Experience and expertise
These talks and other activities give a good impression of the experience and competence of our experts. See also the dedicated 3+30+300 website for a series of webinars and talks specifically about this rule:
- Greening our Cities: the 3:30:300 rule for urban harmony. Cecil’s talk at TEDx Varese, Varese, 2023.
- Introducing the 3-30-300 rule for urban forestry and healthier cities. Watch Cecil’s talk at a webinar hosted by the Arboricultural Association, 2021.
- Leadership in urban forestry and urban design. Podcast hosted by NBSI as part of the European Forum on Urban Forestry 2021.
- Urban forestry for health and wellbeing. Cecil’s contribution to the S.D Vaidya Memorial Lecture Series, Mumbai local chapter of the Indian Society of Landscape Architecture, 2021.
- Urban forests a nature-based solutions. Cecil is featured in an episode of the CNBC Sustainable Energy series, on urban forests as nature-based solutions, 2020
- How do we successfully green cities? Cecil’s talk on how to successfully green cities, at the Trees for Liveable Cities conference, Sydney, Australia, 2020
- A critical perspective on urban tree canopy targets. Cecil’s talk on urban tree canopy targets at the Amenity Conference of the UK Arboriculture Association, 2019
- Perspectives on greener cities and better green space governance. Cecil’s moderation of a panel discussion at the final GREEN SURGE conference in Malmö, Sweden, 2017
- Urban forests: a European perspective. Johan’s invited talk at University College Dublin, 2015.
- How do we create ‘sylvan cities’? Cecil’s keynote on ‘sylvan cities’ at the IUFRO World Congress 2014 in Salt Lake City, USA.
Our customers and partners have included, among other, Breekijzer (Belgium), BUUR part of Sweco (Belgium), the Department of Environment of the Flemish government, Department of Architecture, Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium), Province of Limburg (Belgium), Claerhout Communicatiehuis (Belgium), School of Landscape Architecture, Beijing Forestry University (China), Danske Park og Naturforvaltere (Denmark), Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management, University of Copenhagen (Denmark), the European Forest Institute (Finland), ERSAF and ETIFOR (Italy, for EU Erasmus+ project UFOREST), Academie van de Bouwkunst Amsterdam (Netherlands), Cobra Groeninzicht (Netherlands), Landscape Architecture at TU Delft (Netherlands), Felixx Landscape (Netherlands), IVN Natuureducatie (Netherlands), Municipality of Alphen aan den Rijn (Netherlands), Norminstituut Bomen (Netherlands), Pius Floris Boomverzorging and Advies, including for urban forest plans in Barneveld and Groningen (Netherlands), Rotterdamse Academie van Bouwkunst (Netherlands), Schipper Bosch (Netherlands), Stadswerk (Netherlands), Stichting Steenbreek (Netherlands), TFI Vitaler Groen (Netherlands), University of Applied Sciences Van Hall-Larenstein (Netherlands), Karachi community urban forest alliance (Pakistan), Institute for Spatial Policies (Slovenia), City of Malmo (Sweden), Dacapo Mariestad (Sweden), Stockholm Forest Cemetery administration (Sweden), the National Board of Housing, Building and Planning (Sweden) – for the Nordic Council of Ministers, Movium – Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (Sweden), City of Birmingham and Birmingham Tree People, Future Woodlands Scotland (UK), Trees for Cities (UK), the Woodland Trust (UK), Federal Department for the Environment (Switzerland), PlanIT Geo (USA), the Trella Group (USA), European COST Action Urban Tree Guard, the International Society of Arboriculture (and its different chapters) (USA), and the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (forest program).
We have a partnership with Treeconomics (UK) as well as with SYLVA: Atelier for Urban Forestry and Landscape Architecture (Netherlands). We are a partner in the Horizon Europe research projects eco2adapt and Resonate – and we contributed (on behalf of FAO) to the CONEXUS project. We also participated in the Erasmus+ Knowledge Alliance project Uforest. We were a partner in the Yggdrasil – The Living Nordic City project funded by the Nordic Council of Ministers and led by our colleagues at Trädkontoret. For COST Action Urban Tree Guard we organised a training school on nature-based solutions and biosecurity.
Our current projects focus, among other, on: development of urban forest strategies; assessing and integrating the health benefits of urban green and blue space; development of guidelines and standards for urban forestry; enhancing entrepreneurship in urban forestry; reviewing the benefits of urban trees; urban forest inventories; building forest resilience; developing and testing nature-based therapies; and conference organisation and facilitation.
NBSI supports the European Forum on Urban Forestry and is represented in its Board of Directors. We also co-host the Urban Tree Diversity conference, with its most recent, 5th edition having been held in Madrid, Spain. Together with Trella, we co-hosted the online conference ‘Reimagining Future Cities – The Green Way’ on March 22, 2021. The full recording of this event is available here.
