Urban Forest Update – February 2009
Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009UPCOMING CONFERENCES AND EVENTS
12th European Forum on Urban Forestry – Call for abstracts
- Green city marketing – how can urban forests and other green spaces be used to promote cities?
- Children and nature how do we develop urban forests that promote use by children and youths, e.g. for educational and health purposes?;
- Participatory urban forestry sharing experiences about collaboration between planners, managers, interest groups and residents;
- Strategic and innovative urban forestry how to we successfully develop urban forests for the future, linking up to major political agendas, using concepts such as green infrastructure, marketing of green values, etc.?
Abstracts of up to 300 words and with full authors details should be submitted to Mr. John Raggers, john.raggers@wur.nl, no later than March 11, 2009.
The EFUFs programme will start with an ice-breaker at Tuesday 26 May (evening) and end on Saturday 30 May with an excursion of the Veluwe forest region. Further information (e.g. on how to register) will soon become available from http://www.arnhem.nl/content.jsp?objectid=69936.
St. Petersburg, Russia, 1-3 June 2009
St. Petersburg is the most European city in Russia with numerous historical landscapes under UNESCO protection. At the same time St. Petersburg is one of the largest Russian and European megapolises that experiences all the problems of a modern city and consequences of integration in a global market system. The theme of this conference will allow discussion of very broad questions for example European Influence in Russian monuments of garden art, Methods of Historical landscape restoration: international and Russian experience, Life of historical landscapes in the era of market economy and globalisation: positive and negative experiences, Search of historical landscape integration into modern landscapes and Historical landscapes as an inspiration for modern landscape architecture. For more information about this event, contact Dr. Maria Ignatieva at ignatiem@lincoln.ac.nz.
15th International Symposium on Society and Resource Management (ISSRM 2009)- Call for abstracts
Vienna, Austria, 5-8 July 2009
Abstracts for this event, titled Meet Old and New Worlds in Research, Planning and Management, are due 9 February 2009. Check out the events web-site, with information about transportation, accommodations, post-conference field trips and the spousal program: http://www.issrm09.info. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact the organisers at issrm09@boku.ac.at.
ECLAS Conference 2009 – Call for abstracts
Genoa, Italy, 23-27 September 2009
This year’s conference of the European Council of Landscape Architecture Schools will have as its theme Landscape & Ruins – Planning and Design for the Regeneration of Derelict Places. Deadline for abstracts is 23 February 2009; abstracts should be addressed to: eclas2009@arch.unige.it. Read more about the conference at http://www.eclas.org/eclas-conference-details.php?mode=next.
XIII World Forestry Congress – Call for abstracts
Buenos Aires, 18-25 October 2009
The XIII World Forestry Congress (WFC) will be held in Buenos Aires, Argentina on 18-25 October 2009. This Congress can provide a good opportunity to keep high the attention on the role of “Forest and Trees for Healthy Cities Improving Livelihoods and Environment for All”. There will be several sessions with attention for urban forestry and forests-health links. Hence you are encouraged to submit abstracts of your studies and research to the organizers of the Congress. ABSTRACTS SHOULD BE SUBMITTED BY 15 FEBRUARY 2009. Abstracts should be submitted following the instructions provided on the Congress website: www.wfc2009.org. If the automatic system for uploading the abstracts doesn’t work, please send to: WFC-XIII@fao.org.
The following items should be included: 1) Type of presentation (voluntary paper); 2) Thematic session (in relation with the programme of the WFC); 3) Title; 4) Author(s); 5) E-mail and mailing addresses of the main author; 6) Abstract (minimum 300 words maximum 400 words); 7) Between 3 and 5 keywords. Texts must be written in one of the three official languages of the Congress (English, French or Spanish). Abstracts submitted in other languages will not be taken into consideration. The acceptance of abstracts does not imply that the papers will be presented orally at the Congress. The decision of the reviewing committee to this effect will only be taken once the review of the full papers is completed. The authors whose abstracts have been accepted must submit the full papers before 31 May 2009.
NEW PUBLICATIONS
Journal Urban Forestry & Urban Greening publishes first issue of 2009
This scientific journals first issue of Volume 8 is now available online, at www.sciencedirect.com. This issue includes articles on, for example, a decision support system for urban tree planting programs, a new management regime for public green spaces in the Nordic countries, and on exogenous applications of carbohydrates on the growth and vitality of live oaks. As always, new papers are very welcome - submit at http://ees.elsevier.com/ufug.
Arboriculture and Urban Forestry - Special issue resulting from ISA-IUFRO event on urban forest structure
A recent special issue of the scientific journal Arboriculture and Urban Forestry focuses on urban forest structure. This issue, compiled by IUFRO Urban Forestry deputy coordinator David Nowak, includes papers presented during a special co-organised by IUFRO at the International Society of Arboriculture (ISA) 2008 Congress. For a table of contents, see http://joa.isa-arbor.com/articles.asp?JournalID=1&VolumeID=34&IssueID=6. IUFRO Urban Forestry and ISA have agreed to jointly host future events of this type as well. For more information, contact David Nowak at dnowak@fs.fed.us.
New book: European Forest Recreation and Tourism, edited by Simon Bell et al.
This new handbook draws on an EU-wide project (COST E33) which over the last four years has collected the expertise of more than 80 professionals and academics, from 24 countries in Europe, on forest recreation and nature tourism research, planning and management. It brings together the most up to date, state of the art knowledge and makes it available to policy makers, planners, managers and students. For more information, see http://www.routledgesport.com/books/European-Forest-Recreation-and-Tourism-isbn9780415443630.
You can download the latest issue of this interesting newsletter on developments and activities in Asian arboriculture and urban forestry (winter 2008) from http://www.asiatreepreservation.com/images/2008%20December%20ARBORNews%20Asia.pdf.
Paper on Low Impact Urban Design and Development (LIUDD): matching urban design and urban ecology
This article by Ignatieva, Stewart and Meurk was recently published in Landscape Review (12(2). For obtaining a copy of this paper, contact Maria Ignatieva at ignatiem@lincoln.ac.nz.