Urban Forestry and Green Infrastructure – a historic perspective

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The webinar series on urban forests, arranged by SLU Urban Futures and Future Forests, continues with a presentation by Anders Lindhagen from the Department of Forest Economics at SLU.

Anders Lindhagen (PhD) is Director of First and Second Cycle Education at the department of Forest Economics. His research is on Urban Forestry. Anders will give us a historic perspective of the research done in Sweden for 20-30 years ago on Urban forestry and Urban Green Infrastructure and what we have learned and can learn from this.

Facts

Time: 2022-10-20 15:00 - 16:00
City: Zoom
Organiser: SLU Urban Futures and SLU Future Forests
Additional info:

Language: English

About this webinar

The webinar series on Urban Forests is arranged by SLU Urban Futures and SLU Future Forests to shed light on various aspects and opportunities for research on forests in urban environments.

The webinar will be recorded. If you don't want to be identified, please turn your camera off and remove your name from your window.
Please have your microphone off (when not participating).

Upcoming webinars in the series

This event is the first of three webinars in the series on urban forests in the autumn of 2022. The next webinar is:

15 November
Adaptive governance of urban green spaces across Latin America – Insights amid COVID-19
with Dr. Martinez Cruz from the Department of Forest Economics, SLU
8 December
Future analysis of the management of urban forests
with Torgny Lind, researcher at the Department of Forest Resource Management, SLU

Recorded webinars

See the recorded presentations from previous webinars here.

Organisers

Future Forests
Future Forests is a platform for multidisciplinary forest research, collaboration and research communication, driven by SLU, Umeå University and the Forestry Research Institute of Sweden.

SLU Urban Futures
Among the four SLU Future Platforms SLU Urban Futures has the mission to strengthen sustainable urban development. The platform aims to identify knowledge needs and strives to develop new research questions addressing the challenges of an urbanising planet.