Using Forests to Enhance Resilience to Climate Change : What Do We Know About How Forests Can Contribute to Adaptation?

• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 577.3 Forest ecology
• Thông tin xuất bản: Washington, DC, 2014
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 297680
• Chủ đề: 1. ADAPTATION STRATEGIES; 2. ADAPTATION TO CLIMATE CHANGE; 3. ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; 4. ADJACENT ECOSYSTEMS; 5. ADVERSE EFFECTS

Tóm tắt

 The global dialogue surrounding the United Nations framework convention for climate change has focused on two strategies for addressing challenges associated with climate change: (1) mitigation (reducing the accumulation of greenhouse gases (GHG) in the atmosphere)
  and (2) adaptation (reducing the vulnerability of societies and ecosystems to the impacts of climate change). Forests feature in both of these strategies. The role of forests as stores of carbon and therefore in reducing GHG emissions has been captured in the efforts associated with reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation and enhancing carbon stocks (REDD+). The report points to how forests will respond to climate change, and advocates strengthening the ability of institutions to deliver on sustainable forest management, which will help with the resilience of forest systems. This working paper presents a review of relevant work on forests and the services, and the use of forests and trees in adaptation. The paper starts with a brief discussion about climate change. It also provides a conceptualization of how to link forest services with their use for adaptation (more specifically, ecosystem-based adaptation). This report is structured as follows: chapter one gives introduction
  chapter two focuses on climate change
  chapter three presents vulnerability and climate change adaptation
  chapter four introduces the ecosystem-based adaptation
  chapter five deals with forests and adaptation
  and chapter six gives conclusions and way forward.