Prof Peter Kanowski ‘Reviving the Arboretum Dream: the making of the National Arboretum Canberra’

The National Arboretum Canberra was more than 100 years in the making; a large arboretum was envisaged as part of Canberra’s design from the outset. Peter Kanowski will reflect on how that longstanding idea finally took shape, and the shape it took.

Biography 
Prof Peter Kanowski is Professor of Forestry at the ANU Fenner School of Environment and Society. He works on forest governance issues internationally, nationally and locally.

Peter is an ANU forestry graduate who completed his DPhil at Oxford University’s Forestry Institute, and was a lecturer there, before returning ANU as Chair of Forestry in 1995. He took leave from ANU to be Deputy Director General of the Center for International Forestry Research 2012 – 14, and has also been Master of University House at ANU since 2014. Peter’s academic work currently focuses on international forest governance (with the University of Freiburg), tree plantations and smallholder tree growing (with The Forests Dialogue and ACIAR), and urban forests (with ACT, ANU and Singapore colleagues).

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