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The AILA (Victoria) Environment Committee invites you to the next event in its series exploring vegetation selection for a changing climate. 

As we experience increasing temperatures and frequent climatic anomalies, do we need to start shifting our mindsets when we design to restore landscapes? How do we resolve tensions between restoring landscapes to pre-white settlement conditions and the reality of shifting climate zones that might no longer support the plant communities of 1788? What of urban landscapes as we strive to establish resilience and maximise biodiversity?  Registration essential.

Session Overview & Presenters

This online webinar will explore these questions, drawing on the presenters’ expertise in bushfire ecology and forest restoration, indigenous plant establishment, and selection of replacement species for commercialisation. Philosophical and practical issues of plant selection will be addressed. 

Event duration – 1hr welcome, introductions and presentations + 15 mins Q&A

PRESENTERS:

Tom Fairman, Fellow  - Research Fellow & Academic Convenor - Wildfire Futures Research Initiative

Tom Fairman is a forester who works in forest and fire ecology at the School of Ecosystem & Forest Sciences at The University of Melbourne. He completed his PhD in forest ecology in 2019, focusing on the impact of short-interval, severe wildfires on temperate eucalypt forests. He has previously undertaken research on the carbon dynamics of native forests and the ecosystem services of urban forests. His main research interests relate to the role of fire in native forests, with a focus on shifting fire regimes, the consequences this has for forest health, and the options that are available land managers to plan and adapt their forests now and in the future.

Jeff Beavis, Ecodynamics - Nursery Manager 

Jeff Beavis is the Nursery Manager at Ecodynamics Nursery and has been growing plants for over 30 years.  On his current role, Jeff is specifying and growing plants for highly modified urban environments such as roadsides and storm water wetlands.  These landscapes perform specific aesthetic or treatment functions and are constructed on highly modified urban environments.  To successfully establish long lived landscapes, Jeff chooses from a variety of plant palettes to build functional species lists.  In his talk will reflect on this approach and how we can apply it to urban landscapes in future as we respond to the pressures of development and a rapidly changing climate. 

John Fitzgibbon, Metro Trees - Director

To drill down on five new climate ready selections suitable for the built environment.

Event MC: Brendon Burke, Senior Landscape Architect - Boroondara City Council

Brendon Burke has a multi-disciplinary background in Landscape Architecture, Arboriculture and urban Planning. He is a registered member of the AILA and an active member of the AILA Victorian Environment Committee and National Climate Positive Design Taskforce.   

Event hosted by: AILA Vic Environment Committee Member, Brendon Burke

Please note: The zoom event details will be shared with registered attendees on the morning of the event.

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