Community forests now finding urban roots
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Community forests now finding urban roots - 2001 - Urban Environment Today (132) 11 October 2001, 11(1) .
Reports on the success of the national community forest programme, set up in 1991 to reclaim derelict land and provide community facilities across urban fringes. Illustrates how the community forest approach has become incorporated into regeneration programmes such as the New Deal for Communities and Single Regeneration Budget initiatives and recognised as part of the government's environmental regeneration agenda. Outlines the funding aspects of community forests and discusses local community initiatives such as the Thames Chase Community Forest. Includes a case study describing the benefits of environmental regeneration on a Bristol housing estate.
COMMUNITY FORESTS
FOREST MANAGEMENT
DERELICT LAND
URBAN AREAS
BRISTOL
REGENERATION
SOCIAL REGENERATION
Community forests now finding urban roots - 2001 - Urban Environment Today (132) 11 October 2001, 11(1) .
Reports on the success of the national community forest programme, set up in 1991 to reclaim derelict land and provide community facilities across urban fringes. Illustrates how the community forest approach has become incorporated into regeneration programmes such as the New Deal for Communities and Single Regeneration Budget initiatives and recognised as part of the government's environmental regeneration agenda. Outlines the funding aspects of community forests and discusses local community initiatives such as the Thames Chase Community Forest. Includes a case study describing the benefits of environmental regeneration on a Bristol housing estate.
COMMUNITY FORESTS
FOREST MANAGEMENT
DERELICT LAND
URBAN AREAS
BRISTOL
REGENERATION
SOCIAL REGENERATION