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The page summarises findings from the ‘Using social approaches in coal ash remediation’ (RECOAL) project, funded by the EU’s Sixth Framework Programme (FP6).

A series of workshops, public discussions and forest walks, facilitated by environmental artists, to explore the cultural values associated with the Black Wood of Rannoch.

The page summarises the main findings and outputs from the ‘Sustainability impact assessment tools for multifunctional land use’ (SENSOR) project, funded by the EU’s Sixth Framework Programme (FP6).

Supporting public engagement in forest governance and management

The purpose of the Grow Wild evaluation is to assess the impact on the people participating in two different kinds of activities, that make up the Grow Wild project.

This Research Report looks at a broad range of urban forest-based ecosystem services and disservices and, using a literature review, links their provision with four aspects of urban forests (physical scale, physical structure and context in terms of location and proximity to people and land use and ownership). A key...

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

Information on the development pressures, practical considerations, policy and issues of greenspace provision in urban areas

Information on the use waste materials in soil in greenspace projects and practical considerations in the urban context

Mariella Marzano

This is one of a series of papers which form part of a study to consider the scale, location and nature of forestry expansion in Britain.

Overview of Forest Research's projects for the quantification and valuation of ecosystem service provision of urban trees