EFUF2023 Programme

Plenary session (Chair: Bianca Bärlocher)

• Urban green areas maintenance standards developed for Polish cities and the IT system for managing the urban greenery resource in Wrocław
• Green space appropriation – ecopauperization as a parallel to ecogentrification
• The 3-30-300 rule in practice – international experiences

• Monika Pec-Święcicka & Łukasz Pawlik 
• Jakub Kronenberg, , Edyta Łaszkiewicz, Erik Andersson & Magdalena Biernacka
• Cecil Konijnendijk & Johan Ostberg

Plenary session (Chair: Clive Davies)

• Public perceptions and preferences for urban forests in China and Europe 
• Application of the MINECRAFT computer game to involve children and youth in the participatory management of urban forests, their planning, and popularisation 
• The challenge of transforming our urban areas into green urban areas: Forestami, a case study.

• Rik De Vreese & Zhang Chang
• Agnieszka Arabas, Tomasz Bergie & Paul Mahony
• Maria Chiara Pastore, Daniela Gambino, Claudia Ida Parenti

Poster/lightning talks, Congress hall (Chair: Andreas Bernasconi)

Planning urban forests as nature-based solutions 

• Jovanovic, Maja; Tripkovic, Dejan – Plan of general regulation of the system of green areas in Belgrade.
• Kempf, Piotr; Szwałko, Przemysław; Wnęk, Dariusz – Afforestation in the city in the long-term policies of the Krakow authorities.

People, ecosystem services and values

• Antenucci, Eduardo; Marchetti, Marco; Garfì, Vittorio – Urban forests and ecosystem services: air pollutant removal capacity in Campobasso, Italy.
• Arnberger, Arne; Eder, Renate – Visitor perception of recreation conflicts in the UNESCO Vienna Wood Biosphere Reserve.
• Hegetschweiler, Tessa; Wunderli, Jean-Marc; Fischer, Christoph; et al. – Multisensory dimensions of forest attractiveness.
• Kičić, Martina; Haase, Dagmar; Scheuer, Sebastian; et al. – Diversity of urban green infrastructure provides cultural ecosystem services and disservices – results of a PPGIS study in Zagreb, Croatia.
• Rahman, Irvanu; Grunwald, Armin; Saha, Somidh – Exploring the potential of participatory spatial-system dynamics modeling in assessing the importance of cultural ecosystem services from the urban forest for resilience planning in Jakarta and Bandung, Indonesia.
• Zoderer, Brenda Maria – Profiles of (non-)users of urban forests and urban wastelands.
• Russo, Alessio; Goodenough, Alice; Sheppard, Adam; Cheshire, David; Cirella, Giuseppe T.; Escobedo, Francisco J. – Urban rewilding aesthetics & people’s needs into multifunctional blue and green infrastructure design.
• Beckmann-Wübbelt, Angela; Addo-Danso, Shalom Daniel; et al. – Quantifying ecosystem services from urban forests and their importance in increasing social-ecological resilience in Greater Kumasi, Ghana.
• Trentanovi, Giovanni; Bartoletti, Roberta; Zinzani, Andrea; et al. – New opportunities for urban regeneration by spontaneous woodlands: a socio-ecological assessment from Italy.
• Viskanic, Paolo; Antonacci, Gianluca; Fini, Alessio; et al. – The engagement of citizens in the management of urban forests: the LIFE URBANGREEN experience in Krakow.

Managing urban forests and urban trees as nature-based solutions

• Tucker, Alana – High and inclusive standards of urban forestry.
• Caggiu, Laura; Corradini, Elisa; Fiorani, Federico; Minelli, Alberto – Urban tree management: a theoretical framework for prioritization of tree monitoring and intervention activities through a spatial analysis of risk exposure.
• Menon, Nicola; Brundu, Giuseppe; Kotze, D. Johan; et al. – Italian monumental trees and biodiversity: a focus on origin and landscape settings.

Modeling, measuring and inventorying urban trees and urban forests

• Sicard, Pierre; Coulibaly, Fatimatou; De Marco, Alessandra; Paoletti, Elena – Canopy-based classification of urban vegetation from very high-resolution satellite imagery.
• Guo, Yasong; Chen, Wendy Y. – Remote sensing of urban trees’ health dynamics.
• Janowska, Ewa – Climate tools based on local and Copernicus data in urban NBS implementation.
• Zięba-Kulawik, Karolina; Skoczylas, Konrad; Wężyk, Piotr; Omrani, Hichem – Exploring the volumetrics relationship between urban greening and build-up using a voxel-based approach: a city-level analysis.
• Saha, Somidh; Spoden, Lisa; Skiadaresis, Georgios; et al. – Tree-ring analysis and impulse tomography on old native (Quercus robur) and exotic (Quercus rubra) urban oaks revealed a growing sensitivity to drought and internal trunk damage.
• Saha, Somidh – Lessons learned from the GrüneLunge or GreenLung project to increase social-ecological resilience of urban and peri-urban forests (UPF) to climate change impacts by performing inter- and transdisciplinary research.

