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Optimizing Trees and Forests for Healthy Cities: Developing Guidelines for Decision and Policy Makers

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Year of publication 2014

Pages 42 p.

Author Borelli, S.;Gauthier, M.;Dabas, M.

Product type Meeting

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) Since January 2011, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has been spearheading the initiative for the production of “Guidelines for Policy and Decision Making: Promoting Urban and Peri-­‐urban Forestry”. These guidelines are being prepared at the global and regional levels through a consultative process. The primary audiences for this document are policy and decision makers holding an authority positions and a strategic influence in city administration, civil society , business or politics. As a first step in the guidelines development process, and in order to deliberate upon regional issues and challenges relevant to UPF, FAO invited experts from various parts of the Asia-­‐Pacific region to New Delhi (India). Coming from different disciplines and having different professional backgrounds, these experts represented a wide cross section of key influencers in UPF policy and decision making. Apart from generating useful insights and inputs for the “Guidelines for Policy and Decision Making: Promoting Urban and Peri-­‐urban Forestry”, the meeting also paved the way for a sustained and structured dialogue on UPF in the Asia-­‐Pacific region. It is hoped that the dialogue initiated by FAO at New Delhi will result in the emergence of new networks and institutional collaborations that will help urban and peri-­‐urban forests and trees achieve their potential and ensure healthy and sustainable urban habitats across the Asia-­‐Pacific region. The meeting wa s held within the framework of the International Congress on Urban Green Spaces (5–7 March 2012), co-­‐organized by the Center for Urban Green Spaces (CUGS), Aravali Foundation for Education (AFE), New Delhi (India), and the Department of Environment, Government of National Capital Territory (NCT) of Delhi, in association with the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF), Government of India. The main objective of this meeting was to invite delegates to give their inputs on the regional draft version of the document “Towards Guidelines for Policy and Decision making: Promoting Urban and Peri-­‐urban Forestry”, in order to support its finalization. The meeting also aimed to achieve a better understanding of the overall institutional, policy and networking framework on UPF; to develop strategic advice to raise the profile of forests and trees on the national, regional and global urban agendas; and to define strategic opportunities for implementing adaptable and efficient UPF programmes in the Asia-­‐Pacific region.

Meeting Session Number Sess. 1

Language English

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