Meet the Working Group 3
Stewardship: building cross-sectoral and inclusive management partnerships
Maximize the ecosystem services offered by urban trees, by matching regulating and producing services with socioeconomic and cultural services (as assessed by the UFI).
WG3 will seek for internalizing processes that involve public value prioritization, people engagement in management or decision-making, and citizen stewardship, which lead to increase not merely the participatory aspect of urban forestry management but also ensure urban tree survival.
Effective stewardship should include different communication levels: one-way communication (e.g. capacity building, educational materials and guidelines), two-way dialogue between involved stakeholders, and active community involvement like collaborative decision-making processes, citizen science, foster parenting, guarding etc.
Meet the WG3 Leaders
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Leader WG3Claudia Menendezclaudia.mc@arbocity.comArbocity Asociation
Spain
Key Tasks and Objectives
Task 1
Identify common challenges in effective communication between all stakeholders involved in urban forestry.
Task Leaders
Lazar Pavlović | University of Novi Sad – Serbia
Gerd Lupp | Technical University of Munich – Germany
Ana Macias | Universidad Rey Juan Carlos – Spain
Task 2
Propose an effective framework for adopting active public participation in urban forestry governance and how to put it into practice.
Task Leaders
Barbara Darr | Hochschule Weihenstephan – Germany
Naomi Zürcher | Arbor Aegis – United States (US)
Silvija Krajter Ostoić | Croatian Forest Research Institute – Croatia
Task 3
Task Leaders
Selim Bayraktar | İstanbul University-Cerrahpaşa – Türkiye
Naomi Zürcher | Arbor Aegis – United States (US)
Ieva Misiüne | Vilnius University – Lithuania
Task 4
Task Leaders
Philip Chambers | University of Eastern Finland – Finland
Ana Macías | Universidad Rey Juan Carlos – Spain
Claire Narraway | Earthwatch EU – UK