L. Anders Sandberg is Professor and former Associate Dean in the Faculty of Environmental Studies at York University, Toronto, Canada. His two most recent books are The Oak Ridges Moraine Battles: Development, Sprawl and Nature Conservation in the Toronto Region (2013) and Urban Explorations: Environmental Histories of the Toronto Region (2013).
Adrina Bardekjian is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Environmental Studies at York University, Toronto, Canada, where she studies under-represented narratives and strategic visioning for urban forestry praxis. She is an urban forestry researcher, writer and educator, and works with a number of organizations on a diversity of projects and initiatives.
Sadia Butt is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Forestry at the University of Toronto, Canada. She has worked in urban forestry for the last 15 years as a practitioner, reseracher and volunteer in raising urban forest awareness through environmental education.
1. Introduction L. Anders Sandberg, Adrina Bardekjian, and Sadia Butt Part 1: Human Agency in Urban Forests and Greenspace 2. Urban Forests are Social Natures: Markets, Race, Class, and Gender in Relation to (Un)just Urban Environments Harold Perkins 3. From Government to Governance: Contribution to the Political Ecology of Urban Forestry Cecil C. Konijnendijk van den Bosch 4. A Genealogy of Urban Forest Discourse in Flanders, Belgium Ann Van Herzele 5. Institutions, Law, and the Political Ecology of Urban Forestry: A Comparative Approach Blake Hudson 6. Manufacturing Green Consensus: Urban Green Governance in Singapore Natalie Gulsrud and Can Seng Ooi 7. The Places of Trees in Honduras: Contributions of Public Spaces and Smallholders Joby Bass Part 2: Arboreal and Greenspace Agency in the Urban Landscape 8. (Urban) Places of Trees: Affective Embodiment, Identity and Materiality Owain Jones 9. Order and Disorder in the Urban Forest: A Foucauldian-Latourian Perspective Irus Braverman 10. High and Low, West and East: Four Arboricultures of the Tokyo Metropolis Jay Bolthouse 11. The Unruly Tree: Stories from the Archives Joanna Dean 12. Seeking Citizenship: The Norway Maple in Canada Brendon Larson 13. Queering the Urban Forest: The Ecological Ethics and Politics of Arboreal Entanglement Darren Patrick 14. The Thin End of the Green Wedge: Berlin's Planned and Unplanned Urban Landscapes Cynthia Hammond Part 3: Actions and Interventions in the Urban Forest 15. "A Few Trees" in Gezi Park: Resisting the Spatial Politics of Neoliberalism in Turkey Bengi Akbulut 16. Constructing New York City's Urban Forest: The Politics and Governance of the MillionTreesNYC Campaign Lindsay Campbell 17. Promoting Green Space in Cape Town, South Africa: The Role of the African Centre for Cities Pippin Anderson 18. Cultivating Citizen Stewards: Lessons from Formal and Non-formal Educators Greg Smith 19. Learning and Acting through Participatory Landscape Planning: The Case of the Bräkne River Valley, Sweden Helena Mellqvist and Roland Gustavsson 20. A Step, A Stitch, A Sense of Self: Woods Walking as an Artist's Path to Creating Identity Kathleen Vaughan
This book brings a perspective of political ecology to the complexities of urban trees and forests through three themes: human agency in urban forests and greenspace; arboreal and greenspace agency in the urban landscape; and actions and interventions in the urban forest.