Improving public engagement for maximised benefits of forest and woodland expansion and creation

这次知识交流将汇集几个英国未来树木项目的研究成果，并将其应用于一个森林和林地创造项目——第四气候森林（FCF），该项目将作为一个案例研究，以提高对如何通过更好的公众参与和参与来最大化森林和林地扩张和创造效益的理解。我们将综合Treescapes项目Connected Treescapes、TreE_PlaNat、AFFORE3ST和Branching Out的研究，并将其应用于社区参与研讨会，目的是开发和测试新的动态方法，让当地社区参与植树和林地创造和扩展。我们将为政策制定者和从业者提供实践笔记，为公众提供资源，将利用Treescapes的研究成果，最大限度地提高森林和林地创造和扩张的效益。FCF是苏格兰福斯谷地区一个为期10年的新项目，旨在增加冠层覆盖、森林面积和连通性，为减缓气候变化提供碳储存，支持生物多样性和提供多样化的生态系统服务。它以社区为中心，旨在为当地人实施并与当地人一起实施。FCF是一个理想的案例研究，因为它的区域规模相对较大，涵盖了不同的社区，参与实施的合作伙伴范围广泛，使我们能够探索各种观点和知识类型，并产生广泛应用的结果。最大限度地发挥植树的效益可能是困难的，虽然森林创造项目渴望有效的社区参与，但当地的支持可能是可变的——森林和林地的创造可能涉及彻底的景观改变，这可能导致与当地人民的冲突。如果改进与当地人协商和让当地人参与的做法，这是可以避免的。在这个项目中，我们将与FCF和林地信托基金、苏格兰林业、斯特林和克拉克曼南郡议会的合作伙伴合作，了解与森林和林地创造相关的利益和挑战，以满足不同的公众和社区需求，包括减少污染暴露和福利福利。我们将与当地社区团体合作，并将探索新的沟通方式，以了解和整合不同的公众观点。为了实现这一目标，我们将：1)促进一个初步的研讨会，以FCF和合作伙伴为例，综合所有合作的Treescapes项目的研究，并了解如何最好地将其应用于造林项目的需求。2)与当地社区一起举办3次实地研讨会，在研究人员、项目合作伙伴和当地人民之间交流关于森林和林地扩展和创造的知识和观点。这些工作坊都将有一个主题（历史、生物多样性和多重利益；城市环境中的服务提供；文化和社会联系），由主要的Treescapes项目指导。3)与所有合作者、项目合作伙伴和利益相关者一起举办最后一次研讨会，综合和实地研讨会的结果将被总结并最终确定为3个产出的计划。我们的研究结果将通过两个练习笔记传达：1。管理森林和林地扩张和创造的利益和挑战；社区参与的最佳做法，并通过网站和信息传单，介绍为当地社区创造和扩展林地的好处。该项目将增加参与Treescapes项目的影响和覆盖面，为它们提供与公众接触的新机会，并将其成果应用于新的区域范例，同时直接影响地方和国家层面的决策者和从业者。

This knowledge exchange will bring together the research of several Future of UK Treescapes projects and apply it to a forest and woodland creation project - The Forth Climate Forest (FCF), which will act as a case study, to improve understanding of how to maximise the benefits of forest and woodland expansion and creation through better public engagement and involvement. We will synthesise the research of the Treescapes projects Connected Treescapes, TreE_PlaNat, AFFORE3ST and Branching Out and apply them to community engagement workshops, with the aim of developing and testing new and dynamic ways to involve local communities in tree planting and woodland creation and expansion. We will produce practice notes for policy makers and practitioners and resources for the public will apply Treescapes research to maximise the benefits gained from forest and woodland creation and expansion. FCF is a new, 10-year project in the Forth Valley area of Scotland aiming to increase canopy cover, forest area and connectivity, provide carbon storage for climate change mitigation, support biodiversity and provide diverse ecosystem services. It centres on communities, aiming to be implemented both for and with local people. FCF is an ideal case study because of its relatively large, regional scale, the diverse communities its range encompasses and because of the range of partners involved in its implementation, allowing us to explore a variety of perspectives and knowledge types and to produce results with broad application.Maximising the benefits of tree planting can be difficult and while forest creation projects aspire to effective community engagement, local support can be variable - forest and woodland creation can involve radical landscape change, and this can lead to conflict with local people. This could be avoided if practices to consult with and involve locals were improved. In this project, we will work with the FCF and partners in The Woodland Trust, Scottish Forestry and Stirling and Clackmannanshire councils to understand the benefits and challenges associated with forest and woodland creation for different public and community needs, including reductions in pollution exposure and well-being benefits. We will work with local community groups and will explore new ways of communicating to understand and integrate diverse public perspectives. To achieve this, we will:1) facilitate an initial workshop to synthesise research across the collaborating Treescapes projects and understand how best to apply this to the needs of afforestation projects, using the FCF and partners as example stakeholders.2) run 3 field-based workshops with local communities where knowledge and perspectives on forest and woodland expansion and creation will be exchanged between researchers, project partners and local people. These workshops will each have a main theme (Histories, biodiversity and multiple benefits; Service provision in urban environments; Cultural and social connections), as directed by the leading Treescapes project.3) host a final workshop with all collaborators, projects partners and stakeholders where the results of the synthesis and field workshops will be summarized and finalised into a plan for 3 outputs.Our findings will be communicated through two practice notes on: 1. managing benefits and challenges of forest and woodland expansion and creation and 2. best practices for community engagement and via a website and information leaflet on the benefits of woodland creation and expansion made for and with the local community. This project will increase the impact and reach of the participating Treescapes projects by providing them with new opportunities to engage with members of the public and to apply their results to a new regional example while directly influencing policy makers and practitioners at local and national scales.