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Defining Climate-Smart Forestry
- Source :
- Climate-Smart Forestry in Mountain Regions ISBN: 9783030807665
- Publication Year :
- 2022
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Abstract
- Climate-Smart Forestry (CSF) is a developing concept to help policymakers and practitioners develop focused forestry governance and management to adapt to and mitigate climate change. Within the EU COST Action CA15226, CLIMO (Climate-Smart Forestry in Mountain Regions), a CSF definition was developed considering three main pillars: (1) adaptation to climate change, (2) mitigation of climate change, and (3) the social dimension. Climate mitigation occurs through carbon (C) sequestration by trees, C storage in vegetation and soils, and C substitution by wood. However, present and future climate mitigation depends on the adaptation of trees, woods, and forests to adapt to climate change, which is also driven by societal change.Criteria and Indicators (C & I) can be used to assess the climate smartness of forestry in different conditions, and over time. A suite of C & I that quantify the climate smartness of forestry practices has been developed by experts as guidelines for CSF. This chapter charts the development of this definition, presents initial feedback from forest managers across Europe, and discusses other gaps and uncertainties, as well as potential future perspectives for the further evolution of this concept.
- Subjects :
- Settore AGR/05 - ASSESTAMENTO FORESTALE E SELVICOLTURA
Forest management
Mitigation
business.industry
Environmental resource management
Social dimension
Forestry governance
indicators
Adaptation, criteria & indicators
Adaptation, Criteria & Indicators, Forest management, Forestry governance, Mitigation, Social dimension
Adaptation
Criteria & Indicators
criteria &
business
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISBN :
- 978-3-030-80766-5
- ISBNs :
- 9783030807665
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Climate-Smart Forestry in Mountain Regions ISBN: 9783030807665
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....638e4a1314e8638f6d3d9ef25738ad45