Connected treescapes: a portfolio approach for delivering multiple public benefits from UK treescapes in the rural-urban continuum

我们的项目将解决景观层面的伙伴关系在从英国脱险中提供公共利益方面的作用。它将表明，在与一系列人为和环境应激源相关的不确定性日益增加的背景下，决策者和那些对逃生负有责任的人如何确保未来能够获得这些好处。我们将把重点放在与当前森林逃生政策目标相联系的三个公共利益上：(1)生物多样性、生态系统功能和自然恢复；(2)自然连通性、心理健康和福祉；(3)文化和遗产利益。我们将结合英国层面的分析，重点关注城乡连续体中的五个社区森林，这些森林逃生具有巨大的潜在社会效益，但面临着巨大的环境压力。我们将以互联互通为主题，整合我们跨越生物多样性、健康和福祉以及文化和遗产的工作。景观连通性是加强树木逃生以促进生物多样性和自然恢复的一个重要概念，尽管它也会增加对病虫害的脆弱性。连通性对于认识到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，这些因素塑造了英国树丛的历史，并为未来树丛的发展提供了机会和限制。与逃生的联系对精神健康和幸福也很重要，并作为改善亲自然行为的一种工具。通过六个相互关联的工作包，我们将把历史和生态方法与应用健康科学和经济分析结合起来。我们将把经验数据收集与现有数据建模相结合，以提供新的理解，了解英国树形逃生管理决策是如何受到土地使用和所有权历史、管理传统以及对树形逃生不断变化的预期的影响和制约的。我们将通过告知如何在这些预期的未来利益与交付过程中的风险和不确定性之间取得平衡，为成功实现英国政策目标和提供公共利益做出贡献。政策野心的规模意味着，只有通过不同土地所有者之间更协调的管理才能实现这些雄心。因此，我们将分析性地探讨如何在考虑到各种生态、社会经济和文化背景的情况下作出林间逃生的管理决策，以在景观水平上提供一系列公共利益，并纳入土地所有者的相互依存和潜在的相互竞争的目标。我们的工作将展示不同的政策和监管机制如何影响土地所有者之间的逃生决策和合作。在这样做的过程中，它将为政府加强景观级协作管理的激励措施的设计提供信息，这些激励措施将减少不确定性，并加强连通性，并在未来从树木逃生中受益。我们的项目将与案例研究现场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并共同开发成果。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、指向Go Jaunly应用程序的当地步行的链接，该应用突出了历史、生物多样性和关联性，以及一个分析性决策支持工具，用于展望Treaway“投资组合”中不同利益之间的协同效应和权衡。该工具包将为政策制定者、地方当局、农村社区和私人业主提供关于为公共利益进行树形逃生管理的信息。我们的项目涉及英国未来树形逃生方案的所有三个主题，并将产生关于管理当前树形逃生和创造未来树形逃生的建议，这些树形逃生具有生物多样性和弹性，可以为当代和子孙后代带来广泛的经济和社会利益。

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.