Bomenlanen: on the inextricable relation between trees and roads
Text AND EDITORIAL • ARCAM and BNA Onderzoek • January 2021
Headlines about citizens protesting against the felling of large numbers of trees along roads are frequent in the Netherlands. Although tree felling is often seen as a solution to increase road safety, trees and roads are inextricably linked. The book Tree Avenues. On the inseperable relationship between trees and roads addresses the various aspects of this relation: from cultural history, planting schemes, ecology, climatology, and developments in technical tree matters and road safety.
The book is a guideline for anyone who wants to understand the broad importance of treelined avenues and is a must for everyone who works with them. Multiple scientists, experts and policymakers who deal with tree avenues daily wrote the chapters. The aim is to contribute to the dialogue between the different stakeholders and protect tree-lined avenues. Not rigidly, but with knowledge, insight and creativity. In this time of climatic change, this is more important than ever.
Collaboration
The book is a cooperation between Delft University of Technology, collaborating with the Centre for Global Heritage and Development, and Bomenstichting (Dutch Tree Foundation). The book is edited by Gerdy Verschuure-Stuip, Lotte Dijkstra, Hanna Hirsch and Gerrit-Jan van Prooijen.
Digital copies of the (Dutch) publication are available upon request.