Adrina C. Bardekjian, MFC, PhD
Lived Experience, Essential Narratives, Part 2: A Tree Model for Integrating Social Dimensions into Urban Forestry
As published in City Trees magazine, November/December issue. Modified excerpt from the author’s PhD dissertation, Learning from Limbwalkers: Arborists’ Stories in Southern Ontario’s Urban Forests (Bardekjian, 2015). Human connections and experiences with trees have inspired creative interpretations and visual representations of our…
Lived Experience, Essential Narratives, Part 1: How Stories from Urban Foresters and Arborists Can Inform Our Field at Large
As published in City Trees magazine, September/October issue. Modified excerpt from the author’s PhD dissertation, Learning from Limbwalkers: Arborists’ Stories in Southern Ontario’s Urban Forests (Bardekjian, 2015). My background is rooted in English literature, creative writing, anthropology, and forest conservation. Throughout my…
Considering Diversity, Social Inclusion, and Equity through Urban Forest Collaborations
At Tree Canada we do more than plant trees. A tree alone does not build a community simply by its presence; however, a community can be built around a tree when people are mobilized and engaged in various ways, and on multiple…
Where Women Choose to Walk: Paths to Improving Cities and Nature
“Boy, I’m sure glad I’m not your husband.” I remember my mind racing over the last few minutes of the discussion at an event I was leading, and thinking about what, if anything, I had said or done, to warrant such an…
Beyond Trees: Engagement and Research at Tree Canada
To commemorate my last day before starting my maternity leave, I wanted to follow up on my article from May 2018, Over the Years We Grow: National Scale Progress in Engagement and Research at Tree Canada. Over the past year, we have accomplished several…
Over the Years We Grow: National Scale Progress in Engagement and Research at Tree Canada
Adrina C. Bardekjian, MFC, PhD Originally posted on The Nature of Cities: https://www.thenatureofcities.com/2018/05/08/years-grow-national-scale-progress-engagement-research-tree-canada/ Over the past four years in leading the Engagement and Research portfolio at Tree Canada, I have had the opportunity to watch the organization grow, contribute to designing programs…
Research in urban forestry: Identified needs in Canada
As part of my work with Tree Canada in directing the Canadian Urban Forest Strategy (CUFS), our current efforts under the Research Working Group (WG3) include developing partnerships with national organizations on a variety of projects to tackle urban forestry questions. Tree…
Research in Urban Forestry: Collaborative Learning
Last May, I had the opportunity to visit Halifax, NS, for the Canadian Association of Geographers conference to present my doctoral work as well as discuss the Canadian Urban Forest Strategy and the activities of our a Research Working Group. Led by…
Positive Change: The Future Is Looking Bright for the Canadian Urban Forest Network
Our goals for the CUFN (Canadian Urban Forest Network) and CUFS (Canadian Urban Forestry Strategy) are to foster greater learning, both nationally and internationally, provide a space for people to come together and build a national urban forestry community. Thanks to the generous support…
Research in urban forestry: The social side of things
Urban forestry research has been generally classified in two categories: the biophysical and applied areas, and the social science side of things. The biophysical and applied aspects include threats and diseases such as Dutch elm disease, emerald ash borer, ecosystem services (benefits…