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Where’s the shade? Trees are not an immediate or whole answer to keeping cool. Cameron Tonkinwise

Keeping the city cool isn’t just about tree cover – it calls for a commons-based climate response

Abby Mellick Lopes, Western Sydney University and Cameron Tonkinwise, University of Technology Sydney

Trees and the shade they provide are one of the best ways of cooling cities. But they also present challenges that are best resolved by managing this shared resource as part of an urban commons.
Allowing residents to remove trees within three metres of buildings or ‘ancillary structures’ could dramatically alter the green infrastructure of dense inner Sydney suburbs like Rozelle. Tom Casey/Shutterstock

Trees can add $50,000 value to a Sydney house, so you might want to put down that chainsaw

Sara Wilkinson, University of Technology Sydney; Agnieszka Zalejska-Jonsson, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, and Sumita Ghosh, University of Technology Sydney

Greater urban density is making it harder to preserve, let alone increase, tree cover. It’s vital, then, to demonstrate the full value of green infrastructure for healthy liveable cities.
Australian cities could lose some of their most common trees to climate change. Jamen Percy/Shutterstock

Our cities need more trees, but some commonly planted ones won’t survive climate change

Alessandro Ossola, Macquarie University; Hugh Burley, Macquarie University; Leigh Staas, Macquarie University; Linda Beaumont, Macquarie University; Michelle Leishman, Macquarie University, and Rachael Gallagher, Macquarie University

Thirty tree species make up more than half of Australia’s urban forests. Some won’t survive climate change, so cities must plant a more diverse mix of the right species to preserve their tree cover.
Continued development of our cities is putting pressure on urban green spaces. AAP/David Crosling

Does higher-density city development leave urban forests out on a limb?

Joe Hurley, RMIT University; Ebadat Parmehr, RMIT University; Kath Phelan, RMIT University; Marco Amati, RMIT University, and Stephen Livesley, The University of Melbourne

Achieving green cities will require more than just canopy cover targets and central city strategies. It will need new approaches to urban planning and development.

Related Topics

  1. Cities
  2. Cities & Policy
  3. Climate change
  4. green cities
  5. Green spaces
  6. Trees
  7. Urban greening
  8. Urban green space
  9. Urban heat
  10. Urban trees

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