Right tree, right place, right reason: developing a sustainable urban forest

城市森林是人们生活中不可或缺的一部分，提供了至关重要的环境和社会文化效益。城市环境中的树木存在于从单个花园、行道树到林地的绿色和灰色空间的拼凑中。所有与构成城市森林的树木互动的个人、社区、私营部门、第三部门组织和公共机构都是城市森林的利益相关者。因此，当存在管理决策的竞争目标和驱动因素时，任何涉众的管理或为涉众的管理都是具有挑战性的。这些多方利益相关者之间的知识交流（KE）对于探索可持续维护和增强城市森林的挑战和机遇至关重要。该奖学金将促进城市森林利益相关者之间的可持续发展，为更好地了解管理者面临的挑战、分享最佳实践以及确定需要解决的最紧迫的知识差距提供途径，以实现可持续的城市森林管理。来自公共部门、第三部门、社区、研究机构和学术界的主要城市森林利益相关者已承诺参与本奖学金提议的KE（见支持信）。该奖学金分为四个工作包（WP），旨在为当前和未来的城市社区提供关键的KE和影响，以应对维护或增强可持续城市森林的挑战和机遇。在第一次会议上，我将对可持续城市森林管理的挑战和机遇进行快速审查。这将为与利益攸关方举行的知识发现日提供信息，讨论和发展他们在可持续城市森林管理方面面临的主要挑战和机遇。这些讨论的目的是围绕四个主题进行整合，这些主题将成为奖学金期间举办的四个专题讲习班的重点（例如，城市树种的气候适应能力）。随后的专题研讨会将侧重于每个具体主题，确定最佳做法，分享知识，讨论挑战和确定知识差距。在每次研讨会之后，利益相关者将与相关学者共同设计一个试点研究项目，以解决这些关键知识差距之一（由谢菲尔德大学资助的试点项目-见支持信）。在WP2项目中，我将与谢菲尔德市议会合作，设计并运营一个公民科学项目，旨在了解当地种子收获和直接种植的潜力，并将其作为可持续林地创造的一种工具。它还将使当地社区参与到城市森林中。公民科学家也将参与监测种植的种子。在第三阶段工作中，我将采用一种在线参与式制图方法，使当地社区能够对城市树木的种植地点和树种做出选择。树种选择将在知识发现日（WP1）期间与利益相关者进行鉴定。这将用于通知谢菲尔德市议会林地创造和街道树木战略。在WP4中，我将与相关利益攸关方共同开发开放获取资源，向城市森林中更广泛的利益攸关方通报和分享知识。每个资源的最终格式将在KE奖学金期间与利益相关方确定，例如，如何编写指南，视频资源，种植指南。我将与利益相关者一起主持一个反馈和水平扫描活动，以评估奖学金的影响，并对可持续城市森林的未来挑战进行水平扫描。提供可持续的城市森林对于健康和有弹性的城市环境至关重要。在此奖学金计划中，多方利益相关者聚集在一起，将在奖学金期间产生社会和环境效益。

The urban forest is integral to the lives of people providing critical environmental and socio-cultural benefits. Trees within the urban environment exist across a patchwork of green and greyspaces managed at scales from individual gardens, street trees up to woodlands. All individuals, communities, private sector, third sector organisations and public bodies who interact with the trees that make up the urban forest are its stakeholders. Thus, management by, or for, any stakeholder is challenging when there are competing goals and drivers for management decisions. Knowledge exchange (KE) between these multiple stakeholders is crucial to explore the challenges to and opportunities for sustainable maintenance and enhancement of the urban forest. This fellowship will facilitate KE between the stakeholders in the urban forest to provide a pathway to better understand the challenges faced by managers, share best practice, and identify the most pressing knowledge gaps that need addressing to enable sustainable urban forest management. Key urban forest stakeholders have committed to take part in the KE proposed in this fellowship from the public sector, the third sector, the community, research organisations, and academia (see letters of support). This fellowship is organised into four work packages (WP) and is designed to deliver crucial KE and impact on the challenges and opportunities to maintenance or enhancement of a sustainable urban forest for current and future urban communities.In WP1 I will conduct a rapid review of the challenges and opportunities for sustainable urban forest management. This will inform a Knowledge Discover Day held with stakeholders to discuss and develop the key challenges and opportunities they are experiencing in sustainable urban forest management. The aim of these discussions will be to coalesce around four themes that will be the focus of four thematic workshops held during the fellowship (e.g. climate resilience of urban tree species). The subsequent thematic workshops will focus on each specific topic, identifying best practice, sharing knowledge discussing challenges and identifying knowledge-gaps. After each workshop stakeholders will co-design a pilot research project with relevant academics to address one of these key knowledge gaps (pilot projects funded by University of Sheffield - see letter of support). In WP2 I will partner with Sheffield City Council to design and run a citizen science project with the aim of understanding the potential for local seed harvest and direct planting as a tool for sustainable woodland creation. It will also engage the local community with the urban forest. The citizen scientists will also participate in monitoring of the planted seeds. In WP3 I will use an online participatory mapping approach to enable local communities in to map out preferences for where urban trees should be planted and what tree species. The tree species selection will be identified with stakeholders during the Knowledge Discovery Day (WP1). This will be used to inform Sheffield City Councils woodland creation and Street Tree Strategies. In WP4 I will co-develop open access resources with relevant stakeholders to inform and share knowledge with the wider stakeholders in the urban forest. The final format of each resource will be determined with the stakeholders during the KE fellowship, for example, written how to guides, video resources, planting guidance. I will host a feedback and horizon scanning event with the stakeholders to assess the impact of the fellowship and to horizon scan the future challenges to a sustainable urban forest. The provision of a sustainable urban forest is critical to a healthy and resilient urban environment. The KE planned in this fellowship, with the multiple stakeholders assembled, will deliver societal and environmental benefit during the fellowship.