Increasing Cities, Decreasing Green Areas – Challenge to Urban Green Professionals

Dear Colleagues,

The European Forum on Urban Forestry (EFUF) will arrange a conference themed as “Increasing Cities, Decreasing Green Areas—Challenge to Urban Green Professionals”. The population in urban areas keeps on increasing. With expanding built infrastructure, can forests, trees and other green infrastructure continue to prove a multitude of ecosystem services?

The conference has three main topic areas:

• Planning of urban forests and other green infrastructure 
• Participation in the planning of urban forests and other green spaces
• Management of urban forests and other green spaces

The three topics areas aim at to answer several principal questions that examine issues on how to maintain the provision multitude of services of urban forests and other green infrastructure to a diversity of citizens.

Research shows that urban forests and green infrastructure provide citizens with important cultural services by offering restorative, stress-alleviating experiences and enhancing health. How can we reserve and sustain enough urban forests and green areas for people? 

Urban populations are continuously diversifying—how can we make sure that, in the planning process, citizen input is received broadly and it is impartial, unbiased, fair, equitable and objective?

Ecological conditions for functioning urban forests and other green infrastructure are changing due to local and global factors. What are practical methods to maintain ecological connections to sustain biodiversity in urban green areas and forests? How can we mitigate and adapt to climate change in urban forests and green environments?

More information at: https://www.efuf2018.com/registration-abstract-submission

The conference will be arranged in Helsinki and Vantaa, Finland, May 15 – 20, 2018

Prof. Dr. Pasi Puttonen
Prof. Dr. Clive Davies
Prof. Dr. Alan Simson
Guest Editors

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