Understanding Contested Human-Plant Geographies for Urban Greening Success

Volume and the urban forest: The vegetal politics of urban forestry contestations in Melbourne and Darwin, Australia

ER Straughan, C Phillips, J Atchison

2026-11-01

In this paper we take inspiration from geographies of volume to consider the drivers effecting tree canopy expansion in two Austra..

The Unsettling Outdoors: Environmental Estrangement in Everyday Life, by Russell Hitchings. London: Wiley, RGS-IBG Book Series 2021 176 pp., $51.95 paperback (ISBN: 978-1-119-54915-4); $124.95 hardback (ISBN: 978-1-119-54912-3)

Raksha Pande, Jennifer M Atchison, David Bissell, Cecily Maller, Gordon Walker, Russell Hitchings

2024-03-15

Gratitude for and to nature: insights from emails to urban trees

C Phillips, E Straughan, J Atchison

2024-01-01

Gratitude goes to the heart of discussions about ethics, care, and responsibility in a more-than-human world. Surprisingly, gratit..

The power of lament: Reckoning with loss in an urban forest

C Phillips, J Atchison, E Straughan

2023-12-01

This paper explores the lamenting for a street tree to better understand reactions to ecological loss. It responds to calls for so..

Finding comfort and conviviality with urban trees

E Straughan, C Phillips, J Atchison

2023-10-01

This paper develops cultural geographic understandings of more-than-human comfort and conviviality by analysing emails sent to tre..