Keskitalo, Carina
- Department of Forest Resource Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Abstract
It is only relatively recently that national adaptation strategies have begun to develop measures by which forestry can adapt to climate change; often those measures opt to use a relatively general strategy for coping under conditions of disturbance. Particularly in states using intensive forest management, such as Sweden, this approach marks a departure from current strategies for achieving maximum yield. In other countries, however, where the economic output from forestry is less significant and interests such as biodiversity, local use and tourism, may figure more prominently, the conditions for developing risk-based forest management may be more manifest. This study reviews literature on adaptations in forest management, and analyzes country reports submitted as part of an EU27 project. The study concludes that the diverse prerequisites and policies of states have seldom been reflected in the design of adaptation management actions to date
Keywords
forest governance; forest management; climate change; adaptation; EU
Published in
Forests
2011, volume: 2, number: 1, pages: 415-430
SLU Authors
Associated SLU-program
SLU Future Forests
Global goals (SDG)
UKÄ Subject classification
Forest Science
Publication identifier
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/f2010415
Permanent link to this page (URI)
https://res.slu.se/id/publ/33443