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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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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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The Cool it project used existing spatial data to determine urban areas of 9 Victorian regional and rural Councils that were socially vulnerable to heat impacts. The methodology objective was to pinpoint the intersection of Social Vulnerability, Pedestrian Intensity and Heat.

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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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A summary of some of the early research and scoping supporting the development of the urban greening strategy for metro Adelaide.

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The Department for Infrastructure and Transport has a significant role to play in achieving the canopy cover target for Metropolitan Adelaide, due to its significant property portfolio and its role in planning and delivering public infrastructure. As a lead agency, the Department has committed to identify and pursue feasible opportunities to expand green infrastructure (including water sensitive urban design) on public land, focusing on priority areas identified by Green Adelaide, corridors which provide for active travel, and new infrastructure projects.

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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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Queensland Health has developed the shade tree planting guidance resources to support state agency, local councils, developers and industry partners use an evidence informed approach to optimise shade provision and UVR protection along footpaths. The resources - including key messages, social media assets and content for EDMs - aim to optimise the planning and planting of street trees along footpaths to maximise shade provision and protection from UV exposure.

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This report shines a spotlight on community engagement, education and behaviour change programs to support councils and other practitioners in making informed decisions about delivering, adopting and expanding their urban greening programs.

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