Putting Melbourne’s Green Plans into Practice

Dr Claire Farrell took part in a lively panel discussion on urban greening as part of an MPavilion event “Living Melbourne: A Practitioner’s Toolkit to Improve Urban Biodiversity” (Feb 2020). Claire’s co-presenters were Dr Nick Somes (Ecodynamics) and Emma Pryse (Greening the Pipeline). Claire spoke about how the Woody Meadow project could improve urban greening in low maintenance landscapes, especially along roadsides and railway sidings.

Living Melbourne: our metropolitan urban forest is a plan developed by Resilient Melbourne in partnership with The Nature Conservancy (TNC) and endorsed by 41 Victorian organisations representing local government, Victorian government, water authorities, statutory agencies and industry. The strategy details actions for a greener, more liveable Melbourne and presents a transformative approach to respond to urban challenges with nature.

The work of Claire and colleagues in the Green Infrastructure Research Group forms part of the evidence base that will help inform the effective implementation of this important strategy.
Claire is working with a number of local governments on the Woody Meadow project with support from the Australian Research Council. Find out more about the Woody Meadow project here or contact c.farrell@unimelb.edu.au.

Links
https://mpavilion.org/program/living-melbourne-a-practitioners-toolkit-to-improve-urban-biodiversity/
https://resilientmelbourne.com.au/living-melbourne/