Forest Futures: Will the Forest Save Us All? | Panel 4: A Just Survival?

Planetary survival in the Anthropocene crucially depends on the stewardship of resilient forest ecosystems worldwide-at the scales of wilderness, planted forests, metropolitan tracts, and the urban forest canopy of cities and towns everywhere. The Fifth National Climate Assessment (US, 2023) repeats now familiar claims that healthy forests provide essential ecological, economic, and social benefits and services.
But our forests today face extreme risk. Disturbance agents are driving massive change-including unprecedented temperature increases, altered precipitation patterns, increasingly catastrophic weather events, uncontrollable mega-fires, and destructive land use practices. This symposium addresses risks and threats, initiatives and improved practices, and speculations on a more secure and more just future for metropolitan and urban forests and the species that inhabit them.
The symposium accompanies a concurrent gallery exhibition in the Druker Design Gallery, Gund Hall, entitled Forest Futures, curated by GSD Professor of Landscape Architecture Anita Berrizbeitia and the graduate students in her seminar, DES-3510 Forests: Histories and Future Narratives.
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Panel 4: A Just Survival?
Moderated by Gary Hilderbrand
Maria-Mercedes Jaramillo, Growing Forests in Bogotá: Resistance, Reconciliation, Resilience
Abby Spinak, What You Do to the Land, You Do to the People
Sonja Dümpelmann, From Breathing Space to Palliative: Urban Forests and Public Health in the Plantationocene
00:00 Panel 4 Introduction by Gary Hilderbrand
03:09 Presentation by Maria-Mercedes Jaramillo
22:06 Presentation by Abby Spinak
42:46 Presentation by Sonja Dümpelmann
01:02:12 Discussion and Q+A

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Impecable intervención de María Mercedes. Bravo!!