Andy Kenney is a Senior Lecturer teaching courses in urban forestry, agroforestry and tropical forestry. Andy is also coordinator of the Faculty’s Master of Forest Conservation program. Andy’s professional activities are primarily focused on forestry issues in the inhabited landscape, or urban and peri-urban forests. Erik Jorgensen (1970) from the University of Toronto wrote that urban forestry in Canada, "does not deal directly with city trees or with single tree management. It should deal with tree management in the entire area that is influenced and utilized by the urban population as well as the areas lying between these service areas and politically designated urban areas. The politically established boundaries for municipalities rarely include the entire geographical area influenced by urbanization". In 2001, 80% of Canadians lived in urban areas, or centres with minimum population concentrations of 1,000, and a population density of at least 400 per square kilometer, (Statistics Canada 1996). The urban forest is the day-to-day interface between these Canadians and their natural environment. This forest provides many environmental, economic and social benefits to these people but it is only relatively recently that these benefits have begun to be recognized. Situated at the centre of Canada’s largest conurbation, the Faculty of Forestry is ideally situated for research in the fields of Urban and Community Forestry. Andy is currently investigating the relationship between urban design and urban forest structure. He is particularly interested in strategic planning in urban forestry and the involvement of stakeholder groups in the management of this important natural resource. Course Coordinator: FOR201 Conservation and Management of Tropical and Subtropical Forests
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