Connected treescapes: a portfolio approach for delivering multiple public benefits from UK treescapes

我们的项目将解决在提供公共利益从英国treescapes企业级伙伴关系的作用。它将显示决策者和那些负责treescapes可以确保这些好处可以在未来的背景下，越来越多的不确定性与一系列的人为和环境压力。我们将重点关注与当前树木保护政策目标相关的三个公共利益：（i）生物多样性，生态系统功能和自然恢复;（ii）自然连通性，心理健康和福祉;（iii）文化和遗产利益。我们将结合联合收割机英国层面的分析，重点关注城乡连续体中的五个社区森林，这些森林具有巨大的潜在社会效益，但面临相当大的环境压力。我们将以连通性和连通性为主题，整合我们在生物多样性、健康和福祉以及文化和遗产方面的工作。景观连通性是一个重要的概念，支持加强树木景观，促进生物多样性和自然恢复，尽管它也会增加对病虫害的脆弱性。连通性对于认识与树木和林地的文化联系以及权力和所有权的不平等至关重要，这些都塑造了英国树景的历史，并为未来的树景发展提供了机会和限制。与树木景观的联系对心理健康和福祉也很重要，并作为改善亲自然行为的工具。通过六个相互联系的工作包，我们将整合历史和生态方法与应用健康科学和经济分析。我们将联合收割机经验数据收集与现有数据的建模相结合，以提供对英国树景管理决策如何形成的新理解，并受到土地使用和所有权历史，管理传统和对树景不断变化的期望的约束。我们将通过告知如何平衡这些预期的未来利益与风险和不确定性，为英国政策目标的实现和公共利益的实现做出贡献。政策雄心的规模意味着它们只能通过不同土地所有者之间更协调的管理来实现。因此，我们将探讨分析如何管理决策treescapes考虑到各种生态，社会经济和文化背景，提供一系列的公共利益在景观层面，结合土地所有者的相互依赖性和潜在的竞争目标。我们的工作将展示如何树木逃逸的决定和土地所有者之间的合作可以通过不同的政策和监管机制的影响。在这样做的过程中，它将为政府激励措施的设计提供信息，以加强森林一级的协作管理，这将减少不确定性，并加强未来的连通性和树木逃逸的好处。我们的项目将与案例研究地点和英国层面的利益相关者密切合作，让他们参与共同设计我们的研究过程和共同开发成果。这些产出将包括一个多组成部分的工具包，其中将包括政策类型的简报、历史叙述、说明性案例研究、Go Jauntly应用程序上突出历史、生物多样性和连通性的当地步行链接，以及一个分析性决策支持工具，用于设想树景“组合”中不同利益之间的协同增效和权衡。该工具包将告知政策制定者，地方当局，农村社区和私人业主关于树木景观管理的公共利益。我们的项目涉及英国树木景观计划未来的所有三个主题，并将导致管理当前树木景观的建议，并创造未来的树木景观，生物多样性和弹性，并能为当代和后代带来广泛的经济和社会效益。

Our project will address the role of landscape-level partnerships in delivering public benefits from UK treescapes. It will show how decision-makers and those responsible for treescapes can ensure that these benefits can be secured for the future, in the context of increasing uncertainty associated with a range of anthropogenic and environmental stressors. We will focus on three public benefits that link to current policy ambitions for treescapes: (i) biodiversity, ecosystem function and nature recovery; (ii) nature connectedness, mental health and wellbeing; and (iii) cultural and heritage benefits. We will combine UK-level analysis with a focus on five community forests in the rural-urban continuum, where treescapes have great potential societal benefits but face considerable environmental pressures.We will use connectivity and connectedness as themes to integrate our work across biodiversity, health and wellbeing, and culture and heritage. Landscape connectivity is an important concept underpinning the enhancement of treescapes for biodiversity and nature recovery, although it can also increase vulnerability to pests and diseases. Connectivity is crucial for recognizing cultural ties to trees and woodlands, and inequalities in power and ownership, which have shaped the history of UK treescapes, and provide opportunities and constraints around future treescape development. Connectedness with treescapes is also important for mental health and wellbeing, and as a vehicle to improve pro-nature behaviours. Through six inter-linked work packages, we will integrate historical and ecological approaches with applied health science and economic analysis. We will combine empirical data collection with modelling of existing data to deliver new understanding of how UK treescape management decisions are shaped and constrained by histories of land use and ownership, traditions of management, and changing expectations of treescapes. We will contribute to the success of landscape-level treescapes in delivering UK policy objectives and providing public benefits by informing on how to balance these expected future benefits with risk and uncertainty in their delivery. The scale of policy ambitions means they can only be met through more coordinated management across different landowners. We will therefore explore analytically how management decisions for treescapes take account of the various ecological, socio-economic and cultural contexts to deliver a range of public benefits at landscape level, incorporating the interdependencies and potentially competing objectives of landowners. Our work will show how treescape decisions and collaboration between landowners can be influenced by different policy and regulatory mechanisms. In doing so, it will inform the design of government incentives for enhancing landscape-level collaborative management that will reduce uncertainty and enhance connectivity and benefits from treescapes in the future. Our project will work closely with stakeholders in the case study sites and at UK level, involving them in co-designing our research process and co-developing outputs. These outputs will include a multi-component toolkit, which will include policy-type briefs, historical narratives, illustrative case studies, links to local walks on the Go Jauntly app that highlight histories, biodiversity and connectedness, and an analytical decision support tool for visioning the synergies and trade-offs between different benefits within a treescape 'portfolio'. The toolkit will inform policy-makers, local authorities, rural communities and private owners on treescape management for public benefits.Our project addresses all three themes of the Future of UK Treescapes programme, and will lead to recommendations for managing current treescapes, and creating future ones, that are biodiverse and resilient, and can deliver a wide range of economic and societal benefits for current and future generations.