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  • Research

    Scoping study: assessment of the UK woodfuel supply chain

    The page summarises Forest Research’s review of the UK woodfuel supply chain covering pricing and production cost dynamics and an assessment of knowledge gaps.

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    Valuing mental health benefits of forests

    This research examines approaches to valuation of the mental health benefits of forests and proposes how monetary valuation of these benefits can be developed further. It examines metrics to quantify mental health impacts, methodologies to value changes in these and potential for incorporating associated values into natural capital accounting

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    Carbon storage and substitution benefits of harvested wood products

    This Research Note considers the potential of extending coverage of the UK Woodland Carbon Code to the carbon benefits of wood products associated with woodland creation projects.

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    In Brief: Increasing tree cover on cereal farms in England

    Lead Author: Grace van der Wielen

    Overview This In Brief summarises our recently published Research Report, which explored the issues that matter to cereal farmers in England in relation to trees and tree cover on their farms. The In Brief reports on the general findings of the research, outlines the findings to the research question ‘what...

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    In Brief: Increasing tree cover on dairy farms in England: The role of farmers’ values

    Lead Author: Maddy Pearson

    Understanding the range of values held by farmers in relation to trees allows us to learn how, when, and where farmers may embrace having trees on their land. Explicit consideration of these values will better enable those working to design policies, incentives, tools, advice, or other communications to do so...

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    [Archive] Evaluation of the contribution of forestry to economic development

    Lead Author: A.J. Grayson (Ed)

    At the Fifteenth Congress of the International Union of Forest Research Organisations (I.U.F.R.O.) held at Gainesville, Florida in March 1970, a Working Party was set up to consider methods of evaluating the contribution of Forestry to economic development. This Bulletin contains the papers presented at the meeting of this Working...

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    [Archive] Forest products in the United Kingdom economy

    Lead Author: B.G. Jackson

    The study represents the boldest attempt so far made in Britain to create a model of the two activities of wood-producing and primary processing of wood. On the basis of specified assumptions about future costs, interest rates, prices and demands for forest products, the author presents the results of linear...

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    [Archive] Public recreation in national forests: a factual study

    Lead Author: W.E.S. Mutch

    This Booklet presents the results of investigations during 1963 and 1964 into the demand by the public for the recreational use of some national forests in England and Scotland. The research was intended principally as a methodological study, and it forms part of a wider investigation into the multiple use...

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    Trees and the Scottish Enlightenment – A learning resource for teachers

    Lead Author: Forestry Commission (Scotland)

    Trees and the Scottish Enlightenment is an introduction to the Enlightenment and the beginnings of modern forestry.

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    No rivalry but different

    This is the story of forestry in and around Glenmore and Rothiemurchus based on the memory of those who lived and work in forestry, knitted together from personal recollections.

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    The forest is a beautiful place to be

    This is the story of forestry in and around The Great Glen based on the memory of those who lived and work in forestry, knitted together from personal recollections.