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    Tanau Gwyllt yng Nghymru – Crynodeb Gweithredol
    Lead Author: Matthew Jollands
    (Wildfires in Wales – Executive Summary). Summary of this project that sought to characterise and understand the problem of wildfires in the South Wales Valleys region and to offer recommendations for appropriate management and policy responses. By Matthew Jollands, Jake Morris and Andy Moffat. Related pages People, trees and woodlands Social forestry research
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    Volunteering in and for Scotland’s forests
    Lead Author: Liz O’Brien
    Report investigating the current opportunities for volunteering, where and how these operate and any barriers to developing volunteering or offering further opportunities. April 2011. By: Liz O’Brien and Mariella Marzano. Related pages People, trees and woodlands Social forestry research
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    Volunteering and Forestry Commission Wales: Scope, opportunities, and barriers
    Lead Author: Bianca Ambrose-Oji
    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. Related pages People, trees and woodlands Social forestry research
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    [Archive] Forest Research Annual Report and Accounts 2010-2011
    Lead Author: Forest Research
    This report is available to download here or to order in hardcopy from The Stationery Office (TSO) (Phone: 0870 600 5522; www.tsoshop.co.uk)
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    2011 – Health benefits of street trees
    Lead Author: Vadims Sarajevs
    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. Related pages People, trees and woodlands Social forestry research
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    Costs and revenues of transformation to continuous cover forestry
    Lead Author: Owen Davies
    Study modelling silvicultural options with Sitka spruce showing how transformation to continuous cover forestry can be a good economic option compared with clearfelling and replanting. This is accompanied by an Analysis spreadsheet (MS Excel®-3813 KB) that enables practitioners and policymakers to change input costs, product specifications, roadside prices and the discount rate to suit their local […]
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    Woods and forests in British society: progress in research and practice
    Lead Author: Bianca Ambrose-Oji
    By Bianca Ambrose-Oji and Karen Fancett (Eds.). Papers presented at the Trees and Forests in British society conference in April 2010. Forest Research Monograph: 3ISBN 978-0-85538-828-7 Related pages People, trees and woodlands Social forestry research
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    Woodland for Water: Woodland measures for meeting Water Framework Directive objectives
    Lead Author: Tom Nisbet
    This report considers the key issues relating to woodland and the Water Framework Directive (WFD) in England and Wales, but has application to Scotland and Northern Ireland. By Tom Nisbet, Martyn Silgram, Nadeem Shah, Katrina Morrow & Samantha Broadmeadow. Forest Research Monograph: 4ISBN 978-0-85538-830-0 Related pages Forest hydrology Soil sustainability
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    Short rotation forestry: review of growth and environmental impacts
    Lead Author: Helen McKay
    By Helen McKay (Ed.) This review updates the Hardcastle review (2006) of the environmental impacts of growing fast growing broadleaved species as short rotation forestry in Britain and where possible strengthens it using primary unpublished data. Forest Research Monograph: 2ISBN 978-0-85538-827-0
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    Sitka spruce (Picea sitchensis) forests in Atlantic Europe: forest management approach and projected climate change

     Mason, W.L. & Perks, M. (2011). Sitka spruce (Picea sitchensis) forests in Atlantic Europe: forest management approach and projected climate change. Scandinavian J. Forest Research. 26, 72-81.
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    The potential for Eucalyptus as a wood fuel in the UK. Applied Energy
    Lead Author: A. D. Leslie
    Leslie, A.D., Mencuccini, M. & Perks, M.P. (2011). The potential for Eucalyptus as a wood fuel in the UK. Applied Energy, 89, 176-182.
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    Access for all? Barriers to accessing woodlands in the UK?
    Lead Author: Forest Research
    Legacy socio-economic research relating to: Well-being and quality of life Access for all? Barriers to accessing woodlands in the UK? (PDF-77K) Access our current and recent socio-economic research.