Photo: Mattia Bericchia (Unsplash) An event to discuss the potential of urban forests for greener, healthier and more sustainable cities In face of the challenges brought by urbanisation and climate change, more and more experts are pointing to a simple yet extremely effective solution: nature. For this reason, cities across the world have started implementing urban …
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Background and guidelines to develop a local Urban Forestry Action Plan In recent years, there has been increasing interest about urban forestry as efficient nature-based approach to tackle many challenges connected to urbanisation and climate change. Faced with these challenges, cities need to build resilience through adaptation, mitigation and disaster risk reduction measures to keep …
Photo credit: Freepik A review of urban forestry’s potential for a healthier and more sustainable future Urbanisation is a global trend: according to the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA), today 55.5% of the world’s population lives in urban areas and this number is expected to increase to 68% by 2050. …
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Urban forests represent an innovative solution, but there are still few specific training opportunity on this subject. Uforest, the project co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Commission, was created to promote the development of new multidisciplinary training opportunities in urban forestry. Against this background, understanding the training needs of different stakeholders and the …
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This summer we asked all our colleagues, partners in the Uforest project, to send us a photo of the forests during their holidays. The result is the gallery on this page: vote to each photo and the best one will become the Uforest photo of the month. Polls are now closed and we are happy …
Share your opinion with us: Fill in the ‘Training needs and innovation in Urban Forestry’ survey by June 25thIf you are a researcher, student, member of the public administration or civil society, or professional working with the topics of urban forestry and urban planning, we would love to hear your opinion about the most important training needs to be …
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