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As a child, I was fascinated by the fights over city forests that featured prominently in the media. In The Netherlands, the Amelisweerd forest near Utrecht gained strong support from activities and the local community when part of it was under threat from highway development. Other countries, such as Germany and the United Kingdom, also had their urban forest conflicts. I soon started realising that nature and development were often an unlikely match.
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Konijnendijk, C.C. (2018). A Forest of Conflict. In: The Forest and the City. Future City, vol 9. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-75076-7_14
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