Fellow's Profile
Roddy Shaw
Fellow's Profile
Roddy Shaw
Governance, awareness and delivering change for UK urban forests
Fellowship
- Themes
- Focus
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Exploring environmental governance to better plan and care for UK nature and urban forests.
- Countries
- Fellowship year
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2025
- Locality
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London
Contact
Biography
Having originally studied zoology with a sense of saving nature 'over there',
my path has taken me to urban trees and the nature outside our front door. I am now the
Senior Development Manager at Trees for Cities, responsible for building urban forestry
programmes across England.
With some of the lowest tree canopy cover in Europe, and a highly urbanised population, the UK's urban trees provide the most immediate environmental benefits to most of us. As global environmental changes become ever more locally felt, our urban forests play a frontline role in addressing these threats. However, a common obstacle I've encountered is the complicated governance of nature in the UK and the additional challenges this brings.
We must act now to address these challenges, remove barriers and better structure ourselves to restore our natural world and ensure thriving urban
forests. Cities are tapestries requiring multiple actors to collaborate to achieve a shared outcome, and the greatest successes are seen when there is clear governance and parties work together for nature. I want to learn how better, clearer models of governance can help bring actors together and overcome working in silo.
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All Reports are copyright © the author. The moral right of the author has been asserted. The views and opinions expressed by any Fellow are those of the Fellow and not of the Churchill Fellowship or its partners, which have no responsibility or liability for any part of them.
