Length
50 minutes
Audience
Technical
Type
General
This presentation will outline current research on how urban forestry can contribute to making cities more livable, ecologically beneficial, and better able to withstand the challenges of the “Anthropocene”—our new era in which humans are the dominant force impacting planet Earth, causing urbanization, population growth, pollution, and climate change.
Speaker(s)
Jess Vogt, Assistant Professor, DePaul University
Fun Fact: Jess spent August 2018 as a Visiting Foreign Expert in the College of Forestry at Henan Agricultural University in central China.