Summary
Site restoration requires key decisions to be made based on social, economic and environmental factors. Effective regeneration requires prioritisation at a regional level. In addition, decision tools based upon best practice guidance offer technical solutions to site specific challenges and opportunities.
Research objectives
Forest Research is currently developing a range of tools to meet these needs at the national to site specific level:
Funders and partners
The Forestry Commission funding is from their Reclamation of man-made sites for forestry programme.
Forestry Commission policy
Use of land degraded by former industrial and urban activity makes an increasingly important contribution to the expansion of woodland. Trees planted on such sites offer immense social benefits in addition to the possibility of economic activity on formerly unproductive land. This programme supports the related objectives of the English Forestry Strategy and across Great Britain generally.
Status
This research is ongoing.
Contact
For more information contact:
Tony Hutchings
Forest Research
Alice Holt Lodge
Farnham
Surrey GU10 4LH
Tel: +44(0)1420 5265270
Fax: +44(0)1420 520180
Email: tony.hutchings@forestry.gsi.gov.uk
