Learning Outcomes

This course introduces concepts and skills through lectures, self-guided field trips, exercises, case studies, and assignments. Students are introduced to key aspects of the theory and practice of urban forestry and to essential practical skills such as arboriculture, basic planning and design, resource planning, and community involvement.

By the end of this course students should be able to:

• Read with intent as a method to efficiently synthesize and summarize information.
• Explain and give examples of the role and benefits of trees and green-space in cities.
• Articulate questions necessary to understand complex urban environments and relationships between urban vegetation, urban trees, and people, at various scales.
• Gather and use information during virtual site visits and field trips for use in projects and assignments.
• Describe key aspects and characteristics of urban forestry in the Asia-Pacific region, and its state-of-art.
• Identify and describe the various players involved in urban forest governance, planning and management.
• Evaluate the merits and disadvantages of a site-specific urban forest management plan, design/build project, tree planting program or ecological restoration initiative.