Programmes and projects.
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EU Indicates a European Union project
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- Accessibility and racial equality
- Active England evaluation
- Adapting forests and woodlands in Wales to a future climate
- Adapting Scotland's forests to a future climate
- Addressing barriers to accessing woodlands
- Alien invasive species and international trade
- Ash trees for the future (FRAXIGEN) EU
- Assessing and communicating animal disease risks for countryside users
- Assessing the contribution of forestry to equal access for disabled people for recreation in Scottish woods
- Assessing the cultural and spiritual values of European forests
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- Benefits of using woodland and natural space for health
- Behaviour and behaviour change: A literature review
- Better Woodlands for Wales grant scheme evaluation
- BioSoil EU
- Bog woodland habitats
- Breeding and production of conifers
C
- Cell wall macromolecules and reaction wood (CEMARE) EU
- Children and young people’s perceptions of climate change
- Chopwell Wood health project evaluation
- Clearance and disposal strategies for Phytophthora-infected rhododendron
- Climate change: adapting forests and woodlands in Wales to a future climate
- Climate change: adapting Scotland's forests to a future climate
- Climate change: developing adaptation strategies for forests (ForeSTClim) EU
- Climate change: impacts
- Climate change impacts and adaptation in England's woodlands
- Climate change: mitigation
- Climate Change Risk Assessment (CCRA)
- ClimateXChange
- Clocaenog Continuous Cover Forestry (CCF) Research Area
- Collaborative frameworks in land management: a case-study of wild deer in Britain
- Community forestry in Great Britain
- Compression wood in conifers (Compression Wood) EU
- Condition survey of non-woodland amenity trees
- Contamination and integrated remediation of brownfield land
- Contribution of trees, woods and forests to quality of life: communities, place-making and regeneration
- Controlling tree colonisation on restored open habitats
- Continuous cover silviculture
- Coppice woodlands
- Creating upland native woodland
- Critical assessment of evidence of net economic benefits of initiatives to create or improve greenspace
- Cultural value of trees, woods and forests
- Cydcoed evaluation programme
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- Decision framework for public involvement in forest design planning
- Determining invasiveness and risk of Dothistroma (DIAROD) EU
- Developing climate change adaptation strategies for forests (ForeSTClim) EU
- Developing restoration guidance for landfill sites
- Development of decision tools and best practice guidance for land regeneration
- Development of improved methods for detection, control and eradication of pine wood nematodes in support of EU Plant Health Policy (REPHRAME) EU
- Development of storm resistant landscapes (STORMRISK) EU
- Dieback of birch
- Dothistroma (red band) needle blight
- Dormancy and cold hardiness in forest tree seedlings (COLDTREE) EU
- Drought stress in Sitka spruce in eastern Scotland and its association with a species of Phomopsis
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- Eco-engineering and conservation of slopes (ECOSLOPES) EU
- Ecology of upland native woodlands
- Economic integration of urban consumers demand and rural forestry production EU
- Enhancing the forest sector's contribution to equal access for disabled people in Scottish forests
- Environmental benefits and impacts of greenspace development
- Environmental Change Network
- Environment management for low impact silviculture
- Environmental volunteering: motivations and barriers
- Equality and inclusion of social diversity with respect to woods and forests in the UK: an evidence review
- Establishment and maintenance (forestry operations)
- Establishment of a european information system on forest genetic resources (EUFGIS) EU
- Estimating amenity values of street trees and woodland views: a methodological review
- Estimating visitor and visit numbers to woodlands
- European forest genomics network (GENOSILVA) EU
- European network for vegetation management EU
- Evaluation and appraisal of the social dimensions of forestry
- Evaluation of the Neroche Landscape Partnership Scheme
- Expected climate change and options for EU silviculture (ECHOES) EU
- Exploring disabled people's perceptions and use of forest recreation facilities
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- Forest economics: appraisal, valuation and incentives
- Forest governance: planning, partnerships and participation
- Forest hydrology
- Forest Focus review EU
- Forest habitat network in Scotland
- Forest management decision support systems (FORSYS) EU
- Forest models for research and decision support in sustainable forest management EU
- Forest School in England and Wales and its impact on young children
- Forestry profession and change in silviculture practice
- Forestry, sustainable behaviours and behaviour change
- Forests for recreation and nature tourism (FORREC) EU
- Forests, trees and human health and well-being EU
- Further development and implementation of an EU-level forest monitoring system (FutMon) EU
- Furthering the use of English wood products in a range of markets
G
- Genetic conservation
- Genetic diversity in the river populations of the European black poplar (EUROPOP) EU
- Glentress Trial Area
- Governance of community forests and woodlands in Great Britain
- Grazing as a means of maintaining open habitats
- Green networks and people
- Greenhouse gases and carbon dynamics of forestry
- Growing places: a study of social change in the National Forest
H
- Habitat networks
- Habitats and Rare Priority Protected Species (HaRPPS)
- Harvesting and transport
- Heathland restoration methods
- Hill Holt Wood social enterprise and community woodland
- Historic environment
- Human dimensions of adaptive forest management
- Human dimensions of species management
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- Impact of insects on tree growth
- Impact of genetics on timber properties of Sitka spruce
- Impact of management on existing native woodland
- Impact of pests and pathogens under changing management
- Impact of Phytophthora diseases on trees
- Impact of silviculture on timber properties
- Impacts and benefits of community-based woodland enterprise and social enterprise
- Impacts of different models of delivering forestry through community engagement
- Impacts of large herbivores on woodlands
- Improving methodologies for measuring stem-flow in forest plots
- Improving the ecological content of Forest Plans
- Improving the habitat value of plantation restocks
- Integrated establishment systems for the uplands
- Integrated forest management of Hylobius abietis
