Specialization:
Environmental Decision Making, Urban Sustainability, Urban Forestry, Climatology, Physical Geography, Statistics and Quantitative Analysis, GIS, Remote Sensing, Internet and Mobile Mapping
Department:
Geography & Environmental Studies
Research Interests:
1. Urban Microclimate
2. Urban Soil Amendment
3. Mapping Tree Roots in Three Dimensions
4. Forecasting Urban Tree Growth
5. Urban Forest Benefit Estimation
6. Optimal Planting Locations for City Trees
7. Mobile Mapping of Urban Trees and Natural Heritage Features
8. Urban Forest Vulnerability
9. Disturbance Ecology
Current Courses:
SA 8923: Land Geographic Information Systems
GEO 612: Environmental Decision Making
GEO 561: Multivariate Statistical Techniques
GEO 361: Inferential Statistical Techniques
GEO 313: Geography of the Physical Environment
EUS 301: Reading Neighbourhood Environments
Selected Publications & Presentations:
Sawka, M., Millward, A.A., McKay, J., Sarkovich, M. (2013) Growing summer energy conservation through residential tree planting. Landscape and Urban Planning. 113: 1-9.
Pothier, A.J., Millward, A.A. (2012) Valuing trees on city-centre institutional land: an opportunity for urban forest management.Journal of Environmental Planning and Management. (ahead-of-print): 1-23
Kershaw, S.E., Millward, A.A. (2012) A spatio-temporal index for heat vulnerability assessment. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment. 184: 7329-7342.
Millward, A.A., Paudel, K., Briggs S.E. (2011) Naturalization as a strategy for improving soil physical characteristics in a forested urban park. Urban Ecosystems. 14:261-278.
Millward, A.A., Sabir, S. (2011) Benefits of a forested urban park: what is the value of Allan Gardens to the city of Toronto, Canada? Landscape and Urban Planning. 100:177-188.
Position Currently Held:
Principal Investigator - Urban Forest Research & Ecological Disturbance (UFRED) Group
Faculty of Arts
