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    Branching Out – New Routes to Valuing Urban Treescapes

    Branching Out is a project led by Loughborough University that aims to meaningfully account for the social and cultural values of treescapes.
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    National Conversation on Plant Health

    The National Conversation project aims to lay the foundations for a national conversation on plant and tree health and biosecurity, by developing our understanding of the public’s awareness, attitudes, motivations and actions around the topic and exploring opportunities to encourage action for plant health and biosecurity through targeted interventions.
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    Active Forests evaluation: Phase 3 ‘Removing Barriers’

    Overview The Active Forests programme (‘Active Forests’) aims to create a physical activity habit for life for visitors to the public forest estate in England.   This page summarises details of the monitoring and evaluation of phase 3 of the Active Forests programme, called ‘Removing Barriers’. This phase runs for three years from...
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    Active Forests evaluation: Phase 2

    Overview The Active Forests programme (‘Active Forests’) aims to create a physical activity habit for life for visitors to the public forest estate in England.   This page summarises details of the monitoring and evaluation of phase 2 of the Active Forests programme, which ran for five years from 2017-2022 across 18 sites,...
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    Active Forests evaluation: Phase 1 (pilot phase)

    Overview During the pilot phase, the Active Forests programme (‘Active Forests’) aimed to create a sporting habit for life for visitors to the public forest estate in England. This page summarises details of the monitoring and evaluation of phase 1 – the pilot phase – of the Active Forests programme, which ran...
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    Active Forests evaluation: overview

    About Active Forests The Active Forests Programme (‘Active Forests’) aims to create a physical activity habit for life for visitors to the nation’s forests in England. The programme provides engaging, inspirational and motivating physical activity opportunities for new and existing forest visitors.   The key principles of the programme are:  Activities are led by...
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    Understanding and mapping the socio-cultural benefits of forest recreation

    Trees, woods, and forests provide multiple benefits to society, including those of social and cultural value. This research outlines a scoping study which sought to identify and test methods for spatially mapping and surveying the recreation attitudes and behaviours of people living in an area around Cannock Chase National Landscape.
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    Social and cultural values of treescapes

    This research project aimed to improve the representation and understanding of the social and cultural values of treescapes in plant health policy. Existing evidence on the social and cultural values of treescapes by publics tends to be limited in scope, for example to recreation, aesthetics, or health values.
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    Understanding the Social & Cultural Value of Trees outside Woodlands: Peri-Urban and Rural (ToWPUR)

    This project will gather evidence to better understand the social and cultural value of an understudied part of English treescapes: Trees outside Woodlands in peri-urban and rural areas (ToWPUR). The research will feed into a variety of policy aims relating to the societal benefits and impact of tree-planting and management.
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    Mapping the Social Benefits of Woodland Creation and Expansion

    This research aimed to outline what would be needed and what the benefits would be in establishing a longitudinal research network of new planting sites with local communities in different locations to monitor the social benefits, attitudes, actions, motivations and barriers associated with this planting over time.
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    Understanding, Enabling and Supporting Public Access to Woodlands

    Research project to gather evidence to better understand, enable and support public access to woodlands in England. There are currently evidence gaps in meeting the aims of the England Tree Action Plan and the forthcoming Woodland Access Implementation Plan. This research will contribute directly to the delivery and implementation of the plans.