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Read our news and other articles relating to our activities. You can also find out what we’re up to by following @Forest_Research on Twitter or through the Forest Research Vimeo channel and our LinkedIn Page.
Project exploring the potential of vacant and derelict land (VDL) sites for establishing vegetation such as trees and woodland.
Project identifying and exploring climate risks and mitigating actions to planned and established woodland on Vacant and Derelict Land
Project assessing the efficacy, biodiversity, carbon impacts and ecology of natural colonisation as a means of establishing new woodland.
Forestry Commission Centre of Excellence for brownfield regeneration to woodland and open green space
This research examines approaches to valuation of the mental health benefits of forests and proposes how monetary valuation of these benefits can be developed further. It examines metrics to quantify mental health impacts, methodologies to value changes in these and potential for incorporating associated values into natural capital accounting
The Nature Integration Programme facilitates sustainable integration of refugees, asylum seekers and migrants into society. Many of these groups have been taken in by Sweden in recent years.
Our research explores the value of different tree and forest ecosystem services and uses innovative methods to identify and capture those values
This research provides new insights into how to recognise and understand the value of ecosystem services provided by trees and forests.
The development of stakeholder visions for woodland expansion in Scotland from analysing organisational documents, workshops and interviews.
Resilient forests are important if our trees are to cope better with changing environmental conditions and threats from pests and diseases. This page provides information on the publications produced as part of Forest Research's 'Delivering Resilient Forests' programme of research.
NHS Greenspace in Scotland is being developed through a series of demonstration projects at different hospital sites. Staff, patients, visitors and local communities are the beneficiaries of improvements to NHS Greenspace.
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