Conference programme
The conference programme will consist of invited keynote presentations and contributed sessions and posters demonstrating the state of the art in theory and application of urban forestry. Field trips will complement the daily presentations to show how theory is implemented into practical solutions and to present the participants the most interesting locations in the host city. An exercise session will elicit international interdisciplinary expertise to find solutions to local problems.
The social programme includes an informal welcome reception after Tuesday registration and dinner on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday at distinguished locations in Leipzig serving you with regional and/or international cuisine.
On Saturday, 12 May, an optional excursion will demonstrate the achievements of the last two decades to transform a devastated landscape in a viable and attractive recreational landscape. Here we will show urban forestry projects of the Green Ring Leipzig and the green and blue landscape of Neuseenland.
Preliminary Programme:
The conference programme is subject to change. Details and additional information on the conference and programme will be continually updated.
Conference Guide:
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conference guide (3.1 MB) with program, abstracts and other useful information. You will find a printed copy of this document in the conference bag.
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conference guide (3.1 MB) with program, abstracts and other useful information. You will find a printed copy of this document in the conference bag.Tuesday 8 May: Registration and welcome reception
Location: Leipziger KUBUS
18:00 – 20:00 Registration
19:00 – 21:00 Welcome reception (light buffet and drinks)
Wednesday 9 May: Conference Day 1
Location: City Hall Leipzig
08:00 – 09:40 Registration and welcome coffee / tea
09:40 – 10:00 Welcome address
- Heiko Rosenthal; Vice Mayor and Deputy Mayor for Environment, Public Order and Sports of the City of Leipzig
- Klaus Henle; UFZ, Head of the Department Conservation Biology
- Cecil C. Konijnendijk; Coordinator of the European Forum on Urban Forestry
10:00 – 10:45 Keynote I "Urban Forests and Ecosystem Services"
- Ecosystem Services of Urban Nature
Beate Jessel; President of the German Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (BfN), Germany
10:45 – 12:15 Plenary Session Ia "Urban Forests and Ecosystem Services"
- The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity in Germany – The Natural Capital or TEEB Germany
Bernd Hansjürgens
The TEEB-approach in urban forests of North Rhine-Westphalia – Findings from a feasibility study
Christoph Aicher, Uta Berghöfer - Benefits of urban parks – systematic review of evidence
Cecil C. Konijnendijk, Matilda Annerstedt, Sreetheran Maruthaveeran, Anders Busse Nielsen - Planning for new green infrastructure to support ecosystem services and well-being in urban regions
Raffaele Lafortezza, Clive Davies (presenter), Giovanni Sanesi, Cecil C. Konijnendijk
12:15 – 13:15 Lunch
13:15 – 14:00 Plenary Session Ib "Sustainable Maintenance – The Leipzig Case"
- Leipzig’s green and blue infrastructure: Tasks and challenges for quality of urban living
Inge Kunath; Head of the Dept. Urban Green and Water Courses of the City of Leipzig - Urban Forests as an Innovative Open Space Strategy for Shrinking Cities
Regina Dietrich, Dieter Rink, Thomas Arndt
14:00 – 19:00 Boat trip and excursion in two groups
20:00 – 23:00 Welcome dinner: Ratskeller der Stadt Leipzig
Thursday 10 May: Conference Day 2
Location: Leiziger KUBUS
09:00 – 09:30 Keynote II "Urban Forests and Sustainable Maintenance"
- The City Forests of Leipzig and their Management
Andreas Sickert; Head of the Forest Department of the City of Leipzig
09:30 – 10:30 Plenary Session IIa "Urban Forests and Ecosystem Services"
- The Value of Being Selective
Sarah Low - Open Space Technology and the collaborative rehabilitation of derelict land to enhance the ecosystem services potential of peri-urban forests and waterways
Fabio Salbitano, Marialuisa Cipriani, Elena Farne, Claudia Morri - The case study of an urban forest carbon credit trading patent: creation, regulation and trade catalyst
Gerrit Hennie Stoffberg, Gerrit Hennie Stoffberg, M.W. van Rooyen
10:30 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 12:30 Parallel Sessions II
Session A: "Urban Forests Management in Urban Regions"
- Urban forest management in Helsinki meets the challenges of climate change, biodiversity and municipal politics
Tiina Saukkonen - Progressing Green Infrastructure in The Leeds City Region – The Nine Lakes Forest Park Project
Alan Simson - Urban Forests: Are they really so different? The comparative analysis of urban forests' potentials of six largest cities in Slovenia
Robert Hostnik - Adolescents’ preferred river landscapes for recreation depending on human impact and river dynamic
Arne Arnberger, Renate Eder
Session B: "Strategies and Management of Urban Green"
- Population health as an ecosystem service within the concept of urban forestry
Matilda Annerstedt - Better Understanding the Performances of Urban Green Spaces European Research on Green Spaces - Goals and Results
Carlos Smaniotto Costa - Do Street Trees Tendencies Represent Trends in the Overall Urban Forest?
