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The Greening section of the Adelaide Design Manual outlines the principles associated with greening the city streets and the approaches such as Living Architecture, Green Streets, Water Sensitive Urban Design, Urban Forests and Urban Food which contribute to the city’s environmental and lifestyle benefits such as shelter and cooling.

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The guide provides small garden designs and planting ideas to help make it easy to implement the Planning and Design Code’s mandatory tree planting and soft landscaping requirements for new homes and major renovations in metropolitan Adelaide. It aims to inspire people who are building new homes or extensions to add more greenery and improve the liveability of Adelaide’s neighbourhoods.

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A long term, area-based planning approach to biodiversity conservation is rolling out across Victoria. It is designed to strengthen alignment, engagement and participation between government, Traditional Owners, non-government agencies (NGOs) and the community. Here you will find fact sheets, an interactive statewide map, and FAQs.

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This guide provides proven plant palettes for flourishing Australian green roofs. Based on over 15-years’ of research and plant trials at the University of Melbourne’s Burnley campus, the guide outlines plant combinations that can be used on a range of different green roof types to maximise the benefits of urban greening.

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The Strategic Management Prospects (SMP) tool was developed to give Victoria a long-term, strategic approach to identifying cost-effective management actions that deliver an improved outlook for as many species as possible. Strategic Management Prospects integrates and simultaneously compares information on biodiversity values, threats, and effectiveness of management actions and indicative costs of management actions for biodiversity across Victoria. Strategic Management Prospects is one tool that will help inform metropolitan habitat connectivity and corridor mapping and modelling.

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This “How-to” guide for climate ready street tree trials provides an easy-to-follow, step-by-step plan to designing and implementing a scientifically rigorous trial of street tree species in an urban context.

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This document has been developed through collaboration between SA Government departments and the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects (SA Chapter). It provides a strong framework for community members, landscape professionals, urban planning professionals, local Councils and regional authorities to protect and enhance quality green spaces in recognition of the health, wellbeing and environmental benefits they provide.

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The efforts to increase tree canopy in Adelaide have been hindered by inefficiencies with long-term planning for planting trees and collaborating with the multiple interests to find underground space to plant trees. This report provides insight into the broader issues and finds opportunities relating to city and urban green infrastructure development within the context of utility services and planning regulations.

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No one is immune to growing, brokering, selling or purchasing and installing into the landscape container induced root defects. ‘Don’t Buy It Don’t Plant It’ is a journey into realisation of the highs and lows of establishing treescapes today. It also gently highlights that AS2303 does nothing as a desk document or when quoted in speech or written specifications, it requires a commitment to getting your hands dirty and forming relationships with all allied stakeholders involved, in order to deliver fast establishing and ultimately successful treescapes.

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This guide provides a step-by-step process for organisations and community groups to plan, establish and monitor Climate Future Plots, and to establish a network of climate-resilient plant communities. What's a Climate Future Plot? Climate Future Plots are areas of revegetated and restored land which incorporate genetic and/or species diversity to enhance habitat resilience to the uncertain and unpredictable effects of climate change. By including and monitoring the success of a mixture of local and climate pre-adapted plant genotypes (such as seed from hotter and drier climates) the plots aim to enhance the resilience of natural landscapes to the changing climate and to actively inform future restoration and biodiversity conservation management. In partnership with Department of Environment, Land, Water & Planning.

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Green Factor is a green infrastructure assessment tool designed by City of Melbourne and developed to help with designing and constructing new buildings that are environmentally friendly and include green infrastructure.

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The Greener Neighbourhoods guide aims to support councils to develop or update strategic plans to enhance urban tree canopy. This guide is for local governments across NSW who want to establish, build upon or re-envisage strategic planning for their urban forests. It gives guidance on how to understand, plan for, monitor and manage urban forests and promotes best practice and consistency in urban forest planning.

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