Integrating global forest footprints into forest management
This research serves to integrate the concept of “ecological footprint” into future - oriented forest management scenarios. Ecological footprints measure human appropriation of ecosystem products and services in terms of the area of bioproductive land and sea needed to supply these services. Scenarios are commonly used to explore stakeholder perceptions of possible forest futures, and are typically focused on the local impacts of different management choices. This paper illustrates how global footprint analysis can be incorporated into scenarios to enable local forest stakeholders to consider the impacts of their local decisions at national and global levels. The scenarios used in this research were drawn from the EU-funded project ‘INTEGRAL where ten European countries were included as case studies. It finds that different future forest management scenarios involving a potential increase or decrease of the harvested timber, or potential increase or decrease of subsidies for forest protection, combined with various possible changes in local consumption patterns, might have impact on both “internal” (local) and “external” (non-local) forest or either carbon footprints. Conclusively, crucial decisions to reduce local production, without a concurrent decrease in local consumption, could contribute to an increase in reliance on high risk imports with a net negative impact on sustainability.
- Εκδότης: Ελληνική Δασολογική Εταιρεία
- Δημιουργός: Koulelis, Panagiotis P. and Constance L. McDermott
- Πηγή: Ελληνική Δασολογική Εταιρεία
- Ιστότοπος: http://www.forestry.gr/assets/pdf/conf/FULL%20CONGRESS%20PROCEEDINGS%20HFS%202017%20WORKSHOP%202(2)%20with%20ISBN.pdf
- Γλώσσα: Ελληνική
- Άδεια Χρήσης: Ελεύθερη χρήση/διανομή (public domain - open access)
- Έτος: 2018
- Βιβλιογραφία: Koulelis, Panagiotis P. and Constance L. McDermott. 2018. Integrating global forest footprints into forest management. p. 1303-1315 In: 18th Hellenic Forestry Congress & International Workshop. Edessa 8-11 October 2017. Hellenic Forestry Society.
