Dr Mark Johnston MBE FICFor was recently awarded the 2022 International Society of Arboriculture (ISA) R.W. Harris Author’s Citation. This award of distinction is given to authors who consistently publish timely and valuable content related to the field of arboriculture.
The ISA Awards of Distinction, presented by Bartlett Tree Experts, are the highest honors given by ISA based on nominations submitted by members and industry professionals. The ISA Awards of Distinction recipients are announced at the ISA Annual International Conference. This year’s conference was held in Malmö, Sweden. The award is Mark’s third ISA Award of Distinction. In 2009, he received the ISA Award of Merit.
With 50 years of experience in the fields of arboriculture, landscape, and urban forestry, Mark worked as a tree surgery contractor, tree officer in local government, consultant in private practice, government adviser and as a university academic. He also served as the lead researcher and main author of a government study on urban trees and tree management in England called Trees in Towns II which remains the most detailed study of England’s urban trees and their management to date.
Mark has published more than 50 academic papers that appeared in various journals including Arboricultural Journal, Urban Forestry and Urban Greening and ISA’s Arboriculture and Urban Forestry. Many of his papers focus on the social science aspects of arboriculture and urban forestry, particularly municipal tree management, and he is an internationally acknowledged authority of this. He is a member of ISA, a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Foresters, Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Horticulture and Honorary Fellow of the Arboricultural Association.
