Climate change vulnerability and adaptation in the managed Canadian boreal forest

Environmental Reviews - Tập 22 Số 3 - Trang 256-285 - 2014
Sylvie Gauthier1, Pierre Y. Bernier1, Philip J. Burton2, Jason Edwards3, Kendra Isaac3, Jean Bousquet1, Karelle Jayen1, Héloïse Le Goff1, Elizabeth A. Nelson4
1Natural Resources Canada, Canadian Forest Service, Laurentian Forestry Centre, 1055 du P.E.P.S., P.O. Box 10380, Stn. Sainte-Foy, Québec, QC G1V 4C7, Canada
2Natural Resources Canada, Canadian Forest Service, Pacific Forestry Centre, 506 West Burnside Road, Victoria, BC, V8Z 1M5 Canada
3Natural Resources Canada, Canadian Forest Service, Northern Forestry Centre, 5320–122nd Street, Edmonton, AB T6H 3S5, Canada.
4Natural Resources Canada, National Capital Region, Science and Program Branch, 580 Booth Street, Ottawa, ON K1A 0E4, Canada.

Tóm tắt

Climate change is affecting Canada’s boreal zone, which includes most of the country’s managed forests. The impacts of climate change in this zone are expected to be pervasive and will require adaptation of Canada’s forest management system. This paper reviews potential climate change adaptation actions and strategies for the forest management system, considering current and projected climate change impacts and their related vulnerabilities. These impacts and vulnerabilities include regional increases in disturbance rates, regional changes in forest productivity, increased variability in timber supply, decreased socioeconomic resilience, and increased severity of safety and health issues for forest communities. Potential climate change adaptation actions of the forest management system are categorized as those that reduce nonclimatic stressors, those that reduce sensitivity to climate change, or those that maintain or enhance adaptive capacity in the biophysical and human subsystems of the forest management system. Efficient adaptation of the forest management system will revolve around the inclusion of risk management in planning processes, the selection of robust, diversified, and no-regret adaptation actions, and the adoption of an adaptive management framework. Monitoring is highlighted as a no-regret action that is central to the implementation of adaptive forest management.

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