Dissertation Help!

[benjo3112]

Hi all

 

I'm currently in my final year of a degree in Arboriculture at Askham Bryan College, york, and am new to arb talk. I have decided to focus my final project on tree issues within urban shopping areas. This includes looking at survival rates, planting, social factors and maintenence issues.

 

Are there any relevent entries about this subject within the arb journals, newsletters or on the internet as I am struggling to find any previous research? Any pointers or hints would be extremely useful for my dissertation.

 

Cheers

[Paul Barton]

Hi and welcome to arbtalk.

 

Sounds like a good dissertation. I don't mean to rude, but shouldn't your tutor be guiding you towards these information sources?

 

When I read your title I thought you might be doing some primary research via questionnaires or something which would be cool. Asking other people how to start your research is less cool though - get in the library or in to the periodical archive!

[elicokiz]

I always find Google book a useful place to find information - also try using the arboricultural information exchange website

 

have fun

Dave

[William]

You could try searching the ISA Arb & Uran Forestry Journal - you can look through articles over a year old and also search for key words Arboriculture & Urban Forestry Online.

 

You could also try Urban Forestry & Urban Greening at ScienceDirect - Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, Volume 9, Issue 3, Pages 169-272 (2010).

 

If you've already looked through these journals and not found anything of interest you may want to be more specific - ie instead of searching 'urban shopping areas' search for articles containing words such as 'roots', 'pollution' or 'planting' etc. And try Google Scholar too.

 

A good starting point in this topic would be Bradshaw's Trees in the Urban Landscape: Principles and Practice.

 

Cheers

[BenR]

Glynn Percival of Bartlett has done some research on this before. I think I have some of his notes and lecture slides still. I will try to dig them out for you. Ben

[BenR]

PM me your email address and I can send you the folder of all his stuff if you like..

[benjo3112]

Hi and welcome to arbtalk.

 

Sounds like a good dissertation. I don't mean to rude, but shouldn't your tutor be guiding you towards these information sources?

 

When I read your title I thought you might be doing some primary research via questionnaires or something which would be cool. Asking other people how to start your research is less cool though - get in the library or in to the periodical archive!

 

My lecturer has just left the college, thus its proving difficult to get guidence from her. Wasn't asking how to research, just pointers on any relevant info that people knew of, as im in my final year i do know how to access the library.

[benjo3112]

PM me your email address and I can send you the folder of all his stuff if you like..

 

[email protected]

 

Cheers.

[BenR]

you are going to get a lot of emails cos it wont let me send more than one of the powerpoints at a time

[benjo3112]

you are going to get a lot of emails cos it wont let me send more than one of the powerpoints at a time

 

Thats fine, will look through them in due course. Many thanks for your help, it should give me a good starting point for research and a direction for my study.

 

Cheers.