Review of recent evidence of health benefits provided by street trees with special attention given to the economic estimates of such benefits.
By Vadims Sarajevs.
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This publication provides information and evidence supporting the idea that the use and enjoyment of woodlands and green spaces improves people’s overall health and well-being.
By Liz O'Brien.
Forward by Sir Liam Donaldson – Chief Medical Officer for England.
November 2005.
Executive summary
Trees and woodlands: nature’s health service is aimed at a wide range of health professionals and environmental […]
Guidelines for the management of established wet-disposed coal ash landfills.
Produced by the RECOAL project – using social approaches in coal ash remediation. This examined the reintegration of coal ash disposal sites and mitigation of pollution in the West Balkan Area.
How Forest Research social and economic scientists have explored what Britain’s trees and woodlands mean to people, how they are used and how they can contribute to the social and cultural life of the country.
Trees and forests in British society – Ten years of social science (PDF-1742K)
Over the past 15 or so years, although generally […]
Questions and Issues
This publication contains the presentations given in December 2000 by speakers from Forest Enterprise, Forest Research and the Forestry Commission. Also included are the contributions made by all delegates in workshop discussion groups which focused on quality of life issues, stakeholders and their importance, and social sustainability.
Research report into employing a social marketing approach to investigating and planning interventions designed to change the behaviour of people looking for work. Specifically, the application behaviour of Black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates in future Forestry Commission recruitments, to see increasing numbers of applications from them.
By Bianca Ambrose-Oji.
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Report providing scoping evidence and information needed to understand current volunteering activity and opportunities and barriers to using volunteers as a consequence of the legal and any other pertinent issues as it applies in Wales. April 2011.
By: Bianca Ambrose-Oji.
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This was a joint collaborative piece of work between Natural Resources Wales, Forest Research, Natural England, NatureScot and the Environment Agency. It aimed to bring together and summarise research conducted in each organisation concerning how people, both adults and children, visited green and blue natural spaces during the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, and their experiences […]
Report from a study exploring people’s connection with trees, woodlands and wider
nature before and during the Covid-19 pandemic. An online survey ran from mid-June until the end of July 2020. This publication reports on the findings of the survey.
Results of a research project aiming to provide a comprehensive valuation of the current social and economic benefits of Scottish forestry, forests and woodlands derived by the people of Scotland.
By David Edwards, Jake Morris, Liz O’Brien, Vadims Sarajevs and Gregory Valatin.
Forestry Commission Research Note 102.
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A photo essay based on interviews with 16 arts and humanities practitioners and academics, focusing on their relationship with Trees Outside of Woodland. Key themes that emerge include childhood memories and experiences, emotional connections and the interconnectedness of humans and nature.
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