This presentation will provide an overview of green areas within urban and peri-urban areas and will touch on their functions and benefits. It will explore the extent of our current green areas, their distribution, underlying environment, soil and vegetation, as well as the overall quality and sustainability of these spaces. It will critically examine the environmental and anthropogenic pressures on urban green areas and their vegetation. Furthermore, the presentation will delve into how we plan, design, and establish green spaces and who is managing and looking after them.
Expanding on the notion of envisioning green, treed and liveable cities, opportunities, strategic spatial planning, and management of green areas will be discussed. The existing challenges and roadblocks in establishing and managing a robust system of green space will be emphasized. The topics covered will be illustrated with examples from Canada, Ontario and other parts of the world.
Danijela is an Assistant professor at the Daniels Faculty, University of Toronto. She holds a B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Forestry (Univ. of Belgrade, Serbia) and a Ph.D. from the University of Toronto.
Her work and research provide real-world solutions and tools that support strategic conservation, restoration, and integrated spatial planning of natural areas in urban and peri-urban landscapes. Her research also includes vegetation monitoring, spatial analysis, and predictive modelling and mapping of the present, past, and future vegetation and plant species distributions. Danijela also leads research related to strategic, multi-purpose forest monitoring and community-based forest stewardship based on the Vegetation Sampling Protocol and Neighbourwoods© protocols.
She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in Urban Forest Conservation, Green Infrastructure, Landscape Ecology and GIS. She also collaborates with diverse community groups, NGOs, and different levels of government and is a member of the Canadian Urban Forest Network (CUFN) Steering Committee. Before academia, as part of the Ontario government, she worked in applied science and research related to the natural heritage system design, spatial restoration planning, conservation planning, and monitoring of settled landscapes.
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