Seminars
Treework Environmental Practice Conference XV
Trees and Urban Climate Adaptation
A social agenda for liveable cities
In partnership with the Forestry Commission
19th November 2009
The Royal Geographical Society, 1 Kensington Gore, London SW7 2AR
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This conference builds upon the success of the 2008 Trees: The Key to Climate Proofing Our Cities conference focusing on the University of Manchester’s research showing the influence of green infrastructure on the urban climate.
Available data underpin the case for ensuring there is no avoidable loss of large-canopy urban trees, providing for future large trees in urban design and planning, and bringing our parks into city streets. To effect necessary change, no change in legislation is necessary – but rather a co-ordination and re-direction of thinking and practice.
This conference aims to mobilise policy makers and the wider community to ensure a sustainable urban forest canopy capable of meeting future climate adaptation needs. The urban canopy agenda will be met by including climate adaptation within the national health and well-being agenda.
Speakers:
- Professor John Handley OBE, University of Manchester
Conference Chair - Tim Rollinson, Director General of the Forestry Commission
Keynote Address - Neville, Treework Environmental Practice
Arboriculture’s role in trees and climate adaptation - Simon Murray, Simon Murray & Co
Session Chair - Dr Susannah Gill, University of Manchester
The essential role of trees: Adapting cities to climate change by managing high temperatures and reducing pressure on drainage systems - Isabel Dedring, Mayoral Advisor on the Environment
The spatial framework for London and the importance of London’s urban canopy - Dr Mark Johnston MBE, Myerscough College
Trees in Towns II: Government recognition of urban forest needs - Martin Kelly, MD Capita Lovejoy / Trees and Design Action Group
Big trees in the four-dimensional urban realm - Diane Smith, Town & Country Planning Association
Planning for eco-towns: Water and green Infrastructure, A European perspective - Tony Hutchings, Forest Research
The Forest Research Climate Change and Street Trees project - Sir Terry Farrell, Terry Farrell & Partners
The Thames Gateway: The design vision and creating treed infrastructure - Dr Paula Vandergert, Commission for Architecture in the Built Environment (CABE)
Sustainable cities: Creating tools for better green urban design - Pete Stringer, Red Rose Forest
Green infrastructure: A vehicle for working with communities to tackle climate change - Katie Roberts , Trees for Cities
Securing urban trees through community involvement: Planting street and community trees in disadvantaged urban locations
This event will be relaunched next year.
Treework Environmental Practice Seminar XIV
Trees & Conflict Resolution
In collaboration with RSA* Fellowship
&
Coventry University
12th November 2009
The RSA*, 8 John Adam Street, London WC2N 6EZ
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This conference will look at how trees have come to influence the fundamentals of social process and how controlling trees that provide people with a living affects survival, empowerment and political participation.
In Israel and Palestine, the olive tree symbolises both the potential for reconciliation and the means to control livelihoods. In India, experience shows that making sure the people retain control of seeds, biodiversity and traditional knowledge generates livelihoods and promotes economic and social independence. In Africa, trees are used in conflict resolution and reconciliation processes and are integral to livelihoods through the reversal of deforestation and desertification. And in Afghanistan, farmers are replacing poppy growing with pomegranate cultivation as a means of recreating the legal economic self-sufficiency taken from them by war and conflict.
Speakers:
- Dr Vandana Shiva, Navdanya/RFSTE, India
Keynote Address: Defending nature’s rights and people’s rights - Matthew Taylor, Chief Executive of the RSA
Chair - Professor Andrew Rigby, Centre for Peace and Reconciliation, Coventry University
Trees and movements for nonviolent change - Professor Shaul Cohen, Peace Studies Program, University of Oregon, USA
The Politics of Planting: The Palestinian-Israeli example - Dr Mark Johnston MBE, Myerscough College
and
Lia Shimada, University College London
Trees and the Troubles - James Brett, Pom354
Recreating self-sufficiency after the devastation of war and conflict: The case of the Afghan pomegranate - Dr Carol Rank, Centre for Peace and Reconciliation, Coventry University
African Peace Trees - Dr Marwan Darweish, Centre for Peace and Reconciliation, Coventry University
Trees and the peace process: symbols of social and economic control in Palestine
Orchards for Peace and Prosperity
This conference launches Orchards for Peace and Prosperity, an international initiative connecting people and communities around the world to conserve and create traditional orchards wherever they may be – in countryside, city, desert or war zone.
* Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA)
The Treework Environmental Practice seminar series is designed
to introduce various perspectives & practices about which a
need for information has been expressed by UK practitioners,
sometimes because developments have taken place mainly overseas.
The seminar series aims to:
- explore innovative & interdisciplinary approaches to the understanding of tree health, structure and condition
- introduce developments from beyond the UK affecting the field of arboriculture
- improve understanding of modern arboricultural science to better inform tree management practice
The Arboricultural Association and the Institute of Chartered Foresters make the following comment about CPD and the Treework Environmental Practice Seminar Series: Continuing Professional Development is a requirement of professionals and is compulsory for some grades of Arboricultural Association and Institute of Chartered Foresters membership as well as for membership of other organisations. Whilst it is up to the individual delegate to assess the worth of the training in relation to their own personal development, it is reasonable to allocate 6 or 7 hours CPD per seminar day attendance in the Treework Environmental Practice Seminar Series.