- Integrated forest monitoring
- Integrated forest vegetation management
- Integrated habitat network modelling
- Integrated management of forestry operations
- Intensive long term monitoring of forest ecosystems
- Intra and interspecific geneflow in oaks (OAKFLOW) EU
- Investigation of canopy throughfall and interception EU
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- Landowners’ attitudes to woodland creation and management in the UK
- Landscape ecology
- Learning from monitoring and evaluation
- Linking defoliation by Tortrix with tree growth and tree nutrient status
- Lowland habitat networks in Scotland
- Lowland native woodlands
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- Mammal damage to trees and woodland
- Management and restoration of priority open habitats
- Management of grey squirrels
- Management of long-term experiments
- Management of multifunctional forests (MULTIFOR) EU
- Management of non-native or invasive vertebrates
- Management of roe deer in the peri-urban environment
- Management of upland native woodlands
- Management planning and site assessment of upland native woodlands
- Managing forest carbon and greenhouse gas balances
- Managing the Pinewoods of Scotland
- Modelling and forecasting timber yield and quality in Europe (MEFYQUE) EU
- Modelling the effects of site factors and silviculture on Sitka spruce timber quality
- Modelling mixed-age and mixed species stands
- Models for adaptive forest management in a changing climate (MOTIVE) EU
- Monitoring and evaluating quality of life for Forestry Commission England
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- Natural Environment Framework: Woodland creation case study
- Natural regeneration of broadleaved trees and shrubs
- New native woodlands
- Non-chemical protection against conifer root and butt rot
- Non-timber forest products (biological products)
- Northern ToSIA (Tool for Sustainability Impact Assessment) EU
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- Partnership working: third sector, local government and agency engagement with the Forestry Commission
- Pathway evaluation and pest risk management in transport (PERMIT) EU
- Payments for ecosystem services
- Peabody Hill Wood social housing and greenspace
- Pine-tree lappet moth
- Plant health risk and monitoring evaluation (PHRAME) EU
- Public access, recreation and tourism
- Public engagement in forestry and woodland plans and projects
- Public Forest Estate: social study
R
- Red band needle blight
- Reducing the impact of non-native or invasive vertebrates to forestry
- Relationships between peri-urban woodlands and people’s health and well-being
- Research forests and experiments
- Resilience of urban trees to a changing climate
- Resource infrastructure for monitoring and adapting European Atlantic forests under changing climate (REINFFORCE) EU
- Restoration of bogs
- Restoration of lowland plantations on ancient woodland sites (PAWS)
- Restoration of upland planted ancient woodland sites (PAWS)
- Review of approaches to carbon additionality
- Review of approaches to carbon valuation, discounting and risk management
- Review of the Forest Education Initiative in Britain
- Review of research evidence in relation to the role of trees and woods in formal education and learning
- Rhododendron control
- Role of urban trees in regulating heat and UV exposure
S
- Sampling soil in forests: accounting for spatial variation
- Science policy linkages in continuous cover forestry
- Scots pine timber quality in North Scotland: market requirements and resource availability
- Seed and seedling biology
- Selection and testing of conifers
- Site investigation and prioritisation for the establishment of sustainable greenspace on brownfield sites
- Slowing the Flow at Pickering (flood management project)
- Social and cultural values of woodlands in northwest and southeast England
- Social and cultural values of woodlands in Vermont, USA
- Social, cultural and economic values of contemporary non-timber forest products: Wild Harvests
- Social diversity and employment in the forestry profession
- Social media and forestry
- Social research in forestry: impact and effectiveness
- Society and diversity in relation to trees, woods and forests
- Soil mineral weathering rates
- Soil sustainability
- Spatial analysis and prioritisation of the social and cultural values attached to woodlands and forests
- Species action plan research
- Street tree valuation systems
- Street trees: governance and social values
- Sustainability impact assessment of the forestry-wood chain (EFORWOOD) EU
- Sustainability impact assessment tools for multifunctional land use (SENSOR) EU
- Sustainable restoration of brownfield sites
- Synthetic maps of gene diversity and provenance performance for utilisation and conservation of oak genetic resources (FAIROAK) EU
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- Timber utilisation for the silviculture and processing industries
- Tool for sustainability impact assessment (Northern ToSIA) EU
- TreeGeneration: A review of the urban forestry pilot project for North East Wales
- Tree health and ectomycorrhizal fungal communities
- Tree stability and climate
- Trees and water management in urban areas
- Trees and woods for well-being and quality of life
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- Uptake of Decision Support Systems (DSS) in the GB forestry sector
- Urban forestry and society
- Urban health and health inequalities and the role of urban forestry
- Urban networks for people and biodiversity
- Urban trees and greenspace in a changing climate
- Urgent conservation management for Scottish Capercaillie EU
- Using molecular technology to characterise the biology of Pseudomonas syringae pv. aesculi, causing bleeding canker of horse chestnut
- Using nature in offender rehabilitation
- Using social approaches in coal ash remediation (RECOAL) EU
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- A valuation of the economic and social contribution of Forestry for People in Scotland
- Visualisation tools for public participation in managing landscape change (VISULANDS) EU
- Volunteering in forests in Scotland and Wales
W
- Waste minimization and utilisation in greenspace creation
- Wildfires in Wales: social drivers and mitigation measures
- Wind and trees (IUFRO Unit 8.03.06)
- Wood and timber properties
- Wood you believe it? Children and young people’s perceptions of climate change
- Woodland and health pilot project (West Midlands)
- Woodland structure and birds – effects of woodland management and deer browsing
- Woodfuel
- Woodfuel: social and economic dimensions
- Woodfuel supply chain: a scoping study
- Woodland-based social enterprises: enabling factors and barriers to success
- Woodland burial studies
- Woodland habitat networks for Wales
- Wye Wood evaluation