Charles A. Wade, J. James Kielbaso - Managing the Urban Forest
Kenton Rogers
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch
13:30 – 14:15 Plenary Session IIb: "Urban Forests and River Restoration"
Moderation: Carlos Smaniotto Costa
- Introduction to the Project "Lebendige Luppe"
Project Team
14:15 – 19:00 Field exercise in the area "Burgaue"
19:00 – 22:00 Evaluation of exercise and dinner: Schlobachshof
22:00 – 23:00 Bus transfer from Schlobachshof to City Center and Hotels
Friday 11 May: Conference Day 3
Location: Leiziger KUBUS
09:00 – 09:30 Keynote III "Grounding Urban Forests Ecosystem Services"
- Green Technologies for the Development of Sustainable and Climate Resilient Cities
Marina Bergen Jensen; Professor at Danish Centre for Forest, Landscape and Planning, University of Copenhagen
09:30 – 10:30 Plenary Session IIIa "Urban Green and Trees Management"
- Another way? The park trust model in the UK
James McCulloch - The urban landscape below ground – can we grow trees „out of a box“?
Astrid Hamm - Urban forest on a rooftop: Exploring ecological and environmental functions
C.Y. Jim
10:00 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 12:30 Parallel Sessions III
Session C: "Urban Trees Management"
- Enhancing the capacity of trees to withstand stressful conditions: the effects of nursery pre-conditioning
Alessio Fini, Piero Frangi, G. Amoroso, Riccardo Piatti, Marco Faoro, Cecilia Brunetti, Martina Di Ferdinando, Massimiliano Tattini, Francesco Ferrini - Vegetation accumulates particulate matter and metals in urban areas.
Arne Sæbø, H.M. Hanslin, H. Gawronska, S. Gawronski - Management of Maksimir Urban Forest: Tree Risk Assessment Survey
Vinko Paulić, Milan Oršanić, Damir Drvodelić, Mario Šango - Advancing urban forest management: Site-specific growth curves for young urban trees
Max Piana, Blake Troxel, Mark Ashton, Colleen Murphy-Dunning
Session D: "Management and Reestablishment of Urban Forests"
- The Challenge of Urban Renewal within a Mature Inner City Forest - Creating a demonstration housing renewal project in central London
Chris Baines - Brownfield Regeneration to Greenspace: Opportunities for Social and Environmental Gain
Gail Atkinson, Kieron Doick, Kate Burningham, Chris France - Restoration of a Damaged Urban Forest Park: The Case of Point Pleasant Park, Halifax, Canada
Peter Duinker - Liverpool City Region Green Infrastructure Framework
Clare Olver
Session E: "Urban Forest Structure and Biodiversity"
- LIFE+ project EMoNFUr - Establishing a monitoring network to assess lowland forest and urban plantation in Lombardy and urban forest in Slovenia
Andrej Verlič, Enrico Calvo, Roberto Carovigno, Riccardo Gini, Benedetto Selleri, Primož Simončič, Giovanni Sanesi - Ecological effects of fire on biodiversity in periurban forests: a case study in Southern Italy
Mario Elia, Raffaele Lafortezza, Giuseppe Colangelo (presenter), Eustachio Tarasco, Giovanni Sanesi - Towards a large scale network of Urban Forests for ecosystem services in the heart of Mediterranean basin: the new strategy of the project “Urban Parks” in Sardinia, Italy
Marcello Airi, Antonio Casula, Fabio Salbitano - Effects of urbanization on the structure of plant communities in the urban forests of İstanbul
Serhun Sağlam, Raffaele Lafortezza
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch
13:30 – 14:15 Parallel Sessions IIIb
Session F: "Urban Forestry Strategies and Public Involvement"
- The Mersey Forest - 20 years of progress and a look to the future
Paul Nolan - Youth recreation participation in Oregon, USA: A comparison of urban and non-urban perceptions
Robert Burns
Session G: "Urban Forestry and Governance" - Municipal woodland in Denmark: resource, governance and management
