The tree population of Swedish cities – development and challenges during the past five years

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Portrait of Johan Östberg, Trädkontoret.

The webinar series on urban forests, arranged by SLU Urban Futures and Future Forests, starts the spring webinars with a presentation by Johan Östberg from Trädkontoret.

The presentation will show the result from SLU’s large survey regarding municipal management of greenspaces and trees that was carried out in 2016 and 2021. The presentation will display trends, challenges and possibilities for the tree population and how this connects to the industry’s development and the latest research.

SLU’s large survey regarding municipal management of greenspaces and trees carried out in 2021, PDF (in Swedish)

SLU’s large survey regarding municipal management of greenspaces and trees carried out in 2016, PDF (in Swedish)

The presentation is primarily aimed at municipal administrators and will be held in Swedish.

Biography

Johan Östberg is an associate professor in landscape architecture with direction toward landscape planning. He is a co-owner of Trädkontoret AB och works mostly with project management and assessment of trees.

Facts

Time: 2023-03-23 12:00 - 13:00
City: Ortsberoende
Organiser: SLU Urban Futures and SLU Future Forests
Additional info:

Language

Swedish

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

April 5 - A more diversy forestry with Helena Dehlin from the Swedish Forest Agency.
May 5 - Green & Blue Infrastructure for Urban Health and Well-Being
with Jing Ma, Associate Senior Lecturer at Luleå University of Technology.

Recorded webinars

See the recorded presentations from previous webinars here.

Organisers

SLU 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.

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