Summary
Forest governance research focuses on the decision-making processes that lead to sustainable forest management, integration of trees and woodlands into wider planning frameworks and sustainable partnerships for delivery of benefits from trees and woodlands.
Key research issues focus on the newly decentralised planning frameworks; the upsurge of partnerships in which the Forestry Commission is involved; the range of public engagement models and their relevance to the new diversity and equality agenda; and the need for more effective application of the findings from monitoring and evaluation.
Description and summary of research included in this theme (PDF-24K)
Individual research projects
- Adapting forest management for climate change: social aspects
- Collaborative deer management in Britain
- Consultation and community involvement in forest planning (PDF-604K)
- Decision framework for public involvement in forest design planning
- Forestry profession and change in silviculture practice
- Governance of community forests and woodlands in Great Britain
- Green networks and people
- Human dimensions of adaptive forest management
- Human dimensions of species management
- Landowner attitudes to woodland management and creation
- Learning from monitoring and evaluation
- Management of roe deer in the peri-urban environment
- Partnership working: Third sector, local government and agency engagement with the Forestry Commission
- Science-policy linkages in continuous cover forestry
- Social research in forestry: impact and effectiveness
- Stakeholder involvement in the New Forest
- Street trees - governance and social values
- Treegeneration: A review of the urban forestry pilot project for North East Wales
- Woodfuel – social and economic dimensions
Contact
For further information please contact:
Anna Lawrence
Head of Social and Economic Research Group
Centre for Human and Ecological Sciences
Forest Research
Northern Research Station
Roslin
Midlothian EH25 9SY
Tel: 0131 445 2176
Fax: 0131 445 5124
Email: anna.lawrence@forestry.gsi.gov.uk
