Urban Forestry Leadership

The University of British Columbia’s Master of Urban Forestry Leadership (MUFL) is a unique, intensive 13-month course-based master’s program for those ready to shape the cities of tomorrow. As the only program of its kind, MUFL offers a truly interdisciplinary education—blending expertise from arboriculture, forestry, urban planning, landscape architecture, and urban forestry.

Highly-qualified urban forestry professionals are becoming increasingly necessary in cities around the world due to the rapid pace and scale of urbanization, the need to adapt to multiple impacts of climate change in cities, and increasing demand from the public for the recreational, psychological, and health benefits that trees and greenspaces provide.

Features

Students will learn how trees and vegetation grow and are managed in urban settings, but the emphasis of the program will be on skills and knowledge related to leadership and governance; project management and business skills; the public policy and planning context of urban forestry; green infrastructure planning; communication and marketing; public involvement; and urban forest resource and benefit assessment.

The Urban Forestry Leadership program from University of British Columbia is targeted for professionals with urban forestry related work experience in the public, private or not-for-profit sector, but also recent graduates from the UBC Bachelor of Urban Forestry program or similar programs.

Courses included:

• Developing Green and Resilient Cities – The Urban Forestry Approach

• Advances in Arboriculture and Urban Ecology

• Urban Forest Governance

• Geomatics Principles and Applications

• Working with Diverse Knowledge Systems in Sustainable Natural Resources Management

• Urban Forest Resources and Benefits Assessment

• Strategic Urban Forest Planning and Management

• Professional Communication
• Project Proposal Development and Proof of Concept