Forest Landscape Restoration as a Key Component of Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation
Forest and landscape restoration can contribute to climate change mitigation and adaptation by increasing productivity of landscapes, enhancing the resilience of forest ecosystems, and reducing the vulnerability of forest-dependent human communities. Actions to conserve, sustainably manage, and restore forests can contribute to economic growth, poverty alleviation, rule of law, food security, climate resilience, and biodiversity conservation. Restoring forest landscapes can help secure respect for the rights of forest dependent indigenous peoples, while promoting their participation and that of local communities in natural resources decision making. Drawing on state-of-the-art scientific knowledge through analysis of restoration case studies and review of scientific literature, IUFRO scientists developed a framework to demonstrate how FLR can contribute to climate change mitigation and adaptation. One of the major results of this study was the identification and detailed description of the many different ways in which FLR contributes to both mitigating climate effects and helping ecosystems and society to adapt to adverse effects of a changing climate. In addition, this work contributed a stoplight tool aimed at better presenting complex restoration initiatives, and how they may contribute to climate change mitigation and adaptation and vice-versa, in a specific local context.
- Ψηφιακό Αρχείο: https://www.iufro.org/download/file/22319/153/ws34_pdf/
- Εκδότης: International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO)
- Δημιουργός: John A. Stanturf, Promode Kant, Jens-Peter Barnekow Lillesø, Stephanie Mansourian, Michael Kleine, Lars Graudal, and Palle Madsen
- Πηγή: International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO)
- Ιστότοπος: https://www.iufro.org/download/file/22319/153/ws34_pdf/
- Γλώσσα: Αγγλική
- Άδεια Χρήσης: Ελεύθερη χρήση/διανομή (public domain - open access)
- Έτος: 2015
- Βιβλιογραφία: Forest and landscape restoration can contribute to climate change mitigation and adaptation by increasing productivity of landscapes, enhancing the resilience of forest ecosystems, and reducing the vulnerability of forest-dependent human communities. Actions to conserve, sustainably manage, and restore forests can contribute to economic growth, poverty alleviation, rule of law, food security, climate resilience, and biodiversity conservation. Restoring forest landscapes can help secure respect for the rights of forest dependent indigenous peoples, while promoting their participation and that of local communities in natural resources decision making. Drawing on state-of-the-art scientific knowledge through analysis of restoration case studies and review of scientific literature, IUFRO scientists developed a framework to demonstrate how FLR can contribute to climate change mitigation and adaptation. One of the major results of this study was the identification and detailed description of the many different ways in which FLR contributes to both mitigating climate effects and helping ecosystems and society to adapt to adverse effects of a changing climate. In addition, this work contributed a stoplight tool aimed at better presenting complex restoration initiatives, and how they may contribute to climate change mitigation and adaptation and vice-versa, in a specific local context.
