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The Trees and Design Action Group (TDAG) is a world first
TDAG brings together a pioneering group of individuals, professionals and organisations from wide ranging disciples in both the public and private sectors to increase awareness of the role of trees in the built environment.
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SAVE THE DATE: Trees, People and the Built Environment II University of Birmingham, 2-3 April 2014. 
Following a successful 2011 first edition, the urban tree research conference will once again be hosted by the Institute of Chartered Foresters as its National Conference in 2014. Organised as a partnership initiative between 20 organisations the conference brings together professionals panning the greenspace and built environment sectors. It will take place in the Elgar Concert Hall, a superb custom-built auditorium at the heart of the University of Birmingham’s new Bramall Music Building. Keynote speakers include Sir Terry Farrell CBE, Professors Timothy Beatly and Herbert Girardet as well as television and radio writer and presenter Clive Anderson.
More details at: http://www.charteredforesters.org/conference2014
Download your copy here (it's free!)
Has your local authority endorsed Trees in the Townscape, a Guide for Decision Makers?
Trees in the Townscape, a Guide for Decision Makers, TDAG's new publication, was launched on June 26 2012 at the Royal Geographical Society with an enthusiastic address by the Rt. Hon. Norman Baker MP, Parliamentary Undersecretary of State for Transport (watch his video below!).

This new guide offers 12 principles of best practice for all those involved in local decision making to ensure that our 21st century towns and cities are underpinned by a 21st century approach to urban trees, for maximum economic, social and environmental returns.

On launch day, the 12 principles of best practice promoted in the guide had already received 12 endorsements from local authority councillors, local businesses or community organisations and social landlords as well as from government agencies such as the Forestry Commission! See our press release for more details on the launch.

Watch Rt. Hon. Norman Baker MP's address on the importance of urban trees


What do we do?
“The aim of urban forestry is to improve the welfare of urban residents; the planting and care of trees is a means to that end, not an end in itself.”
Dr. Mark Johnston (1985) Community Forestry: a sociological approach to urban forestry, Arboricultural Journal 9, 121-126