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Urban Forestry – management of urban forests and trees

A city without forests and trees is an unsustainable city! Therefore we need Urban forestry i.e. the art, science and technology of managing trees and forest resources in and around urban community ecosystems for the ecological, sociological, economic, and aesthetic benefits trees provide society. The course integrates the fields of landscape architecture, forestry and ecology – all in an urban and peri-urban context - through collaboration between the department of Landscape Architecture, Planning & Management and the Southern Swedish Forest Research Centre. The course provides students with knowledge and skills for multiple-use planning and management of the urban tree resource, emphasizing social, cultural, economic and ecological perspectives. Focus is on urban wooded areas but many links to the other parts of cities’ tree populations (such as park and street trees) are also included. The course offers theoretical and practical knowledge on how to link environmental aesthetics, socio-cultural values and biodiversity through design, planning and management of the urban forest. Lectures are combined with excursions, seminars and exercises – and in all of these the different backgrounds of both students and teachers are seen as an educational asset. A main real-life case-study runs throughout the whole course. The main case-study will train students in how to develop and communicate a multiple-use management plan for an urban woodland park.

Information from the course leader

Welcome to the Urban Forestry Course

If you have not already registered for the course please remember to do so in Ladok, also if you do not plan to take the course, please register that in Ladok as well.

The course combines on campus teaching (including its surroundings) and digital teaching. For an overview see the schedule on the homepage. The main platform for information and communication during the course is Canvas.

If you miss access to Canvas or the Zoom classroom after your registration in Ladok or have any other questions in regard to the course please contact Björn on bjorn.wistrom@slu.se

Looking forward to meeting you and an intresting course

Björn Wiström and Magnus Löf

Course evaluation

The course evaluation is now closed

LK0378-20016 - Course evaluation report

Once the evaluation is closed, the course coordinator and student representative have 1 month to draft their comments. The comments will be published in the evaluation report.

Additional course evaluations for LK0378

Academic year 2023/2024

Urban Forestry – management of urban forests and trees (LK0378-20045)

2023-10-31 - 2024-01-14

Academic year 2022/2023

Urban Forestry – management of urban forests and trees (LK0378-20010)

2022-11-01 - 2023-01-15

Academic year 2020/2021

Urban Forestry – management of urban forests and trees (LK0378-20063)

2020-11-02 - 2021-01-17

Syllabus and other information

Grading criteria

https://slunik.slu.se/kursfiler/LK0378/20016.2122/GradingCriteria2021_UF.pdf

Course facts

The course is offered as an independent course: Yes The course is offered as a programme course: Landscape Architecture Programme, Alnarp Euroforester - Master's Programme Tuition fee: Tuition fee only for non-EU/EEA/Switzerland citizens: 74982 SEK Cycle: Master’s level (A1N)
Subject: Forest Science Landscape Architecture Landscape Architecture Forest science
Course code: LK0378 Application code: SLU-20016 Location: Alnarp Distance course: No Language: English Responsible department: Department of Landscape Architecture, Planning and Management Pace: 100%