Possible outcomes of future visions - Community
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Local communities can participate more in decisions and people within communities become more close-knit and connected.
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Access to nature becomes more equal across the city and across different social groups.
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People are mentally and physically healthier and experience greater wellbeing.
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Trees are a more integral and felt part of the community, and treated more as community members with their own lives and needs that are deemed important to consider.
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The history, heritage, and cultural value associated with trees is protected and increased. |
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Notes
Given the tool's focus on broad outcomes rather than technical expertise, the focus in 'heritage' should tend towards discussion of what should be protected and why that is important, rather than, say, detailed sharing of information on the practicalities of Tree Protection Orders.
The idea of trees as 'community members' can be tricky to discuss. Conceptually, this should be understood as prompting thought on how trees might be brought into social relationships as a way of addressing the divide between people and nature (which was the emphasis of the living as trees Vision). This could, for example, be as an element within community practices (e.g. Christmas carols and decorations on the village green), or related to the rights of nature (e.g. that mature trees have an inalienable right to be protected).