TY - CHAP
T1 - Defining Climate-Smart Forestry
AU - Weatherall, Andrew
AU - Nabuurs, Gert-Jan
AU - Velikova, Violeta
AU - Santopuoli, Giovanni
AU - Bowditch, Euan
AU - Neroj, Bozydar
AU - Temperli, Christian
AU - Binder, Franz
AU - Ditmarova, Lubica
AU - Slovakia, Institute of Forest Ecology Slovak Academy of Sciences
AU - Lesinski, Jerzy
AU - La Porta, Nicola
AU - Pach, Maciej
AU - Panzacchi, Pietro
AU - Sarginci, Murat
AU - Serengil, Yusuf
AU - Tognetti, Roberto
N1 - © 2022 The Author(s)
PY - 2021/11/25
Y1 - 2021/11/25
N2 - Climate-Smart Forestry (CSF) is a developing concept to help policy-makers 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 feed-back from forest managers across Europe, and discusses other gaps and uncertainties, as well as potential future perspectives for the further evolution of this concept.
AB - Climate-Smart Forestry (CSF) is a developing concept to help policy-makers 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 feed-back from forest managers across Europe, and discusses other gaps and uncertainties, as well as potential future perspectives for the further evolution of this concept.
KW - Climate-smart
KW - Climate change
KW - Forestry
KW - Mountain
KW - forests
KW - definition
KW - European
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-80767-2
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-80767-2
M3 - Chapter (peer-reviewed)
VL - 40
T3 - Managing Forest Ecosystems
SP - 35
EP - 58
BT - Climate-Smart Forestry in Mountain Regions
PB - Springer
ER -