Future Treescapes in Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty: Expansion and Resilience in the Chiltern Hills and Beyond

杰出自然美景地区的未来树景：奇尔特恩山及其他地区的扩张和恢复力

• 批准号: NE/Y004191/1
• 负责人: Patrick Samuel Bullard
• 金额: $ 9.74万
• 依托单位: University of Reading
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=NE%2FY004191%2F1
• 关键词: Future; Treescapes; Areas; Outstanding; Natural

'Future Treescapes in Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty' is a collaborative project that brings together the work of agricultural researchers, landscape professionals, national agencies, and local stakeholders to focus on a distinctive protected landscape: the Chiltern Hills. As in other UK AONBs, one of the area's defining features is its treescape, which is made up most characteristically of beech woodland, but includes the UK's largest coverage of native box. 88% of the Chilterns' designated priority habitats are deciduous woodland, and of the 17,588 woodland hectares within its boundaries 9,830ha (59%) are ancient. There are immediate opportunities to support the expansion of these woodlands through the planned extension of the AONB's boundaries (Natural England statutory consultation, 2024). 'Future of UK Treescapes' has three key themes: understanding holistically the form, value and function of UK woodland; exploring barriers and pathways towards its expansion; increasing the resilience of UK treescapes to global pressures. All three are currently of urgent significance to the Chilterns. For FTAONB, treescape investigators from the University of Reading have joined with the Chilterns Conservation Board to co-design a programme of knowledge exchange around these pressing challenges and opportunities. Their plan centres on a series of workshops at which both partners will introduce their wider circles of collaborators to a newly extended network of treescape researchers, landscape practitioners, and conservation/NGO professionals. The exchange of knowledge at these workshops will be broadened further, crucially, through FTAONB's consultation with hard-to-reach professionals in the agricultural and land management sectors, upon whose involvement the larger agendas of the project ultimately depend. The project is designed, furthermore, so that its landscape-specific identification of knowledge requirements and research provisions can be scaled up from the local context of the Chilterns to the larger, national context of the other 45 UK AONBs. The FTAONB project team will produce a series of statement documents and information tools at each of its collaborative stages, using an iterative process of composition, consultation and revision. Stage 1 will produce an initial research needs statement, followed by practice notes from the first workshop, elaborated into an attractive and impactful infographic document. At Stage 2 we will deploy the infographic practice notes in consultations with local stakeholders (facilitated by the CCB through their farm cluster programme), and seek to revise and extend them in the light of these conversations. At Stage 3 we will assess the scope for scaling up the practice notes to more general UK treescape contexts, finally prototyping a toolkit document of UK Treescape research applications. This toolkit will form the centrepiece of a searchable, online knowledge hub, containing educational materials on the expansion and preservation of UK treescapes, to be hosted on the Tree Council website.For the CCB, the legacy of its work on FTAONB is the material that it will feed into the Chilterns AONB 2025-2030 management plan, and the foundations it will lay for a new Chilterns Woodland Strategy document.

“杰出自然美景地区的未来树木景观”是一个合作项目，汇集了农业研究人员、景观专业人员、国家机构和当地利益相关者的工作，重点关注一个独特的受保护景观：奇尔滕山。与其他英国AONB一样，该地区的定义特征之一是其树木景观，其中最典型的是山毛榉林地，但也包括英国最大的本土盒子覆盖范围。智利88%的指定优先栖息地是落叶林地，其边界内的17，588公顷林地中有9，830公顷（59%）是古老的。有直接的机会，以支持这些林地通过AONB的边界计划的扩展（自然英格兰法定咨询，2024年）。“英国树木景观的未来”有三个关键主题：全面了解英国林地的形式，价值和功能;探索其扩张的障碍和途径;提高英国树木景观对全球压力的适应力。这三个问题目前对智利具有紧迫意义。对于FTAONB，来自阅读大学的树木景观研究人员与智利保护委员会合作，共同设计了一个围绕这些紧迫挑战和机遇的知识交流计划。他们的计划集中在一系列研讨会上，双方将向更广泛的合作者介绍新扩展的树木景观研究人员，景观从业者和保护/非政府组织专业人员网络。这些讲习班上的知识交流将进一步扩大，关键是通过FTAONB与农业和土地管理部门难以接触的专业人员的协商，项目的更大议程最终取决于他们的参与。此外，该项目的设计，使其知识需求和研究规定的具体企业识别可以从智利的地方背景下扩大到更大的，其他45个英国AONB的国家背景。FTAONB项目团队将在每个协作阶段使用组成、咨询和修订的迭代流程制作一系列声明文件和信息工具。第一阶段将产生一个初步的研究需求声明，然后是第一次研讨会的实践说明，详细阐述成一个有吸引力和有影响力的信息图表文件。在第二阶段，我们将与当地利益相关者协商（由CCB通过其农场集群计划提供便利），部署信息图表实践说明，并根据这些对话寻求修改和扩展它们。在第三阶段，我们将评估扩大实践说明的范围，以更一般的英国treescape上下文，最后原型英国Treescape研究应用的工具包文件。该工具包将成为可搜索的在线知识中心的核心，包含有关英国树木景观扩展和保护的教育材料，将托管在树木理事会网站上。对于CCB来说，其FTAONB工作的遗产是它将提供给ChildrenaAONB 2025-2030管理计划的材料，以及它将为新的ChildrenaWoodland Strategy文件奠定的基础。