Anders Busse Nielsen, Cecil C. Konijnendijk, Björn Wiström, Rasmus Bartholdy Jensen - Incorporating sustainable development and governance to the management and planning of urban green areas
Ramiro Flores-Xolocotzi, Noé Santacruz García (presenter)
Session H: "Open Space for Miscellaneous Meetings"
14:15 – 15:00 Plenary Session IIIb "EFUF 2012 and beyond"
- Award of Young Urban Forester of the Year 2012
Cecil Konijnendijk - EFUF 2013 – Milan, Italy
- EFUF 2014 – Lausanne, Switzerland
- EFUF 2012 Closing address
Clive Davies
15:00 – 18:00 Fieldtrips in 4 tours (max. 20 participants per tour)
- Tour 1: The "Green Promenadenring" - Germany’s oldest inner-city landscape park
- Tour 2: The "Green Arc" of Paunsdorf – a city urban nature safari
- Tour 3: New urban forests: "Stadtgärtnereiholz" - model area for an action research project
- Tour 4: Green places for remembrance: Leipzig’s South Cemetery & Etzoldsch’s Sand Pit
20:00 – 23:00 Dinner at KIWARA-Lodge of the Zoo Leipzig
Saturday 12 May: Excursion to Leipziger Neuseenland
| 09:00 – 09:45 | Bus transfer from Leipziger KUBUS to Leipziger Neuseenland |
| 09:45 – 10:15 | Viewpoint Neukieritzsch with vista into the open pit mining area TB Schleenhain |
| 10:15 – 12:00 | Bus transfer to Lake Bockwitz (170 ha) and visit to nature conservation activities |
| 12:00 – 13:00 | Bus transfer to Lake Markkleeberg (252 ha) and visit to the Kanupark am Markkleeberger See |
| 13:00 – 14:00 | Lunch at the “Wildwasser-Terrasse im Kanupark” |
| 14:00 – 15:00 | Bus transfer to Lake Zwenkau (914 ha) and visit to the harbour construction site at Cap Zwenkau |
| 15:00 – 16:30 | Bus transfer to Lake Cospuden (436 ha) and visit to the area around the look-out Bistumshöhe |
| 16:30 – 17:30 | Bus transfer to Leipzig Main Station and Leipziger KUBUS |
Poster Session
Posters will be displayed during conference day 2 and 3 in the Leipziger KUBUS and will be awarded:
- Sustainable Forestry Concept in The Gambia
Hatab Camara, Ebrima AK Sanneh - Distribution of Armillaria species along a purple beech (Fagus sylvatica L. atropunicea) tree line as an aid to management decision
Bruno Campanella, Sophie Schmitz, Valérie Decoux - Allelopathic Effect of Ailanthus altissima on seedling growth of Fraxinus chinensis and Robinia pseudocacia
Bing Cao, Lihua Song, Quanxiong Jiang - Incorporating Climate Change into Urban Tree-Species Selection: The Case of Halifax, Canada
Peter Duinker, Maliheh Rostami - Aggressive Urban Tree Planting for Carbon Sequestration: The Case of Burnside Industrial Park
Peter Duinker, Alison Walsh - Aesthetic Value of the Young Forest
Marina Golivets - Combining basic research, modeling and GIS techniques to maximize pollution mitigation by urban trees
Arianna Morani, David Nowak, Fabio Recanatesi, Carlo Calfapietra - Trend of Urban Development and its Impact on Urban Forestry (Case study: Rasht city, Iran)
Farid Kazem Nezhad, Maryam Kasalinia Moghadam, Farshad Yazdyan - MEDways: State of the art and a new networking strategy for Mediterranean Urban and Periurban Forests
Fabio Salbitano, G. Sanesi, C. Basnou, P. Carinanos Gonzales, J. Choumert, K. Gazoulit, S. Krajter, D. Pearlmutter, S. Sağlam, M. Sanchez, M. Santos-Reis, K. Tzoulas, A. Verlic - Satellite Monitoring of Vegetation Cover of Lal Bagh Botanical Gardein, India
Malini A Shetty, Somashekar R.K - Ljubljana's urban forest management for safe and quality recreational experience
Andrej Verlič, Nataša Đurić4, Milan Kobal, Lena Marion, Krištof Oštir, Primož Simončič, Janez Pirnat - Urban Forests and the Needs of Visitors: Case Study of the Park-Forest Košutnjak
Andrijana Vukadinović, Ivana Gudurić, Tomićević Jelena
