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The Social and Environmental Benefits of Forests in Great Britain: Main Report

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.

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The Social and Environmental Benefits of Forests in Great Britain: Recreation Report

The objective of this report is to find the total and marginal recreational value of British forests.

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The Social and Environmental Benefits of Forests in Great Britain: Water Report

The objective of this report is to assess, and quantify as far as possible, the impact of forestry on costs and of water supply and water quality.

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Valuing Forest Recreation Activities 2006: Final Phase 2 Report

This research aims to estimate the local economic (income and employment) impacts of forest recreation, to estimate changes in forest visitors’ welfare associated with improvements to the recreational facilities provided in forests and to examine how the recreational values vary across different forest users and uses.

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Valuing Forest Recreation Activities 2006: Phase 1 Report

This research aims to estimate the effect on consumer surplus of changes in the provision of key forest recreation facilities, to examine the heterogeneity of recreational values across different forest users and uses and to estimate the economic impact of forest recreation activities.

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Valuing Forest Recreation Activities 2006: Summary

The study looks specifically at recreational users of forests, with the first stage focusing on the local economic impacts of visitors.

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Valuing Forest Recreation Activities 2006: Technical Annex

This technical annex provides further details of the theory, methodologies, and analysis used in the Forestry Commission's commissioned report 'Valuing Forest Recreation Activities'.

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Valuing the Social and Environmental Contribution of Woodlands and Trees in England, Scotland and Wales: Research Note

This Research Note is based on a review by the University of Exeter that evaluated existing knowledge on valuing the social and environmental contributions of British trees and woodlands.

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Valuing the Social and Environmental Contribution of Woodlands and Trees in England, Scotland and Wales: Research Report

This report, and accompanying research note and woodland valuation tool (and accompanying guidance), provides an assessment of current knowledge of economic values applied to forestry. It also provides a narrative of forestry’s role in ‘the natural factory’, delivering a wide range of outcomes for businesses and society.

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Valuing the Social and Environmental Contribution of Woodlands and Trees in England, Scotland and Wales: Woodland Valuation Tool

This document explains and assists in the use of the Woodland Valuation Tool.

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Woodland Valuation Tool

The Woodland Valuation Tool (WVT) was developed in 2015 (and updated in 2018) as part of the Scoping study on valuing the social and environmental benefits of trees and woodlands in England, Scotland and Wales, funded by the Forestry Commission.

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