Seminars
TREEWORK ENVIRONMENTAL PRACTICE
Seminar XVI
AVENUES, ALLEYWAYS AND BOULEVARDS (PART 1)
Management for the 21st century
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Jodrell Laboratory Lecture Theatre, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
24th June 2010
£220 plus VAT per person. Download programme
Tree-lined routes are human imprints on the landscape. Over the centuries, these corridors have become living architectural features. Today avenues have additional roles, including mitigating the effects of cars and offering protection from climate change. The modern challenge is how to continue their historic legacy and create new avenues in order to secure this essential green infrastructure for future generations.
This conference has urban and rural relevance, appealing to specialists and non-specialists with interests in landscape and the importance and care of trees. It will explore conservation, psychological and sociological perspectives, including the utilitarian, historic, biodiversity and aesthetic considerations that inform policy and practice.
Delegates are invited to contribute to the debate by bringing key concerns and suggestions for policy and management in challenging economic and climatic times.
Speakers:
- Neville Fay, Treework Environmental Practice
Introduction and Welcome - Tony Kirkham, Head of the Arboretum and Horticultural Services, Kew
Avenues at Kew: celebrating the legacy, meeting the challenge - Chantal Pradines, Expert of the Council of Europe
Avenues in mainland Europe - Ray Hawes, Head of Forestry, The National Trust
A journey down some avenues: Around 800 National Trust avenues, each an individual - Peter Thurman, Consultant, The Thurman Consultancy
Avenues as landscape features: Interpreting their design and managing their future - Vikki Bengtsson, Pro Natura, Sweden
Avenues and natural features: Lifecycles, perpetuity and habitat continuity - Brian Crane, Consultant, Brian G Crane and Associates
Avenues as arboricultural features: Culture, definitions, patterns and management - Peter Neal, Head of public space, strategy and design, Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE) Grey to Green: Shifting funding and skills to green our cities
- Clive Mayhew, Consultant, The Mayhew Consultancy
Disappearing avenues: Living features in a changing landscape - Eugene Dreyer, Urban Design Director, Terry Farrell and Partners
Urban tree-lined corridors: Master planning protected routes for liveable cities - Sue James, Convenor, Trees and Design Action Group (TDAG)
The power of collaboration to influence policy: Coordinated solutions through professional cooperation - Val Kirby, Natural England, Head of Landscape and Geodiversity
Avenues, Infrastructure and Connectively: The wider contribution of trees to townscapes and liveability
- Martin Kelly, Chair, Trees and Design Action Group
The art of the possible: An urban case study for street tree planting
In Association with:
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.