Urban Forests

Urban trees and forests contribute to making cities socio-economically and environmentally more sustainable. This is a transdisciplinary field where the two platforms SLU Urban Futures and Future Forests meet and collaborate to identify knowledge gaps and new research questions.

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Urban forests are ecosystems that include rich dynamics between trees and people at different scales ranging from a single tree in a private backyard, a row of street trees, to an entire woodland or region. The Urban Forests collaboration at SLU is aiming to create new encounters between different disciplines and sectors and to stimulate new research and collaboration in the field.

Why are urban forests important? SLU Future Forests SLU Urban Futures

What are urban forests?

Urban forests are in increasing focus these days as contributors to healthier, more resilient, and more attractive cities. But what do we mean with ‘urban forests’? This was the first topic when Cecil Konijnendijk, director at the Nature Based Solutions Institute, opened the Urban Forests webinar series in 2021.

Published: 08 November 2024 - Page editor: hanna.weiber.post@slu.se

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