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This project is led by Forest Research and is funded through the Future Proofing Plant Health programme. The research is exploring what policy options may incentivise or support land managers to act for tree health and increase the resilience of their woodlands and trees. Conducted as action research, the project is helping to develop and support an evolving co-design process to meet high level policy objectives linked with the Future Farming and Countryside Programme, and to achieving the objectives set out in Defra’s Tree Health Resilience Strategy.
The research objectives have varied through the different phases of the co-design process. During the early scoping and initial policy option co-design work (2018-2021) the main objectives were to understand:
During the Tree Health Pilot evaluation phase (2021-2024) collaborative and user focused research is assessing:
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