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Recreational Use of Forests and Wildlife Interactions

Lead Author: Forest Research
Legacy socio-economic research relating to: Governance Recreational Use of Forests and Wildlife Interactions (PDF-224KB) Access our current and recent socio-economic research.
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Managing public safety on harvesting sites

Lead Author: Forestry Commission
Everyone involved in forestry work has health and safety duties and responsibilities. This Practice Note provides guidance to help landowners, forest managers and forestry practitioners manage public safety on harvesting sites. Forest operations are high-risk activities, and the management issues involved in harvesting and hauling timber while maintaining public access to forests and woodlands can […]
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Economic benefits of greenspace

Lead Author: Vadims Sarajevs
A substantial body of literature, including government policies, acknowledges the important role of greenspace in sustainable development and the creation of attractive and economically vibrant communities. Greenspace refers to the natural environmental components (green and blue spaces) that lie within and between a region’s cities, towns and villages. This Research Report provides a critical review […]
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Social media and forestry: A scoping report

Lead Author: Amy Stewart
Scoping report to help inform thinking about the value of social media to the Forestry Commission, how it can be more effectively utilised and what objectives and policy goals it can be used to help achieve and so provide a basis for identifying specific future research needs to support the Forestry Commission’s ongoing implementation of, […]
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Community forest governance

Lead Author: Anna Lawrence
This publication has been archived. To access it please follow the links to view on the DEFRA archive. A review of existing literature and research evidence on the range of existing community engagement, governance and ownership arrangements for managing forests in England and beyond (namely Scotland, Wales, Europe and North America). By Anna Lawrence and […]
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Public access to woodlands and forests

Lead Author: Star Molteno
A review of existing literature on public access. By By Star Molteno, Jake Morris and Liz O’Brien. Related pages People, trees and woodlands Social forestry research
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Greenspace design for health and well-being

Lead Author: Aileen Shackell
The guidance set out in this Practice Guide represents a step forward in our thinking about the benefits of the outdoors for health and well-being. It aims to inspire everyone involved with outdoor spaces in healthcare settings to think how they could be used for therapeutic purposes. Focusing on outdoor spaces across the NHS estate, […]
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Understanding private landmanager decision-making: A framework for forestry

Lead Author: Norman Dandy
This report synthesises substantial research relating to private land-management, including previous work by Forest Research. Drawing on both primary and secondary sources, it describes a Framework within which to understand the influences upon land-manager decision-making. By Norman Dandy. Related pages People, trees and woodlands Social forestry research
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Common sense risk management of trees – landowner summary

Lead Author: National Tree Safety Group
This is one of three new publications that have been produced by the Forestry Commission for the National Tree Safety Group. The three documents provide guidance on trees and public safety in the UK for owners, managers and advisers. This landowner summary document provides a summary of the full guidance document – Common sense risk […]
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Human dimensions of adaptive forest management and climate change

Lead Author: Anna Lawrence
Adaptive forest management is a systematic process for continually improving forest management, in conditions of complexity and uncertainty, by learning from the outcomes of experiments and operational practice. Adaptive management has often been proposed as a suitable approach for dealing with uncertainty and complexity in natural systems, particularly in relation to climate change.Some of the […]
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A review of the Forest Education Initiative in Britain

Lead Author: Liz O’Brien
This 2011 review looks at the history and development of the Forest Education Initiative, its governance structure, funding procedures and the activities and members of the cluster groups. By Liz O’Brien and Rebecca Lovell.
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Woodland-related social enterprise: enabling factors and barriers to success

Lead Author: Amy Stewart
Report from project to examine the barriers and challenges facing different types and models of woodland-related social enterprise and to investigate the critical enabling factors affecting them. By Amy Stewart (July 2011). See alsoExecutive summary(PDF-337K) Related pages People, trees and woodlands Social forestry research
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Public engagement and forestry: key lessons for working in urban areas

Lead Author: Paul Tabbush
Research report providing information about three case studies in England (Sherwood Forest, Nottinghamshire), Wales (Craig Y Dinas, South Wales), and Scotland (Bishop’s Estate, Glasgow) that show how a variety of public engagement processes were implemented and what the outcomes of including people were in different urban contexts. By Paul Tabbush and Bianca Ambrose-Oji. Related pages […]
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Principles of public engagement

Lead Author: Paul Tabbush
Research report that synthesises the different principles involved in planning public engagement around forestry and woodland decision making or service delivery, characterises successful processes and outlines core values. By Paul Tabbush and Bianca Ambrose-Oji. Related pages People, trees and woodlands Social forestry research
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The future of the Public Forest Estate in England

Lead Author: Anna Lawrence
Analysis of responses to the suspended Public Consultation January-February 2011. By Anna Lawrence and Matthew Jollands.
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International comparisons of forest policy

Lead Author: Anna Lawrence
This publication has been archived. To access it please follow the links to view on the DEFRA archive. A review of forest policy and instruments in five countries (namely Sweden, Ohio/USA, New Zealand, Denmark and North Rhine-Westphalia/Germany) By Anna Lawrence and Mike Dudley.
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Tanau Gwyllt yng Nghymru – Crynodeb Gweithredol

Lead Author: Matthew Jollands
(Wildfires in Wales – Executive Summary). Summary of this project that sought to characterise and understand the problem of wildfires in the South Wales Valleys region and to offer recommendations for appropriate management and policy responses. By Matthew Jollands, Jake Morris and Andy Moffat. Related pages People, trees and woodlands Social forestry research
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Wildfires in Wales – Final Report

Lead Author: Matthew Jollands
Final report from this project that sought to characterise and understand the problem of wildfires in the South Wales Valleys region and to offer recommendations for appropriate management and policy responses. May 2011. By Matthew Jollands, Jake Morris and Andy Moffat. Related pages People, trees and woodlands Social forestry research

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