Sammanfattning

Forest managers should promote the long-term growth of forests rather than maximize their short-term accumulation of carbon. Contemporary economic and political interests favor rapidly storing carbon in global forests. Against this background, forest managers are expected to contribute to mitigating planetary climate change by sharply increase forest carbon stocks. Building up the global forest growing stock too rapidly ignores the long-term cycles that govern forest growth dynamics. A further flaw in the strategy stems from the fact that anticipated changes in future climate argue against indiscriminately maximizing the carbon stock over the next two or three decades.(4) A range of forest practices from planting site specific species to more comprehensive landscape management offer a path to better long-term forest growth. We claim that past climate policies have taken a narrow view that favors rapidly accumulating forest carbon stocks to the detriment of management options that focus on improving long term forest growth and ecosystem health.

Nyckelord

Forest management; Carbon storage; Forest growth dynamics

Publicerad i

Land Use Policy
2022, Volym: 121, artikelnummer: 106319
Utgivare: ELSEVIER SCI LTD

SLU författare

• Kauppi, Pekka E

  • Institutionen för skogens ekologi och skötsel, Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet
    
  • Helsingin yliopisto

Associerade SLU-program

SLU Skogsskadecentrum


Globala målen

SDG13 Vidta omedelbara åtgärder för att bekämpa klimatförändringarna och dess konsekvenser


UKÄ forskningsämne

Skogsvetenskap
Miljövetenskap


Publikationens identifierare

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2022.106319

Permanent länk till denna sida (URI)

https://res.slu.se/id/publ/119448