Forests in Britain produce social and environmental benefits, in addition to marketable timber outputs. These non-market benefits include open access non priced recreation, landscape amenity, biodiversity, carbon sequestration, pollution absorption, water supply and quality, and protection of archaeological artefacts. The aim of this study was to provide empirical estimates of each of these social and environmental benefits.

This was looked at in terms of:

• Marginal values, as an input into forest management.
• Their total value across forests and woodlands in Great Britain, to assess the importance of woodlands to the British economy.