Lecture #7 | Dagmar HAASE | "Urban trees and urban forests to mitigate climate change in cities: Solution or challenge? A story of conflicting insights"
The presentation will introduce the recent challenge of climate change impacts, namely heat and drought and subsequently pests, that impact our urban green infrastructure, in particular trees. Results from a broad literature analysis, data from own empirical field studies as well as from planting experiments will shed light on state and future of urban trees and forests foreseen to mitigate heat, noise and air pollution in cities. Moreover, the role of urban land management and urban forestry on the one hand and active citizens as well as forms of local stewartship on the other will be illuminated. The presentation wll not deliver a receipt how future urban treescapes will look like but attempts to trigger thinking about different alternatives, conflicting insights and opportunities of an informed discourse.
Part of the 2022/23 StadsSalonsUrbains lecture series 'moving cities forward, leaving no one behind. toward fair & sustainable transitions'. Full programme available here.
Please note that the lecture exceptionally will not be streamed!
Dagmar's research career grounds on studies on urbanization linked to the concepts of urban ecosystem services (UES), green infrastructure and nature-based solutions. She is the first author of one of the first and highly cited research papers on UES from 2014. Urban densification processes and patters but also urban shrinkage and their role for and in social-ecological systems, the integrated study of physical, institutional, and perceptual filters for the realisation of UES is another core research field. Dagmar is co-author of the introductory paper on Social-Ecological-Technological Systems (SETs) and in recent projects she is going for an application of this concept together with an international team. Dagmar's work bases on large European data samples and data sets but she is also actively working in case studies. Her focus is on quantitative and qualitative studies supported by remote sensing and the development of Apps to involve a broader public and link science and citizens. Dagmar has an h-index of 77 and over 250 scientific publications (journal papers and book chapters). Several awards based on and given for the above listed research activities, i.e., the AXA Science Award in 2014, the Wallenberg Honorary Professorship in 2016 and the Honorary Professorship of the University of Bucharest in 2022.