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Urban Forests: full of Energy – 22-24 May 2019

European Forum on Urban Forestry

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  • The Conference
    • Audience
    • Themes
    • Programme
    • Excursions
    • Optional Excursion (Saturday 25 May 2019)
    • Registration
  • Sites
    • Waldlabor Köln
    • Cologne Outer Green Belt
  • Practical
    • Offset your flight and support the Third Forest for Cologne
    • Accommodation
    • Travel
    • Local Travel to the Conference venues
    • Map of venues and transport
    • Important dates
    • Points of (touristic) interests in Köln
  • Book of Abstracts
  • Presentations
    • Plenary presentations
      • The Cologne forest and green system – Historical development of the Green Belt
      • Landscape and forest laboratories
      • Linking urban outdoor recreation with health benefits on a city scale level – a first approach
      • Outcomes of and follow-up to the 1st World Forum on Urban Forestry
      • Introduction to Waldlabor
      • Urban Forestry Narratives in Europe
      • Co-creating nature-based solutions: An urban green equity perspective
    • Session 1.1. Healthy Forest – Sports and Forests
      • A campaign to encourage physical movement in a natural environment for 30 minutes a day during 30 days in Belgian Flanders
      • Austria and Switzerland: a comparative case study analysis to understand decision-making processes in innovations in the urban forestry sector – A mountain-bike trail study
      • Parkrun – a popular and energetic use for urban forests
      • Mountain biking on urban greenspace – evaluation of unauthorized trail technical features using geographic information systems (GIS)
      • Recreational Trail Networks for MTB and Shared Use as a Tool for Urban Forest Management
    • Session 1.2. Healthy Forest – Forests, Health and Well-being
      • Immersive Healing: Why Cities Should Incorporate Forest Therapy & Biophilic Design Into the Urban Fabric
      • Forest School impacts in northwest England, encouraging more natural play, increased physical activity and social interaction
      • Green Care FOREST
      • Spatial behaviour in urban woodlands: Linking landscape features to activities and sociodemographic characteristics of outdoor recreationists
      • Integrating physical forest characteristics into socio-cultural forest monitoring – a new approach
      • Nature connection in Brussels urban forests for human health and resilience
    • Session 2. Spiritual Forests
      • New light through old windows – promoting the spiritual aspects of urban forestry and its future role in delivering viable multi-cultural urbanism
      • Funeral Forests: Bridges between two worlds
      • The Spiritual Urban Forest – a journey of re-discovery
      • Connecting with traditional faith groups to contemporary urban forests
      • “Come take a walk with me” Exploring forests between timber production and sentience – a qualitative study on place perception of individuals
      • “Being nature” – historical, spiritual and political dimensions of a walk in the woods
    • Session 3.1. Learning Forest – Forest Laboratories
      • Waldlust – Urban forests as community hubs and experimental design spaces
      • Wald_interior, learning from forest behavior as a base for creative design procedures
      • Dynamic Tranquility: Woodland Park meets Airport Shopping Mall
      • Experimenting with adaptation and transformation in the Aarhus Landscape Laboratory
    • Session 3.2. Learning Forest – Environmental Education
      • About the effects of a near-residence industrial forest on towns-children in the first years of their life
      • Green Learning Environments – Toolbox with good practice examples for non-formal learning in the natural environment for children with special educational needs
      • Visiting urban forest as part of education program in Slovenian kindergartens
      • A ‘Citizen’s Coolkit’ on climate change and urban forestry – Canadian experience in engaging the silent majority on climate change and urban forestry issues at the micro-neighbourhood block scale
      • Environmental education and international networking at university level
      • Sustainable urban green management – a new further education programme in Switzerland
    • Session 4.1. Co-Designed Forest – Governance
      • Re-foresting “Forest City” – Portland, Maine: Co-Design + Innovation using Public Art and Community Partnerships
      • Promoting citizen engagement in green infrastructure and urban forestry – understanding and overcoming barriers in NRW
      • Building Bridges in Urbanplanen, new cultural practices between the young population and green spaces
      • Pluralities and Pines: An Exploration of Immigrant Integration in the Catalonian Forest Sector
      • Advocacy for Urban Forest
      • Governance of the urban forest in Melbourne, Australia: from local strategies to metropolitan policy
      • Bridges and barriers for Urban Green – A comparative case study of Vienna and Zurich
      • Creating an i-Tree Eco-based Urban Forest Management Toolbox: Turning i-Tree outputs into Climate-Adaptive outcomes, offering management strategies for growing the Swiss Urban Forest
      • Participatory integrated management of urban and peri-urban forests in the Danube region (URBforDAN project)
      • Comparing scientific and social perspective of urban forests’ Ecosystem Services – case study of Planty Park – the green heart of Krakow, Poland
      • Delta City Trees: Emerging Paradigms in Rhine Delta Cities and their Impact on the Research Agenda for Urban Forestry
    • Session 4.2. Co-Designed Forest – Management
      • Sampling method affects the applicability of i-Tree results for communicating the ecosystem services of planted and maintained urban trees
      • The role of cemetery management in maintaining the urban forest of Halifax, Canada
      • Making regulating ecosystem services visible – a GIS-based analysis of Cologne’s Urban Forests
      • LIFE URBANGREEN – an innovative technological platform to improve management of green areas for better climate adaptation
      • Woodlands spatial arrangement and different degree of urbanization (Lithuania case study)
      • Urban Trees, Property Prices and Associated Environmental-Economic Benefits – Dublin, Ireland
    • Session 4.3. Co-Designed Forest – Planning
      • Nature Based Planning model in the Barcelona metropolitan area
      • Wild woodlands across Italian cities: their potential role in urban regeneration
      • To each their own kind of WILD: the Gentbrugse Meersen, Ghent (Belgium)
      • Combining forest planning and ecosystem services provision: the experience of Monte Morello peri-urban forest (Italy)
      • Optimizing ecosystem services provision using suitable tree species and open space design
      • BaumAdapt: Optimization of eco-system services of urban forests in compliance with the resilience of critical infrastructures in regard to convective events and adaptation to climate change
      • The Landscape Green Network: a new deal for planning in Lombardy
    • Session 4.4. Outdoor Demonstration
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Session 2. Spiritual Forests

HomeSession 2. Spiritual Forests
  • New light through old windows – promoting the spiritual aspects of urban forestry and its future role in delivering viable multi-cultural urbanism
  • Funeral Forests: Bridges between two worlds
  • The Spiritual Urban Forest – a journey of re-discovery
  • Connecting with traditional faith groups to contemporary urban forests
  • “Come take a walk with me” Exploring forests between timber production and sentience – a qualitative study on place perception of individuals
  • “Being nature” – historical, spiritual and political dimensions of a walk in the woods

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Location

Venue

Deutsche SportHochschule Köln

EFUF 2019 is organised by

the European Forest Institute, the German Sport University Cologne, City of Cologne, RWTH Aachen University and the Ministry of Environment, Agriculture, Nature Protection and Consumer Protection.

About the EFUF

The European Forum on Urban Forestry (EFUF) is a unique meeting place for practitioners, policy-makers, managers and scientists who are active in urban forestry, urban greening and green infrastructure. Since 1997, the EFUF has met annually to discuss new developments, to exchange experiences, and to visit examples of good practices.

EFUF 2019 is supported by

the Ministry of Environment, Agriculture, Nature Protection and Consumer Protection of the State Nordrhein-Westfalen.

Toyota Deutschland

EFUF2019 is facilitated by the International Union of Forest Research Organisations (IUFRO).

Contact

rik . devreese @ efi . int

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