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    Murrell, G et al 2024 Motivations and barriers to active engagement final

     Murrell, G et al 2024 Motivations and barriers to active engagement final
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    What is the urban forest?

     The urban forest comprises all the trees in the urban realm – in public and private spaces, along linear routes and waterways and in amenity areas. It contributes to green infrastructure and the wider urban ecosystem. It provides numerous benefits to human society and it does so in vast quantities. Maintaining...
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    Climate change and urban forests

     Can urban forests help cities adapt to climate change? Urban forests can both help reduce climate change and help urban society cope with its impacts. As growing trees remove carbon dioxide from the air, storing the carbon in their biomass, urban forests are an important part of our response to...
  • Service

    About the Nature for Climate Fund

     The Nature for Climate Fund (NCF) Programme, supported by DEFRA, is a key initiative aimed at tackling climate change and boosting biodiversity. Running until March 2025, it runs a range of projects across the UK, including 30 research projects here at Forest Research (FR). These aim to advance our understanding of woodlands, and develop innovative […]
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    Forestry publication document

    Factsheet: Climate change and urban forests
    Lead Author: Kieron Doick
    Urban forests can both help reduce climate change and help urban society cope with its impacts.
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    Forestry publication document

    Delivery of ecosystem services by urban forests
    Lead Author: Helen Davies
    This Research Report looks at a broad range of urban forest-based ecosystem services and disservices and, using a literature review, links their provision with four aspects of urban forests (physical scale, physical structure and context in terms of location and proximity to people and land use and ownership). A key objective of this report is […]
  • Research

    EU Forest Action Plan: urban and peri-urban forests

     The page summarises a workshop in 2011 between forestry experts and stakeholders, European Commission staff and representatives from Member States to discuss urban and peri-urban forestry (UPF) initiatives and recommend EU-wide action to drive the UPF agenda forward.
  • Media

    Murrell, G et al. 2024 Motivations and barriers to active engagement

     Murrell, G et al. 2024 Motivations and barriers to active engagement
  • Publications

    Urban Forests in a European Perspective: what can the National Forest Inventory tell us?
    Lead Author: Natalie Marie Gulsrud
    This pilot project demonstrates that the NFI data, in combination with the DEGURBA approach, provides existing data on European urban forests. Now that we know what we have, there is potential to quantify and qualify the state and trends of European urban forests. Moving forward we can draw on existing policies and concepts such as […]
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    An insight to the current state and sustainability of urban forests across Great Britain based on i-Tree Eco surveys
    Lead Author: Madalena Vaz Monteiro
    Research into the sustainability of 12 urban forests across Great Britain, and recommendation of a framework to rate sustainability of urban trees.
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