Trees matter to people in a variety of ways including for wellbeing, providing a sense of place or community, for historic, aesthetic or spiritual reasons, or for their value to nature and wildlife.
Understanding how people and communities value their relationship with trees is an important element to consider when local authorities and their stakeholders develop a local Trees and Woodlands Strategy (TAWS) – but capturing representative information can be difficult. To help measure the social and cultural values of trees, this module presents findings from a national survey and includes a new survey tool developed by Forest Research, University of York, Fera Science, and The Tree Council.
It provides a relatively simple and structured approach to understanding the ways in which trees are valued by people in a community. The evidence can help guide and justify decision making within a local authority.
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