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    i-Tree Eco Derby

    Introduction In summer 2021 Forest Research worked with Derby City Council to undertake an i-Tree Eco survey in the city. Derby has 17 electoral wards. 350 sample plots were laid out across the city, to enable analysis of the urban forest in each ward. Map of i-Tree Eco sample plot locations in Derby At...
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    Selecting urban trees for ecosystem service provision

    Ecosystem provision by urban trees to inform species selection and tree replacement rates
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    Why society needs nature – Lessons from research during Covid-19

    The Covid-19 Pandemic and associated ‘lockdown’ restrictions in 2020 impacted people’s lives in many ways, including how often people visited nature and their experiences of it. This report concerns how people visited green and blue natural spaces and their experiences of this during 2020.
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    i-Tree Eco Belfast

    i-Tree Eco project in Belfast to understand the benefits provided by the city's trees.
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    i-Tree Eco Cambridge

    i-Tree Eco study of urban trees in Cambridge.
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    User Manual and Action Plan Stakeholder workshop – December 2020

    Hosted by Forest Research – online  10th December 2020  Programme Attendance list  Workshop aims and structure & Woodlands for water Payments for Ecosystem Services schemes – presentation by Gregory Valatin  Forests for water services: A step-by-step guide for payment schemes. Presentation by Tom Nisbet
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    i-Tree Eco Newport

    An assessment of the ecosystem services provided by Newport city's urban trees. Keywords: iTree Eco, Ecosystem Services, Urban, Trees, Greenspace, Valuation, Gwent
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    Forland Landscape Restoration

    The ForLand-Restoration project is developing a forest landscape restoration decision support platform. A collaborative research project funded by Climate-KIC to explore landscape restoration opportunities with stakeholders with the aim of reaching consensus on land use decisions.
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    Modelling scenarios for woodland expansion in Scotland

    A model was developed to represent the environment of Scotland, including its many different types of land managers and their views about woodland creation. By representing alternative scenarios in the model, the research explored how each set of choices might affect the benefits we get from the environment over the next 100 years and the contribution to woodland cover targets.
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    Valuing mental health benefits of forests

    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
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    Above and belowground ecological linkages in temperate forest soils

    Olivia Azevedo, PhD studentship, University of Stirling (2019-2022)   Background Forests are crucial for biodiversity and also provide numerous ecosystem services that enhance human welfare. However, when studying forests, often the complexity of life belowground either goes unnoticed or it is studied in isolation from its aboveground component. Compartmentalising the above and belowground...
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    Attitudes to Woodland Expansion in Southern Scotland

    A review of the methods available for eliciting local attitudes to woodland expansion (or other land use change), and findings from an attitudinal study in Southern Scotland.
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    Nature based vocational training leading to human wellbeing in Skåne, Sweden

    The Nature Integration Programme facilitates sustainable integration of refugees, asylum seekers and migrants into society. A large number of these groups have been taken in by Sweden in recent years.
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    BioCoRe: An interactive/adaptable landscape ecology approach for targeting restoration

    How we manage priority habitats within increasingly fragmented landscapes is a critical conservation issue.   Practitioners and policy makers are often faced with the dilemma of deciding where to focus limited resources, but evidence on where particular actions will have the largest return on investment is lacking.  To aid this decision...
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    Bratislava, Slovakia – October 2019

    Seventh Full meeting of PESFOR-W –  Crowne Plaza Bratislava, Hodžovo Námestie 2, Bratislava, Slovakia List of participants Programme Programme summary, keynote speakers, etc Introductory presentation from Action Chair – Gregory Valatin  Presentation by Pernille Holtedahl, Blue Maia Ltd on Green bonds and other private financing vehicles for investing in woodland creation.  Presentation by Shingo Shibata, Sophia University, Tokyo,...
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    Valuing tree and forest ecosystem services

    Our research explores the value of different tree and forest ecosystem services and uses innovative methods to identify and capture those values
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    Valuing and governing tree and forest ecosystem services

    This research provides new insights into how to recognise and understand the value of ecosystem services provided by trees and forests.
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    COMMUNITREE: Connecting tree databases to the public, improving urban tree data for business, government and research

    Trees are fundamental components of our urban environment: they make cities more pleasant to live in, keep them cool in summer, reduce flooding, clean the air, provide homes for wildlife, and are a living connection to the past. Trees can also be a source of conflict between local authorities and...