Projects that our Social and Economic Research Group has undertaken in the past few years.
Well-being and quality of life
- Active England evaluation (PDF-707K)
- Chopwell Wood Health Project (PDF-140K)
- Environmental volunteering: motivations, benefits and barriers (PDF-584K)
- Forests for recreation and nature tourism: European COST Action E33 (PDF-126K)
- Forest School: a marvellous opportunity to learn (PDF-160K)
- Growing Places: a study of social change in The National Forest (PDF-364K)
- Leisure landscapes: exploring the role of forestry in tourism (PDF-113K)
- New pathways for health and well-being in Scotland (PDF-590K)
- Offenders and Nature schemes: using conservation and forest management in rehabilitation (PDF-698K)
- Peabody Hill Wood: impact of trees on well-being of residents on two social housing estates (PDF-221K)
- People’s experiences of woodlands in north-west and south-east England (PDF-618K)
- Perspectives on forests and trees: a view from Vermont (PDF-184K)
- Valuation of the economic and social contribution of forestry for people in Scotland (PDF-219K)
- West Midlands woodland and health pilot evaluation (PDF-615K)
- Wild Harvests: social, cultural and economic values of non-timber forest products (PDF-162K)
- Wood you believe it? Children’s and young people’s perceptions of climate change (PDF-455K)
Community diversity, coherence and development
- Evaluating Cydcoed – have community-managed woodlands provided social and economic benefit? (PDF-143K)
- Exploring disabled people’s perceptions and use of forest recreation in Scotland, England and Wales (PDF-652K)
- Hill Holt Wood: social enterprise and community woodland (PDF-115K)
- The ‘Faith Woodland’ project in Maulden Woods: an evaluation (PDF-672K)
Governance
- A decision framework for public involvement in forest design planning (PDF-584K)
- A review of TreeGeneration: the urban forestry project for north-east Wales (PDF-726K)
- Assessing and communicating animal disease risks for countryside users (PDF-696K)
- Assessing the contribution of forestry grants to equal access for disabled people to Scottish woodlands (PDF-587K)
- Collaborative frameworks in land management: a case study of wild deer management in Britain (PDF-599K)
- Community experiences of the National Forest Land Scheme (PDF-713K)
- Consultation and community involvement in forest planning: research in Cranborne Chase and North Dorset (PDF-603K)
- Enhancing the forest sector’s contribution to equal access for disabled people to Scottish forests (PDF-644K)
- Public benefits from private forests and woodland in England: classifying private woodland owners (PDF-295K)
- RECOAL: Reintegration of coal ash disposal sites and mitigation of pollution in the West Balkan area (PDF-257K)
- Social research and the Forestry Commission: perceptions and applications (PDF-199K)
- Sustainability impact assessment: tools for environmental, social and economic effects of multifunctional land use in European regions (SENSOR) (PDF-239K)
- The management of roe deer in peri-urban Scotland (PDF-429K)
