Attend the 15th European Forum on Urban Forestry Conference!
Leipzig, Germany, May 8 – 12, 2012
Urban Forests – Ecosystem Services and Sustainable Maintenance
Conference aim
The conference will focus on “Urban Forests – Ecosystem Services and Sustainable Maintenance”, a topic that will highlight the crucial role played by urban forests in delivering essential ecosystem services for people in urban landscapes, especially in relation to the problem of how to maintain new large-scale urban forests and urban green spaces with declining public sector budgets. This is a problem that is more and more abundant in cities with industries and societies in transformation.
Conference topics
- 0. Ecosystem services and sustainable maintenance
- 1. Urban forestry and green space management under societal and climate change conditions (includes forests, parks, gardens, and street trees)
- 2. Management of old urban forests, parks and cemeteries
- 3. Planting new forests in urban areas
- 4. New strategies for large scale urban green space management
- 5. Revitalization of ecosystem services on floodplains, derelict land and traffic corridors, military areas, etc.
- 6. Response strategies to new demands of providing healthy living and working conditions
- 7. Revitalization and management of urban waterways to improve urban forest health
Conference Programme
The conference programme is still subject to change. Details and additional information on the programme will be continually updated. The current status is listed on the 
conference programme page.
Conference hosts and venue
Hosts of the conference are the Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research – UFZ, Department of Conservation Biology and the 
City of Leipzig, Office for Urban Green and Water Courses. The City of Leipzig will host the conference day on Wednesday, May 9th in the City Hall and the UFZ will host the conference days on Thursday, May 10th and Friday, May 11th in the Leipziger Kubus..F&U Confirm is responsible for the conference secretary.
Kindly supported by IUFRO – The Global Network for Forest Science Cooperation
