Creative Adaptive Solutions for Treescapes of Rivers (CASTOR)

河流树景的创意自适应解决方案（CASTOR）

• 批准号: NE/V021117/1
• 负责人: Matthew Dennis
• 金额: $ 254.03万
• 依托单位: University of Manchester
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2021 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=NE%2FV021117%2F1
• 关键词: Creative; Adaptive; Solutions; Treescapes; Rivers

Critical interventions are required if the UK is to reach its afforestation target of 17% by 2050. The CASTOR project both elucidates and provides solutions for the challenges that will be faced, with a specific focus on riparian landscapes in northern England. Our focus on riparian treescapes as critical pathways to reforestation takes advantage of these as natural confluences, capitalizing on three key opportunities: 1. Extent: there are over 240,000 km of rivers and streams in England, meaning the potential for restoring riparian woodland presents a substantial opportunity for meeting the UK government's goal of 17% tree cover by 2050 coupled with associated increases in carbon storage and sequestration, water quality amelioration, habitat creation and flood prevention. 2. Restoration: although not all rivers will be suitable for reforestation, given the levels of degradation of riparian zones, these habitats present a major opportunity for large-scale environmental restoration and rewilding. A focus on catchment dynamics and connectivity offers a key opportunity for the development of nature-based solutions to ongoing flood risk for an increasing number of communities. 3. Networks for nature recovery: riparian zones are a key ecological component of resilient landscapes. For example, riparian habitats often have greater species richness than adjacent land-uses. Riparian forests have the ability to connect woodland habitats, providing a blueprint for a Nature Recovery Network. These synergistic properties and our integrated approach directly and creatively address the government's 'Ten Point Plan for a Green Industrial Revolution' highlighting the need for a 'joined-up' approach to land management and nature recovery.The CASTOR will co-produce knowledge and identify pathways to resilient riparian treescapes by: 1. mapping the potential for riparian treescape expansion in the UK and identifying ecological, historical and socio-economic connections associated with riparian corridors. 2. mapping literary, historical, ecological, and cultural heritage values in the context of expanding/changing treescapes (and perceptions of "wildness"). 3. exploring the use of Social Arts Practice and participatory methods to co-produce knowledge on multi-scalar perceptions, values and motivations towards riparian treescape corridors. 4. critically evaluating financial incentives and opportunities for stakeholders; engaging with land-managers in rural areas. 5. developing alternative scenarios (explored through virtual reality, arts installations, workshops and web-based GIS) related to natural and assisted regeneration (rewilding) of river corridors. 6. developing spatial models (of connectivity, hydrology, species diversity, regeneration stage) to assess the resilience of riparian treescapes, as self-organizing systems, and the landscapes and communities they connect. 7. exploring through engagement with arts practitioners (e.g. creative writing, artists in residence, etc.) the community connections - temporal/spatial - to riparian woodlands. Our novel interdisciplinary perspectives and technology will deliver: 1) a valuation of riparian treescapes for direct incorporation into the public money for public goods framework; 2) critical examination of socio-hydro-ecological feedbacks to underpin the recovery of degraded riparian landscapes, leveraging rewilding approaches to increase riparian biodiversity and carbon storage; and 3) an emergent vision that aligns long-term cultural values with community perspectives to ensure the future of UK treescapes. These outcomes will invigorate community engagement and recovery of riparian landscapes and ecosystems within a model that will be applicable throughout the UK.

如果英国要在2050年前达到17%的造林目标，就需要采取关键干预措施。CASTOR项目阐明了将面临的挑战并提供了解决方案，特别关注英格兰北方的河岸景观。我们专注于河岸树木景观作为重新造林的关键途径，利用这些自然汇流，利用三个关键机会：1。范围：英格兰有超过240，000公里的河流和溪流，这意味着恢复河岸林地的潜力为实现英国政府到2050年17%的树木覆盖率的目标提供了巨大的机会，同时增加了碳储存和封存，水质改善，栖息地创造和洪水预防。2.恢复：尽管并非所有河流都适合重新造林，但鉴于河岸带的退化程度，这些生境为大规模环境恢复和野化提供了一个重大机会。对流域动态和连通性的关注为越来越多的社区制定基于自然的解决方案以应对持续的洪水风险提供了一个关键机会。3.自然恢复网络：河岸带是弹性景观的关键生态组成部分。例如，河岸生境往往比邻近的土地利用具有更丰富的物种。河岸森林有能力连接林地栖息地，为自然恢复网络提供蓝图。这些协同特性和我们的综合方法直接和创造性地回应了政府的“绿色工业革命十点计划”，该计划强调了土地管理和自然恢复“联合”方法的必要性。绘制英国河岸树景扩展的潜力，并确定与河岸走廊相关的生态，历史和社会经济联系。2.在不断扩大/变化的树木景观（以及对“野性”的看法）的背景下，绘制文学、历史、生态和文化遗产价值。3.探索使用社会艺术实践和参与式方法，共同产生关于河岸树木景观走廊的多尺度感知，价值观和动机的知识。4.批判性地评估利益攸关方的财政激励措施和机会;与农村地区的土地管理者接触。5.开发与河流走廊的自然再生和辅助再生（野化）有关的替代方案（通过虚拟现实、艺术装置、讲习班和基于网络的地理信息系统进行探索）。6.开发空间模型（连通性、水文学、物种多样性、再生阶段），以评估作为自组织系统的河岸树木景观的复原力，以及它们所连接的景观和社区。7.通过与艺术从业者的接触进行探索（例如创意写作，驻场艺术家等）群落与河岸林地的时空联系。我们新颖的跨学科视角和技术将提供：1）直接纳入公共资金公共产品框架的河岸树木景观的评估; 2）社会-水文-生态反馈的批判性检查，以支持退化河岸景观的恢复，利用野化方法增加河岸生物多样性和碳储存;和3）一个新兴的愿景，使长期的文化价值观与社区观点保持一致，以确保英国树木景观的未来。这些成果将激励社区参与和恢复河岸景观和生态系统的模式，将适用于整个英国。

项目成果

Participatory Mapping

参与式绘图

• DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7839776
• 发表时间: 2023
• 作者: Denwood T