An in-depth technical report by Forest Research providing a synthesis of the evidence on the positive benefits which green infrastructure brings to society.
A summary report is also available: Benefits of green infrastructure – summary report.
By Land Regeneration and Urban Greenspace, Centre for Forestry and Climate Change.
Hillier, J., Whittaker, C., Dailey, G., Aylott, M., Casella, E., Richter, G.M., Riche, A., Murphy, R., Taylor, G. & Smith, P. (2009). Greenhouse gas emissions from four bioenergy crops in England and Wales: Integrating spatial estimates of yield and soil carbon balance in life cycle analyses.
Street trees and urban woodlands provide a number of environmental and social benefits, including contributing to climate change adaptation and mitigation and providing urban green space. This Note presents the results of a review of three approaches to estimating the amenity value of street trees: CAVAT, Helliwell and i-Tree.
Climate change and street trees project – Social Research Report.
Understanding the social and cultural values associated with street trees in the urban environment and the governance context in which decisions about their management are made.
By Norman Dandy.
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People, trees and woodlands
Social forestry research
This study reviews approaches to accounting for carbon storage and carbon substitution benefits of harvested wood products under existing carbon market standards, and considers how the UK Woodland Carbon Code - which at present covers climate change mitigation benefits of afforestation in terms of carbon sequestration, might be extended.
The principal roles of Forest Research in this Defra programme were to provide expert advice and to deliver a range of site specific environmental, soil and vegetation-related parameters and data-sets required for the evaluation of the Critical Loads calculation methodology. This evaluation includes the testing and calibration of process-based dynamic models of soil chemistry.
By Mark […]
Exposure to a contrasting novel environment such as waterlogging under common garden conditions can trigger release of otherwise unobservable (cryptic) genetic variation. Under a flooding treatment, there was a greater increase in variability in Scots pine populations originating from drier sites in Scotland which likely reflects a relative absence of past selection. Under climate change this cryptic genetic variation may provide considerable potential to adapt.
Guidance to assist the forest industry in identifying sites where stumps may be harvested without compromising long-term sustainability, and on any environmental safeguards that must be applied.
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Continuous cover silviculture
Integrated establishment systems for the uplands
Management of upland native woodlands
Woodland and habitat management publications
Practical guidance covering a flexible and adaptive approach and best advice on managing continuous cover.
Forestry Commission Operational Guidance Booklet No. 7.
Related pages
Continuous cover silviculture
Integrated establishment systems for the uplands
Management of upland native woodlands
Woodland and habitat management publications
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