workshop with experts from research, municipalities, policy, and society. As an outcome of the workshop discussions and building on existing evidence, we highlight three main needs for future science and policy agendas when dealing with nature-based solutions: (i) produce stronger evidence on nature-based solutions for climate change adaptation and mitigation and raise awareness by increasing implementation; (ii) adapt for governance challenges in implementing nature-based solutions by using reflexive approaches, which implies bringing together new networks of society, nature-based solution ambassadors, and practitioners; (iii) consider socio-environmental justice and social cohesion when implementing nature-based solutions by using integrated governance approaches that take into account an integrative and transdisciplinary participation of diverse actors. Taking these needs into account, nature-based solutions can serve as climate mitigation and adaptation tools that produce additional cobenefits for societal well-being, thereby serving as strong investment options for sustainable urban planning.

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Nature-based solutions to climate change mitigation and adaptation in urban areas: perspectives on indicators, knowledge gaps, barriers, and opportunities for action

Kabisch¹,

Frantzeskaki²,

Pauleit³

et al. 2016

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“…These groups reflect differences in expertise, values, priorities, and professional paradigms [29,32]; these in turn can dictate the species composition of street trees. For example, the popularity of tree lilac and London plane (Platanusˆacerifolia) in newer neighbourhoods could be due to the preference of a particular urban forester or planner, based on factors such as tolerance to urban stresses, maintenance, growth rate, shade value, and cost.…”

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Managing Tree Diversity: A Comparison of Suburban Development in Two Canadian Cities

Nitoslawski

Duinker

2016

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Is (sub)urban forest diversity shaped by previous land use? This study was designed to quantitatively assess the impacts of subdivision development on urban tree-species composition in two Canadian cities: Halifax, Nova Scotia, and London, Ontario. The main goal was to determine whether cities with contrasting pre-urbanized or pre-settlement landscapes-woodlands in Halifax and agricultural fields in London-also revealed differences in urban tree diversity losses and/or gains due to urbanization. In each city, four residential neighbourhoods representing two age categories, older and newer (40-50 years, <15 years), were examined and trees on three land types were sampled: public (street), private (residential), and remnant (woodland). All public street trees within the chosen neighbourhoods were inventoried and approximately 10% of the residential property lots were sampled randomly. Plots were examined in remnant forests in or near each city, representing the original forest habitats prior to agricultural and/or urban landscape transformations. Diameter at breast height, species richness and evenness, and proportions of native and non-native trees were measured. In both cities, streetscapes in newer neighbourhoods exhibit greater species richness and evenness, and are characterized by substantially more native trees. Despite this trend, developers and home owners continue to intensively plant non-native species on newer and smaller property lots. Older neighbourhoods in Halifax containing remnant forest stands hold the greatest number of native trees on private property, alluding to the importance of residual forest buffers and patches in promoting naturalness in the private urban forest. These results suggest that identifying and quantifying flows of species between green spaces during and after development is valuable in order to effectively promote native species establishment and enhance overall urban forest diversity.

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“…The arborists steer a middle path between the ecologists, who value potentially dangerous trees as habitat, and engineers, who tend not to perceive the existence of green infrastructure. Although no longer labelled tree doctors, they have transcended the role of lopper to provide medical services to trees and psychological services (Kirkpatrick et al ., 2013b) to those who pretend to own them. Their profession is therefore at the forefront of action for urban sustainability, largely thanks to the gross misperception of tree hazards that prevails in most of Australia.…”

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Risk and the Arborist in the Remaking of the Australian Urban Forest

Davison

Kirkpatrick

2014

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The emerging profession of arboriculture has influenced Australian urban landscapes over the past decade. Arborists manage the urban forest as a core component of urban sustainability. We analyse qualitative interviews with 53 professionals involved in tree management in six eastern Australian cities to determine the ways in which a concern with risk management has shaped both the urban forest and the professional status and role of arborists. We found tree‐related risk has, in part, worked against urban greening by reducing tree size. However, an emerging risk culture has encouraged the development of the profession of arboriculture, which, in turn, has pioneered sophisticated ways, familiar to neither engineers nor ecologists, of ensuring the cohabitation of people and trees.

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How tree professionals perceive trees and conflicts about trees in Australia's urban forest

Cited by 53 publications

References 16 publications

Nature-based solutions to climate change mitigation and adaptation in urban areas: perspectives on indicators, knowledge gaps, barriers, and opportunities for action

Nature-based solutions to climate change mitigation and adaptation in urban areas: perspectives on indicators, knowledge gaps, barriers, and opportunities for action

Managing Tree Diversity: A Comparison of Suburban Development in Two Canadian Cities

Risk and the Arborist in the Remaking of the Australian Urban Forest

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