Projects that our Social and Economic Research Group has undertaken in the past few years.
Well-being and quality of life
- Access for all? Barriers to accessing woodlands in the UK? (PDF-77K)
- Active England evaluation (PDF-707K)
- Chopwell Wood health Project (PDF-140K)
- Cultural values of trees, woods and forests (PDF-474K)
- Environmental volunteering: Motivations, benefits and barriers (PDF-584K)
- Estimating visitor and visit numbers to woodlands (PDF-653K)
- Evaluation of the Neroche Landscape Partnership Scheme (PDF-398K)
- Forests for recreation and nature tourism: European COST Action E33 (PDF-126K)
- Forest school: A marvellous opportunity to learn (PDF-160K)
- Growing places: A study of social change in The National Forest (PDF-364K)
- Inventory of evidence and programmes relating to trees and forests and (peri-)urban regeneration and place-making (PDF-126K)
- Leisure landscapes: Exploring the role of forestry in tourism (PDF-113K)
- New pathways for health and well-being in Scotland (PDF-590K)
- Offenders and nature schemes: Using conservation and forest management in rehabilitation (PDF-698K)
- Peabody Hill Wood: Impact of trees on well-being of residents on two social housing estates (PDF-221K)
- People’s experiences of woodlands in north-west and south-east England (PDF-618K)
- Perspectives on forests and trees: a view from Vermont (PDF-184K)
- Place-making and Communities: A review of concepts, indicators, policy and practice (PDF-374K)
- Review of the Forest Education Initiative in Britain (PDF-152K)
- Review of the research evidence in relation to the role of trees and woods in formal education and learning (PDF-245K)
- Review of urban health, health inequalities and the role of urban forestry in Britain (PDF-434K)
- West Midlands woodland and health pilot evaluation (PDF-615K)
- Wild harvests: Social, cultural and economic values of non-timber forest products (PDF-162K)
- Wood you believe it? Children’s and young people’s perceptions of climate change (PDF-455K)
- Youth mountain biking at Bedgebury Active England project (PDF-309K)
Community diversity, coherence and development
- Civil society, the Forestry Commission and partnerships (PDF-124K)
- Engaging with rivers: using imaginative and creative approaches as a learning tool (PDF-205K)
- Evaluating Cydcoed – Have community-managed woodlands provided social and economic benefit? (PDF-143K)
- Exploring disabled people’s perceptions and use of forest recreation in Scotland, England and Wales (PDF-652K)
- Hill Holt Wood: Social enterprise and community woodland (PDF-115K)
- Public engagement with forests and woodlands (PDF-129K)
- Social diversity and the forestry profession (PDF-190K)
- Social media and forestry: a scoping review (PDF-179K)
- The ‘Faith Woodland’ project in Maulden Woods: An evaluation (PDF-672K)
- Wildfires in Wales (PDF-134K)
- Woodland-related social enterprises (PDF-69K)
Governance
- Assessing and communicating animal disease risks for countryside users (PDF-696K)
- Assessing the contribution of forestry grants to equal access for disabled people to Scottish woodlands (PDF-587K)
- Community experiences of the National Forest Land Scheme (PDF-713K)
- Community woodlands: an overview (PDF-160K)
- Consultation and community involvement in forest planning: research in Cranborne Chase and North Dorset (PDF-603K)
- Decision framework for public involvement in forest design planning (PDF-584K)
- Disturbance of wildlife and the recreational use of forests (PDF-148K)
- Enhancing the forest sector’s contribution to equal access for disabled people to Scottish forests (PDF-644K)
- Human dimensions of adaptive forest management (PDF-160K)
- Impact of legislation on collaborative management: the case of wild deer (PDF-128K)
- Key ingredients of collaborative (deer) management (PDF-139K)
- Management of roe deer in peri-urban Scotland (PDF-429K)
- Mapping the woodfuel system (PDF-301K)
- Public benefits from private forests and woodland in England: classifying private woodland owners (PDF-295K)
- RECOAL: Reintegration of coal ash disposal sites and mitigation of pollution in the West Balkan area (PDF-257K)
- Review of TreeGeneration: The urban forestry project for north-east Wales (PDF-726K)
- Social research and the Forestry Commission: Perceptions and applications (PDF-199K)
- Stakeholder perceptions of short-rotation forestry (PDF-146K)
- Sustainability impact assessment: Tools for environmental, social and economic effects of multifunctional land use in European regions (SENSOR) (PDF-239K)
Economic research
- Carbon additionality (PDF-189K)
- Carbon valuation, discounting and risk management (PDF-212K)
- Critical assessment of evidence of net economic benefits of initiatives to create or improve greenspace (PDF-79K)
- Estimating amenity values of street trees and woodland views: a methodological review (PDF-487K)
- Estimating the aggregate amenity value of woodland views using spatial analysis (PDF-424K)
- Estimating woodfuel resource cost curves (PDF-107K)
- EU Emissions Trading System: Opportunities for Forests? (PDF-124K)
- Health benefits of street trees (PDF-77K)
- Natural Environment Framework: woodland case study (PDF-220K)
- Payments for ecosystem services: experience and perceptions in the US (PDF-194K)
- Street tree valuation systems (PDF-393K)
- Wood products from sustainably managed woodlands: Review of consumer awareness and best marketing practice (PDF-521K)
- Woodfuel scoping study (PDF-266K)
Evaluation and appraisal
- EFORWOOD: incorporating social and cultural values into sustainability impact assessments of the forestry-wood chain (PDF-59K)
- Monitoring and evaluating Quality of Life for the Comprehensive Spending Review 2007 (PDF-227K)
- Valuation of the economic and social contribution of forestry for people in Scotland (PDF-219K)