Adapting forestry and forests to climate change: A challenge to change the paradigm

Dieter H.F. Schoene and Pierre Y. Bernier

Forest Policy and Economics, 2012, vol. 24, issue C, 12-19

Abstract: Carbon in forest biomass has historically been the fulcrum for major changes in forestry and forests. Following T.S. Kuhn, these breaks with the past are seen as paradigm changes. We perceive planned adaptation of forestry and forests under climate change as a new paradigm change, precipitated once more by forest carbon. To be sustainable, forest management and conservation must embrace planned adaptation to and mitigation of mitigation of and adaptation to climate change.

Keywords: Climate change impacts; Forest carbon; Adaptation in forestry; Definition of sustainable forest management; REDD (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1016/j.forpol.2011.04.007

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