Trees, forests and water

• Gray, Howard – Application of blue-green infrastructure as nature-based solutions: practical examples from England, the Netherlands, and Wales.

Biotic management aspects in the urban forest

• Moricca, Salvatore; Aglietti, Chiara; Benigno, Alessandra – Management practices alter the endophytic mycobiota of an urban forest favouring pathogenic endophytes. 
• Muscas, Desirée; Fornaciari, Marco; Proietti, Chiara; et al. – Urban forest and climate change mitigation: most effective tree species in Perugia, Italy. 
• Saha, Somidh; Kramer, Diana; Betting, Ferdinand; Schmidtlein, Sebastian – Morphological, tree health, and ecophysiological variations among Norway maple (Acer platanoides L.) trees planted along strips and pits near roads in the city of Karlsruhe, Germany.
• Shamsul Kamar, Nura Adilla; Banyang, Attlee; Mohamad Ramlee, Zunnuraina Raihana; et al. – The study of the bleeding disease of rain tree (Albizia Saman) in the urban environment in Malaysia.
• Amer, Alaa; Hijazen, Amgad – Physiological response and ecosystem services of Tilia cordata, Robinia pseudoacacia and Acer platanoides along an urban-suburban transect.

Parallel session Number 1, Theme: Planning urban forests as nature-based solutions (Chair: Alan Simson)

• Vidal-Casanovas, Eugenia; Ilousi, Kyriaki – NBS for socio-ecological metropolitan river restoration: H2020 CLEARING HOUSE and LIFE UrbanGreeningPlans experiences in the Llobregat River.
• Athanassiadis, Dimitris – Urban forestscapes in the city of Umeå and their significance in the city’s sustainable growth and development.
• Atmiş, Erdoğan; Günşen, Hikmet Batuhan – The place of ecosystem services in urban and forest planning in Turkey.
• Gormus, Sevgi; Cengiz, Serhat; Atmis, Erdogan; Yilmaz, Bulent – Evaluation of the adaptability of Istanbul’s city plans.
• Baines, Chris – Delivery with developers – a 40 year perspective.

Parallel session Number 2, Theme: Human health and well-being aspects of urban green spaces (Chair: Renate Spaeth)

• Chen, Wendy Y. – Urban forests as a strategy for healthy cities.
• Giannico, Vincenzo; Sanesi, Giovanni – Disentangling the relationship between green spaces and citizens’ perceptions in Europe: the mediating effect of quality of life and role of per capita gross domestic product.
• Łaszkiewicz, Edyta; Sikorski, Piotr; Archiciński, Piotr; Parsa, Vahid et al. – Socio-spatial inequalities in the distribution of benefits from school greenery.
• Dijkstra, Lotte – Intersectional belonging: exploring senses of belonging for equitable access to urban forest places across communities.
• Stark da Silva, Priscila Weruska; Pauleit, Stephan – Achieving human thermal comfort via green infrastructure in a future climate. A comparative analysis of the cooling capacity of two most common tree species in Munich, Germany.
• Sousa-Silva, Rita; Zanocco, Chad – The role of urban green spaces in mitigating heat stress and promoting health: insights from a German survey.

Parallel session Number 3, Theme: Trees, forests and water (Chair: Jakub Kronenberg)

• Viskanic, Paolo; Antonacci, Gianluca; Fini, Alessio; et al. – Smart water management in urban forests: the approach of LIFE URBANGREEN.
• Amini Parsa, Vahid; Kronenberg, Jakub; Jabbarian Amiri, Bahman – The Importance of urban landscape texture for the hydrological ecosystem service provided by urban trees.
• Heinrich, Axel; Saluz, Andrea Gion; Hertig, Tal; Stevanovic, Stefan – Sponge city principle for sustainable urban tree growth: innovative substrate and vegetation systems in Zurich’s industrial district. 
• Stevanovic, Stefan; Hertig, Tal; Heinrich, Axel; et al. – Structurally stable substrates for sustainable green infrastructure and stormwater management: a field trial with urban trees in Wädenswil.
• Łągiewka, Monika; Bergier, Tomasz – The urban blue-green network as an important element of the management of ecosystem services: a case study of Krakow River Parks.
• Gray, Howard – Application of blue-green infrastructure as nature-based solutions: practical examples from England, the Netherlands, and Wales.

Parallel session Number 4, Theme: Biotic management aspects in the urban forest (Chair: Nerys Jones)

• Dimitrova, Anastazija – Exploring the distribution of non-native tree species in urban environments: insights from a pan-European database.
• Augustinus, Benno A.; Bełka, Marta; Kičić, Martina; et al. – The extraordinarily high species richness in European urban trees – implications for invasive forest pests.
• Lyu, Hailiang; Saha, Somidh – Species traits and growing conditions were related to crown dieback in community and city-owned peri-urban forests: a study from southwest Germany.
• Saha, Somidh; Petridis, Zoe; Schmidtlein, Sebastian; Köhler, Mario – Microhabitat richness and abundance varied between species origin (exotic vs. native), size, growing environment (park vs. street), and crown management intensity: a study on four species from the city of Karlsruhe, southwest Germany.
• Moricca, Salvatore; Benigno, Alessandra; Aglietti, Chiara; et al. – Impact of thousand cankers disease of walnut on the urban greenery and proactive management.
• Saha, Somidh; Schobert, Mia; Schmidtlein, Sebastian; Köhler, Mario – Crown damage of single-standing city trees after the catastrophic drought of 2018 – field observational studies on 79,753 trees from the city of Karlsruhe, Germany.

