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Conference 2016 presentations

Below we have many presentations from the AA’s 50th National Amenity Conference – Planning for the Future. All the presentations below have been supplied by kind permission of the speakers from the Conference. We ask that all the content is kept as the sole copyright of it’ owner, and if you wish to use any content therein you contact the owner to gain written consent.

We will endeavour to make as many presentations available as we can, so in due course additional presentations may become available.

Monday Presentations

Jago Keen

Introduction from outgoing AA Chairman: Jago Keen

KEYNOTE: Martin Kelly

The Trees and Design Action Group: Past, Present and Future

Dr Henrik Sjöman

Improving urban resilience through tree selection – new findings in the search of the right tree for the right site situation

Professor Francisco Escobedo

Lesson learned: Applying i-Tree for research management and education in different parts of the world

Dr Andrew Koeser

How green are trees? A carbon footprint assessment of urban trees and their care

Dr May Carter

To tree or not to tree: The challenge of growing a forest in an urban setting

Mr Paul Ries

Update on ISA

Dr Charles Lane

Inspiring the next generation of plant health scientists

Mr Neville Fay

Developing a partnership model for tree disease resillience: The example of canker stain of plane

Professor Lucio Montecchio

Developing a partnership model for tree disease resilience: The example of canker stain of plane

Dr Ana Perez-Sierra

Observatree – An early warning system for tree health

Dr Peter Thomas

Is ash doomed in Britain?

Tuesday Presentations

KEYNOTE: Merrick Denton-Thompson

Collaboration, planning and management in the landscape
(Verbal presentation only)

Mr Andrew Grant

Creative collaboration

Mr Nick Grayson

Introducing UN Habitat II and the New Urban Agenda

Mr David Davidson

Raymond Unwin and the landscape of Hampstead Garden Suburb: origins and management

Mr Jon Kiely

Impact assessment in arboriculture: an opportunity for development

Mr Tony Mulhall

Placemaking and value

Mr Tony Williams

Tree management as part of the design and construction infrastructure

Dr Neil Strong

Balancing urban tree management for natural capital and safe operation of the railway

Mr Chrsitoph Brintrup

HS2’s landscape design approach to high speed travel in the UK

Mr Stephen O’Malley

Poetry in urban infrastructure

Mr Tony Sangwine OBE

Managing the highways estate

Wednesday Presentations

KEYNOTE: Mr Paul Ries

The changing face of arboricultural education – a global perspective

Mr Brian Crane

Life and death – Sheffield’s highway tree removal programme

Professor Lynne Boddy

Invasion of wood in standing trees

Dr Dealga O’Callaghan

A review of the TPO system – creation, application and what can go wrong

Dr Jason Miesbauer

Targeted pruning of branches that lack collars: How pruning cut angle and location affect wound closure and dysfunctional wood attenuation

Dr Andrew Koeser

Assessment of likelihood of failure using limited visual, basic and advanced assessment techniques

Mr Henry Kuppen

Ash dieback control based on tree risk management

Mr David Evans

Tree risk: Safety in numbers and words