Eye on the Taiga: Removing Global Policy Impediments to Safeguard the Boreal Forest

Conservation Letters - Tập 7 Số 4 - Trang 408-418 - 2014
Jon Moen1, Lucy Rist1, Kevin Bishop2,3, F. Stuart Chapin4, David Ellison5, Timo Kuuluvainen6, Hans Petersson5, Klaus J. Puettmann7, Jeremy Rayner8, Ian G. Warkentin9, Corey J. A. Bradshaw10
1Department of Ecology and Environmental Science, Umeå University, SE 90187, Umeå, Sweden
2Department of Aquatic sciences and Assessment Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences Box 7050 SE‐75007 Uppsala Sweden
3Department of Earth Sciences, Uppsala University, SE 75236 Uppsala, Sweden
4Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska-Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK 99775, USA
5Department of Forest Resource Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, SE 90183 Umeå, Sweden
6Department of Forest Sciences University of Helsinki FIN-00014 Helsinki Finland
7Department of Forest Ecosystems and Society, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97330, USA
8Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK S7N 5B8, Canada
9Environmental Science (Biology) Memorial University of Newfoundland Corner Brook NL A2H 6P9 Canada
10The Environment Institute and School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia 5005, Australia

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AbstractThe absence of boreal forests from global policy agendas on sustainable development and climate change mitigation represents a massive missed opportunity for environmental protection. The boreal zone contains some of the world's largest pools of terrestrial carbon that, if not safeguarded from a conversion to a net source of greenhouse gases, could seriously exacerbate global climate change. At the same time, boreal countries have a strong tradition of forest management—expertise that could be effectively leveraged toward global and national carbon mitigation targets and sustainable development. Current obstacles against such contributions include weak incentives for carbon sequestration and a reluctance to embrace change by forest managers and policy makers. We discuss possible solutions to overcome these obstacles, including the improvement of ineffective incentives, the development of alternative forest management strategies, and the need to maintain ecosystem resilience through the pursuit of policy and management options.

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Conservation Letters

Tập 7 Số 4

408-418

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