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Forest infrastructure includes forest roads and rides, bridges, drainage systems, buildings and other facilities that enable management and access. Infrastructure plays a key role in the resilience of forests to climate change risks, such as flood water drainage and access for wildfire response.

Deciding when, where and how to adapt, over what timescales and how to monitor progress can involve complex decisions. The Climate Change Hub has been designed to help inform these decisions, whilst showing how others are approaching adaptation.

Best Practice Guidance for Land Regeneration is a series of Guidance Notes based on research and practical experience in the restoration of brownfield land for woodland and urban greening.

Woodfuel can be produced alongside conventional timber products

Information on the practical considerations for correct choice of species for planting on greenspace sites in urban areas

Katy joined Forest Research after majoring in Fine Art at Yale University in Connecticut, USA, and then completing an MSc in Conservation and Forest Protection at Imperial College London followed by completing her PhD at Harper Adams University, while based at Alice Holt Research Station. Before you got into this...

The environmental, social and economic benefits of street trees, and examples of street tree planting initiatives

Our Quality and Environmental Standards, Certification and Accreditations Forest Research (FR) is an executive agency of the Forestry Commission, a leader in applied forest science, nationally and internationally. Our research supports the timber economy, climate change mitigation, biodiversity and understanding of people’s relationships to woods and forests. We are in...

Summary of Programme Trees, woods and forests provide multiple benefits to society and many of these are recognised in the forestry and woodland strategies spanning the next 25-50 years. In particular, there are benefits to the environment through climate change mitigation and adaptation, air quality improvement, protecting water quality and...

Greenspace sites within the UK that can be used for research projects, case studies or demonstration projects. List of case studies that illustrate the use of green infrastructure to gain social, economic and environmental benefits

Summary of Programme The programme will pursue innovative approaches to forest inventories, data acquisition, high-quality forestry statistics and forest modelling in support of forest policy and practice.  New methods will be developed and integrated to inform choices on forest capital. Sustainable forest management is only possible with the appropriate data...

This four-year project involved a partnership of research organisations and local authorities from northern France and southern England, two regions with similar production and semi-natural forest ecosystems. Forest Research helped to develop common management strategies to maximise the economic, environmental and social benefits from forests in the two regions and...