Pests and diseases are an existential threat to trees in forests and woodlands. There is, therefore, a pressing need to use ecological and bioeconomic models to inform forest managers on control and mitigation strategies. For example, the incidence of Dothistroma needle blight in the UK has...

This study assesses harvest levels compatible with the reference levels for forest management sinks (FRLs) within the EU, the UK, and Norway (EU + UK + N). A detailed examination of the harvest data and the National Forest Accounting Plans of the countries within this region reveals that the...

Woodlands provide a variety of market and non-market benefits, but deforestation arising from pressures on landowners to clear forested areas for other land uses may cause irrevocable loss of these benefits. Landowners need to be encouraged to create or retain wooded areas on their land, and manage ...

This article presents a case study of Edward Barham's Hole Park Estate, which was awarded a Certificate of Merit in the RFS Excellence in Forestry Silviculture Awards 2019 through planting Cricket bat willow (Salix alba var. caerulea) in his grazing marshland. The choice for Cricket bat willow, its ...

Increasingly, research funders are seeking evidence of the non-academic impacts of research, yet there is confusion as to what is meant by impact generation, and how it can be facilitated, captured and shared. This paper presents a framework to evaluate research impact, which we have piloted on 12...

This paper reviews current knowledge on the role of trees and woodland in reducing flood risk and describes the key factors affecting the ability of woodland to reduce flood flows. Two case studies in England are used to highlight the complexities involved, and recent progress is described in...

The future provision of forest goods and ecosystem services is dependent, among other factors, on climate change impacts, forest management, and response to forest policies. To assess policy implementation targets for Scotland's National Forest Estate under climate change, we simulated forest...

This paper discusses how a multi-use approach in a former commercially managed plantation can be productive, biodiverse, lovely to walk through and also pay its way. This approach is exemplified at the Sawyer Ground Plantation in the UK with the following objectives, which dovetail into one another ...

From the 1940s to the 1980s large areas of conifer forest were planted on Scottish peatland. Many of these plantations are now reaching harvesting age and critical questions surround what should be done with them next. This paper reviews and summarises some key issues, outstanding questions and...

Many ways of pricing atmospheric CO₂ fluxes exist. Among them is valuing social costs resulting from climate change, which have complex time profiles. Long-term cost streams are normally capitalized at the prevailing social discount rate. Controversy attends whether that rate should decline through ...