A collaboration with the European Forest Institute exploring how arts- and humanities-based digital methods can be used to understand forest issues and to explore engagement around reforestation. Undertaken as part of the SUPERB project on upscaling forest restoration.
This is an ongoing research project and materials will be listed here when they are available.
- “Restoring forests and facts: how Social Media analysis can shape environmental stories, Oct 2025
- Climate Reporting: 5 Tips for Sourcing Stories Online, Oct 2025
- Keeping ‘nature’ on the public agenda in a noisy world, Oct 2025
- Stakeholder Engagement for the development and implementation of National Restoration Plans (Policy and Practice Brief), Oct 2025.
- New toolkit released to boost forest restoration through storytelling (also cross-posted at EFI blog), Dec 2024
- Networked nature-cultures spotlight as part of critical forest studies collaboratory digital planting, Nov 2024
- Engaging stakeholders in forest ecosystem restoration at the European Commission Green Deal Success Stories, Out 2024
- Colombo, G., & Gray, J. W. Y. (2023). Un-indexing forest media: Repurposing search query results to reconsider forest-society relations. Cultural Geographies.
- Plus four accompanying speculative catalogues on place names, invitations, infrastructures and stories, Jun 2023
- Stories as enablers for ‘deepscaling’ forest restoration (also cross-posted at EFI blog), May 2023
- What can Google Image search results tell us about human-forest relationships?, May 2023
- Exploration of forest restoration stories on YouTube, Apr 2023
- What Twitter images tell us about COP27 issues: A focus on the Forests and Climate Leaders’ Partnership and Biodiversity Day (also cross-posted at EFI blog and resilience blog), Jan 2023
- COP27 on Twitter: Forest restoration issues and narratives through hashtags (also cross-posted at EFI blog and Public Data Lab blog), Nov 2022