Forester Preferences on Revising Silvics of North America—a Survey of Registered Foresters in Four States

Abstract Silvics of North America (SNA) is a widely used silvicultural manual. However, the last SNA was published in 1990. Therefore, 2,589 registered foresters were surveyed across four US states to answer two broad questions: (1) Should SNA be updated? And (2) would an updated SNA still be a useful tool for forest management? Most respondents indicated that the type and extent of content contained in the previous version of SNA was still desirable today. Aside from updating all sections with recent research findings, expansion was suggested for ecosystem services provided by species. An update to maps provided in SNA, through changes to natural ranges of tree species and other aesthetic improvement, was suggested by most survey respondents. These findings support the conclusion that the SNA would still be an essential source of information if 21st-century issues such as climate change impacts and adaptation measures were included in the update. Study Implications: There have been major changes in the environment and forest science over the past 30 years, but SNA has not been revised to reflect these changes. The results of this survey indicate that an update to SNA is warranted. The results presented here can serve as a guide for a future update of SNA.

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Gender, Forests and Climate Change

10.18235/0003072 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Paloma Marcos Morezuelas

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Climate Change Mitigation ◽

Climate Change Impacts ◽

Forest Products ◽

Value Chains ◽

Adaptation Measures ◽

Mitigation And Adaptation ◽

Payment Schemes ◽

Gender Lens ◽

Change Mitigation

As users of forest products and guardians of traditional knowledge, women have always been involved in forestry. Nevertheless, their access to forest resources and benefits and participation in forest management is limited compared to mens despite the fact that trees are more important to women, who depend on them for their families food security, income generation and cooking fuel. This guide aims to facilitate the incorporation of a gender lens in climate change mitigation and adaptation operations in forests, with special attention to those framed in REDD. This guide addresses four themes value chains, environmental payment schemes, firewood and biodiversity that relate directly to 1) how climate change impacts affect women in the forest and 2) how mitigation and adaptation measures affect womens access to resources and benefits distribution.

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Risk assessment of climate change impacts and the post-mining land reclamation on the example of the “Brzeziny” Natural Aggregate Mine

Annals of Warsaw University of Life Sciences – SGGW Land Reclamation ◽

10.2478/sggw-2018-0004 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 50 (1) ◽

pp. 43-54

Author(s):

Katarzyna Pawełczyk

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Risk Assessment ◽

Land Reclamation ◽

Climate Change Impacts ◽

Mining Area ◽

Event Tree ◽

Event Tree Analysis ◽

Analytic Hierarchy ◽

Adaptation Measures ◽

Optimal Method

Abstract Mitigation of climate change and adaptation to its effects manifested in increasingly extreme meteorological phenomena are one of the most important contemporary global challenges. In the face of new hazards, numerous measures are taken to adapt environmental components and ventures to climate change, such as the reclamation of degraded areas – recognized as a key adaptation and mitigation action. The success and the property of selecting these measures, including reclamation, requires a detailed recognition of the risk of occurrence of various hazards and of the severity of their consequences in a given area. The study assessed the risk of the climate change impacts on the post-mining area and based on its results an optimal method of reclamation of the “Brzeziny” gravel pit was proposed, aimed at the maximum adaptation of the area to the occurrence of potential climate events. The risk analysis was based on elements of the common risk assessment methodology (CRAM) and enriched with elements of the analytic hierarchy process method (AHP). Moreover, the event tree analysis (ETA) logic technique was used to assess the proposed adaptation measures at the reclamation stage.

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As Experiências da Coalizão Adapta Sertão na Disseminação de Tecnologias e Estratégias de Adaptação à Mudança Climática para o Agricultor Familiar do Semiárido Brasileiro (The experience of the Adapta Sertão Coalition in Disseminating Climate Change...)

Revista Brasileira de Geografia Física ◽

10.26848/rbgf.v4i6.232776 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 4 (6) ◽

pp. 1336 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Daniele Cesano ◽

Emilio Lèbre La Rovere ◽

Martin Obermaier ◽

Thais Corral ◽

Laise Santos da Silva ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Production Systems ◽

Public Policies ◽

Climate Change Impacts ◽

Future Climate Change ◽

Small Farmers ◽

Family Farming ◽

Adaptation Measures ◽

Access To Water ◽

Semi Arid

Este artigo descreve a experiência da coalizão Adapta Sertão na experimentação e disseminação de sistemas produtivos que possam tornar o agricultor familiar do Semiárido mais resiliente aos impactos da variação climática atual e da mudança do clima no futuro. Durante as experimentações, a coalizão teve que enfrentar várias barreiras ligadas à falta de integração entre políticas públicas existentes e projetos pilotos em comunidades locais. Hoje, a adaptação à mudança do clima não está sendo considerada na implementação de obras hídricas de pequeno e médio porte, que são de grande importância porque, geralmente, conseguem beneficiar as faixas de população mais pobres e mais suscetíveis aos impactos climáticos. As experiências mostram que é preciso desenvolver, com urgência, políticas públicas inovadoras que consigam integrar o acesso à água com a disseminação de tecnologias de adaptação e de sistemas produtivos mais resilientes à seca. Palavras - chave: medidas de adaptação, agricultura familiar, semiárido, tecnologia. The experience of the Adapta Sertão Coalition in Disseminating Climate Change Adaptation Technologies and Strategies for Family Farmers in Semi Arid Brazil ABSTRACTThis paper describes the experience of the Adapta Sertão coalition in testing and experimenting production systems that have the potential to make small farmers of semi-arid Brazil more resilient to current and future climate change impacts. During the different testing, the coalition had to overcome several barriers linked to a lack of integration between current public policies. For example, today climate change is not considered in the design and implementation of small and medium hydraulic infrastructures. This limits the benefits to the target groups (small farmers) that are more likely to be affected by climate change. The experiences show that it is urgent and necessary to develop public policies to better integrate access to water, dissemination of climate resilient technologies and implementation of production systems more adequate to the semi arid conditions. Keywords: adaptation measures, family farming, semi-arid, technology.