Option 1: Poster presentations

Option 2: Project idea seed session (speed dating – are you looking for a project partner?)

Option 3: Sharing urban forest stories: workshop on intersectional belonging in practice (limited to 24)

Option 4: Urban Forestry & Urban Greening Journal (meeting)

Parallel session Number 5, Theme: People, ecosystem services and values (Chair: Tessa Hegetschweiler)

• Pfund, Jean-Laurent; Konijnendijk, Cecil; Bernasconi, Andreas; Pellet, Jérôme – Urban greening dynamics in Switzerland: pathways to gather forces and knowledge.
• Hand, Kate; Wheeler, Philip; Maseyk, Kadmiel; Doick, Kieron – Growing the evidence base on the benefits of urban trees with citizen science.
• Mishra, Himansu Sekhar; Tyrväinen, Liisa – Mainstreaming the use of experiential information with PPGIS in monitoring urban forests as nature-based solutions.
• Krajter Ostoić, Silvija; Kičić, Martina; Vuletić, Dijana; Marin, Ana Marija – Use of focus group interviews for exploring and participatory mapping of cultural ecosystem services and disservices of urban green space – an example from the city of Zagreb, Croatia.
• Shaw, Roddy; Sheldon, Kate – Trees for Climate Action – engaging and upskilling youth in tackling the climate crisis. 
• Ffrench, Aidan – Participatory tree care in a new 10-year urban forestry strategy in Ireland. 

Parallel session Number 6, Theme: Managing urban forests and urban trees as nature-based solutions (Chair: Eugenia Vidal Casanovas)

• Woo, Holly; Wheeler, Philip; Davies, Sarah; Maseyk, Kadmiel – Changes in ancient woodland flora after rapid urbanisation of surrounding landscapes.
• Biernacka, Magdalena; Bergier, Tomasz; Kronenberg, Jakub; et al. – Complex challenges of integrated and interdisciplinary management of urban forests: a case study of the Drwinka River Park, Krakow.
• Armstrong, Andrea; Pulinx, Wim – Managing military urban forests: a case study of Kamp Beverlo, Leopoldsburg, Belgium.
• Bakay, Ladislav; Miklášová, Katarína; Kollár, Ján – Why do we need more urban trees established with close to nature management? (The method of the lazy urban forester).
• Darr, Barbara – How can a modern forest authority push forward sustainable urban forest management?
• Keller, Anja – Urban forest governance in Copenhagen in relation to contemporary urban greening concepts.

Parallel session Number 7, Theme: Modeling, measuring and inventorying urban trees and urban forests (Chair: Nery Jones)

• D’hont, Barbara; Calders, Kim; Verhelst, Tom; et al. – Evaluating tree structure and biomass of city parks using lasers: a case study in Ghent, Belgium.
• Voets, Dirk – How can we create large-scale country-wide single-entity tree databases for Europe?
• Wężyk, Piotr; Bobrowski, Rogerio; Winczek, Monika; Zięba-Kulawik, Karolina – Pocket-size LiDAR mobile solution in urban tree inventories.
• Semenzato, Paolo; Cattaneo, Dina; Dezio, Catherine; et al. – Dimension and determinants of urban canopy cover (UTC) in cities of north-eastern Italy.
• Kazik, Patrycja; Wężyk, Piotr; Winczek, Monika – Mapping the ecosystem services provided by campus trees of University of Agriculture in Krakow (Poland) using ALS LiDAR, ground truth data and i-Tree Eco.
• Kasperidus, Hans Dieter; Hartmann, Timo; Hecht, Christian; et al. – Forest growth modeling and 3D visualization: understanding development potentials in the urban forest ecosystems of the Elster-Luppe floodplain in Leipzig.

Parallel session Number 8, Theme: Biotic management aspects in the urban forest (Chair: Rita Sousa Silva) 

• Raum, Susanne; Pauleit, Stephan; Egerer, Monika – Urban tree pests and pathogens, stakeholder risk perceptions, and remedial actions. 
• Maxwell, Richard – How to make citizen science work for disease monitoring and urban tree care.
• Tikvić, Ivica; Pernar, Nikola; Hrašovec, Boris; et al. – Ecosystem-based solutions for urban tree revitalisation in Croatia.
• Kasperidus, Hans Dieter; Hüttner, Marie-Luise; Bartelt, Sandra; et al. – Status and role of urban fruit orchard meadows in major German cities.
• Mielczarek, Łukasz Emil; Pawlik, Łukasz; Szwałko, Przemysław – Increasing the ecosystem resilience by protecting biodiversity in Krakow.
• Wężyk, Piotr – Time-series satellite-based monitoring of Biologically Active Areas of Krakow.