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Conference Programme

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Monday 5 September

Morning session

Theme: Urban Tree Management

Session Chair: de Gourét Litchfield (SWE)

Keynote: Martin Kelly (UK)

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

Henrik Sjoman (SWE)

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

Francisco Escobedo (COL)

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

Andrew Koeser (US)

How Green Are Trees? A carbon footprint assessment of urban trees and their care

May Carter (AUS)

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

Afternoon session

Paul Ries (US)

Update on ISA

Theme: Tree Health

Session Chair: Jon Banks (UK)

Charles Lane (UK)

Inspiring the next generation for plant health scientists

Neville Fay (UK) and

Lucio Montecchio (IT)

Developing a partnership model for tree health and resilience: the example of canker stain of plane

Ana Perez-Sierra (UK)

Observatree – An early warning system for tree health

Peter Thomas (UK)

Is ash doomed in Britain?

Tuesday 6 September

Morning session

Theme: Planning and Development

Session Chair: Baroness Kate Parminter (UK)

Keynote: Merrick Denton Thompson (UK)

Collaboration, planning and management in the landscape

Andrew Grant (UK)

Creative collaboration

Nick Grayson (UK)

Introducing UN Habitat III and the New Urban Agenda

David Davidson (UK)

Raymond Unwin and the Landscape of Hampstead Garden Suburb; Origins and Management

Jon Kiely (UK)

Impact Assessment in arboricultural: an opportunity for development

Tony Mulhall (UK)

Place making and value

Afternoon session

Theme: Natural Capital and Infrastructure

Session Chair: Robert Huxford (UK)

Tony Williams (IRE)

Tree planting adjacent to utilities and tramway infrastructure

Neil Strong, Network Rail (UK)

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

Christoph Brintrup (UK)

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

Stephen O’Malley (UK)

Poetry In Urban Infrastructure

Tony Sangwine, Highways Agency (UK)

Managing the highways estate

Wednesday 7 September

Morning session

Theme: Arboricultural Practice

Session Chair: David Dowson (UK)

Keynote: Paul Ries (US)

The changing face of arboricultural education – a global perspective

Brian Crane (UK)

Life and Death - Sheffield’s highway tree removal programme

Lynne Boddy (UK)

Invasion of wood in standing trees

Dealga O’Callaghan (UK)

A review of the TPO system

Jason Miesbauer (US)

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

Afternoon session

Theme: Tree Risk Management

Session Chair: Stephanie Hall (UK)

Andrew Koeser (US)

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

Henry Kuppen (NL)

Ash dieback control based on tree risk management

David Evans (UK)

Tree risk: Safety in numbers and words

Steve Turnbull (UK)

Tree risk management at Windsor

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