The rise of urban greening is an opportunity to recast the relationship between people and environment. Humans and non-human species are ecologically intertwined as inhabitants of cities.
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Not only do healthy, well-maintained trees provide shade and benefit the ecosystem, they can have a meaningful social impact: people in newly greened neighbourhoods start to look out for each other.
Green infrastructure can be delivered relatively easily using existing planning processes. The main obstacle could be psychological: planners are wary of disruption to embedded practices.
Achieving green cities will require more than just canopy cover targets and central city strategies. It will need new approaches to urban planning and development.
It seems like a ‘no brainer’ to use urban greening to help cities adapt to increasing heat, but the uptake of green infrastructure, such as trees and vegetated roofs, surfaces and walls, is slow. Why?
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Professor of Human Geography and Planning, University of Tasmania
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Senior Lecturer in Urban and Environmental Planning, Griffith University
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Professor of Urban Health and Environment, UNSW
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Professor of Cities and Planetary Health, ARC Future Fellow in nature-based solutions for loneliness, University of Sydney
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Senior Lecturer, Department of Architecture, Federal University of Technology, Akure
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Professor, Urban Ecology and Biodiversity, The University of Melbourne; RMIT University
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Senior Lecturer, School of Agriculture, Food and Ecosystem Sciences, The University of Melbourne
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Research Fellow, Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University
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Vice-Chancellor's Research Fellow, Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, The University of Queensland
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Professor of International Planning, Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University
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Distinguished Professor, Director of Smart Green Cities, Macquarie University
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Professor, School of the Built Environment, University of Technology Sydney
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Lecturer, Australian Urban Design Research Centre, The University of Western Australia
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Associate Professor in Urban Ecology and Urban Horticulture, The University of Melbourne