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Possible adaptation measures of agriculture sector in the Nile Delta to climate change impacts

Advances in Science and Research ◽

10.5194/asr-3-123-2009 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 3 (1) ◽

pp. 123-126 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

S. M. Attaher ◽

M. A. Medany ◽

A. F. Abou-Hadid

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Nile Delta ◽

Climate Change Impacts ◽

Yield Reduction ◽

Agricultural System ◽

Delta Region ◽

Adaptation Measures ◽

Agriculture Sector ◽

The World ◽

Impacts Of Climate Change

Abstract. The overall agricultural system in the Nile Delta region is considered as one of the highest intensive and complicated agriculture systems in the world. According to the recent studies, the Nile Delta region is one of the highly vulnerable regions in the world to climate change. Sea level rise, soil and water degradation, undiversified crop-pattern, yield reduction, pests and disease severity, and irrigation and drainage management were the main key factors that increased vulnerability of the agriculture sector in that region. The main objective of this study is to conduct a community-based multi-criteria adaptation assessment in the Nile Delta using a preset questionnaire. A list of possible adaptation measures for agriculture sector was evaluated. The results indicated that the Nile Delta growers have strong perceptions to act positively to reduce the impacts of climate change. They reflected the need to improve the their adaptive capacity based on clear scientific message with adequate governmental support to coop with the negative impacts of climate change.

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Adaptación de la agricultura a escenarios de cambio global. Aplicación de métodos participativos en la cuenca del río Júcar (España)

Economía Agraria y Recursos Naturales ◽

10.7201/earn.2018.02.02 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 18 (2) ◽

pp. 29 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Mar Ortega-Reig ◽

Marta García-Mollá ◽

Carles Sanchis-Ibor ◽

Manuel Pulido-Velázquez ◽

Corentin Girard ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Global Change ◽

Climate Change Impacts ◽

Adaptation Strategy ◽

Climate Change Scenarios ◽

Adaptation Measures ◽

La Mancha ◽

Local Impacts ◽

Del Rio ◽

Adaptation Processes

<p>This paper develops a participatory methodology to integrate farmer’s vision in the design of an adaptation strategy to global change in the Jucar River basin. It aims at answering three questions: How farmers perceive climate change impacts; which adaptation measures they consider; and how they assess these measures. Participatory workshops with different actors were held in two areas (La Ribera and La Mancha Oriental). This methodology has allowed identifying the local impacts and consequences of global change, and the difficulties of the adaptation processes to climate change scenarios.</p>

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Biodiversity and ecosystem services: climate change impacts on species extinctions

IOP Conference Series Earth and Environmental Science ◽

10.1088/1755-1307/6/30/302001 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 6 (30) ◽

pp. 302001

Author(s):

Georgina Mace ◽

W Foden

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Ecosystem Services ◽

Climate Change Impacts ◽

Species Extinctions

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Modeling and Analysis of Barriers to Climate Change Adaptation in Tehran

Climate ◽

10.3390/cli8100104 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 8 (10) ◽

pp. 104

Author(s):

Behnam Ghasemzadeh ◽

Ayyoob Sharifi

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Climate Change Adaptation ◽

Structural Equation ◽

Group Discussion ◽

Climate Change Impacts ◽

Equation Modeling ◽

Interpretive Structural Modeling ◽

Adaptation Measures ◽

Modeling And Analysis ◽

Management Plans

Since the impacts of climate change will last for many years, adaptation to this phenomenon should be prioritized in urban management plans. Although Tehran, the capital of Iran, has been subject to a variety of climate change impacts in recent years, appropriate adaptation measures to address them are yet to be taken. This study primarily aims to categorize the barriers to climate change adaptation in Tehran and analyze the way they interact with each other. The study was done in three steps: first, the focus group discussion (FGD) method was used to identify the barriers; next, the survey and the structural equation modeling (SEM) were used to validate the barriers, identify their importance, and examine their possible inter-relationships; and finally, the interpretive structural modeling (ISM) was applied to categorize and visualize the relationships between the barriers. Results show that barriers related to the ‘structure and culture of research’, ‘laws and regulations’, and ‘planning’ belong to the cluster of independent barriers and are of greater significance. The ‘social’ barrier and barriers related to ‘resources and resource management’ are identified as dependent barriers and are of lesser importance. Barriers related to ‘governance’, ‘awareness’, ‘education and knowledge’, ‘communication and interaction’, and ‘economy’ are identified at the intermediate cluster. The findings of this study can provide planners and decision makers with invaluable insights as to how to develop strategies for climate change adaptation in Tehran. Despite the scope of the study being confined to Tehran, its implications go far beyond this metropolis.

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