Other policy initiatives
Trees and Design Action Group - Championing the value of large trees in the urban environment
The environmental, economic and social benefits of trees are well documented. Members of the Landscape Institute routinely work to ensure that trees form an integral part of the urban landscape and public realm. However, the valuable contribution made by large-growing trees in particular is often compromised or precluded by negative perceptions relating to maintenance, nuisance or safety and associated costs.
The Landscape Institute is a member of the Trees and Design Action Group (TDAG) - a multi-disciplinary group of individual professionals and organisations from both the private and public sectors who have come together under The London Tree and Woodland Framework to collaborate in achieving an increased awareness of the role of trees in the built environment.
More information can be found here.
European Landscape Convention
The European Landscape Convention seeks to promote landscape protection, management and planning across Europe and to organise European wide co-operation on landscape issues.
The ELC recognises that at a European government level there is a need for landscape to become a mainstream political concern. There is a desire to achieve greater unity between Member States for the purpose of safeguarding the quality and diversity of landscapes through better policies and activities.
The Convention seeks a democratic approach, with citizens taking an active role in the decision making process and moving away from the perception that ‘landscape’ is an exclusive field monopolised by specialist scientific and technical bodies.
More information can be found here.
