Imperial College London

Susanne Raum

Faculty of Natural SciencesCentre for Environmental Policy

Visiting Researcher
 
 
 
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Contact

 

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Location

 

50716 Prince's GardensSouth Kensington Campus

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Summary

 

Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@inbook{Raum:2021,
author = {Raum, S},
booktitle = {European Forests Our Cultural Heritage.},
editor = {Johann and Kusmin and Woitsch},
pages = {85--106},
publisher = {Nová tiskárna Pelhimov and Institute of Ethnology of the Czech Academy of Sciences},
title = {Afforestation: UK Forestry Policy in Response to Changing Resource Needs},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/92987},
year = {2021}
}

RIS format (EndNote, RefMan)

TY  - CHAP
AB - Forestry in the United Kingdom (UK) has been subject to a series of policy changes since the early 1900s. At the time, the country’s forest cover was down to an estimated 4.7%, which created dangerous dependencies on the timber supply of other countries, especially during World War I. In response, the UK government embarked on an intensive afforestation programme. The aim of this chapter is to provide a better understanding of the challenges involved in re-storing a key natural resource, using forests in the UK as a case study example. Through a comprehensive review of scholarly literature, documents, and reports, this work examines the UK Government’s afforestation programme, which began in 1919 and held sway until the 1970s. This has since been overlain with ideas about multi-functionality and sustainable forest management and, more recently, a renewed emphasis on forest expansion. The findings offer important insights into the long-standing impact of natural resource depletion and the efforts needed to undo, at least some of the damage.
AU - Raum,S
EP - 106
PB - Nová tiskárna Pelhimov and Institute of Ethnology of the Czech Academy of Sciences
PY - 2021///
SN - 978-80-7415-234-4
SP - 85
TI - Afforestation: UK Forestry Policy in Response to Changing Resource Needs
T1 - European Forests Our Cultural Heritage.
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/92987
ER -