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Risk and the arborist in the remaking of the Australian urban forest

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posted on 2023-05-17, 23:57 authored by Aidan DavisonAidan Davison, James Kirkpatrick
The emerging profession of arboriculture has influenced Australian urban landscapes over the past decade. Arborists manage the urban forest as a core component of urban sustainability. We analyse qualitative interviews with 53 professionals involved in tree management in six eastern Australian cities to determine the ways in which a concern with risk management has shaped both the urban forest and the professional status and role of arborists.We found tree-related risk has, in part, worked against urban greening by reducing tree size. However, an emerging risk culture has encouraged the development of the profession of arboriculture, which, in turn, has pioneered sophisticated ways, familiar to neither engineers nor ecologists, of ensuring the cohabitation of people and trees.

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Australian Research Council

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Publication title

Geographical Research

Volume

52

Pagination

115-122

ISSN

1745-5863

Department/School

School of Geography, Planning and Spatial Sciences

Publisher

Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Asia

Place of publication

Australia

Rights statement

Copyright 2014 Institute of Australian Geographers

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  • Restricted

Socio-economic Objectives

Other environmental management not elsewhere classified

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