Description: Using Forests to Enhance Resilience to Climate Change : What Do We Know About How Forests Can Contribute to Adaptation?

Using Forests to Enhance Resilience to Climate Change : What Do We Know About How Forests Can Contribute to Adaptation?

The global dialogue surrounding the United Nations framework convention for climate change has focused on two strategies for addressing challenges associated with climate change: (1) mitigation (reducing the accumulation of greenhouse gases (GHG) i...

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Main Author:	World Bank
Language:	English en_US
Published:	Washington, DC 2014
Subjects:	ADAPTATION STRATEGIES ADAPTATION TO CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT ADJACENT ECOSYSTEMS ADVERSE EFFECTS ADVERSE IMPACTS AGRICULTURAL PRACTICES AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIVITY AGRICULTURE AIR ALTITUDE AMAZON FOREST ANIMAL SPECIES ANNUAL PRECIPITATION ANTHROPOGENIC GREENHOUSE ANTHROPOGENIC GREENHOUSE GASES ATMOSPHERE BASINS BENEFICIAL VALUES BIODIVERSITY BIOLOGICAL CORRIDORS BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY BROOKS BUFFERING CAPACITY CARBON CARBON CYCLING CARBON STOCKS CHARCOAL PRODUCTION CLEAN WATER CLIMATE CLIMATE CHANGE CLIMATE CHANGE SCENARIOS CLIMATE VARIABILITY CLIMATE VARIATION CLIMATES CLIMATIC CONDITIONS CO2 COAST COASTAL AREAS COASTAL EROSION COASTAL WETLANDS COASTAL ZONE COASTAL ZONES COMMERCIAL VALUE CONSERVATION POLICIES CONSTRUCTION CONVERGENCE CRITICAL ECOSYSTEM CROPS CUMULATIVE IMPACTS DAMS DEFORESTATION DEGRADED FORESTS DEGRADED LAND DESERTIFICATION DESERTS DOWNSTREAM POPULATIONS DOWNSTREAM WATERS DROUGHT DRY FOREST DRY FORESTS ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS ECOLOGY ECONOMIC BENEFITS ECOSYSTEM ECOSYSTEM ASSESSMENT ECOSYSTEM DEGRADATION ECOSYSTEM STRUCTURE EMISSION EMISSION REDUCTIONS EMISSION SCENARIOS EMISSION-REDUCTION EMISSIONS EMISSIONS FROM DEFORESTATION ENDANGERED SPECIES ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS ENVIRONMENTAL POLICIES EROSION EROSION CONTROL ESTUARINE EVAPOTRANSPIRATION FILTRATION FISH FISH STOCK FISH STOCKS FISHERIES FLOOD CONTROL FLOOD HAZARDS FLOOD WATERS FLOODING FLOODPLAINS FLOODPRONE AREAS FLOODS FOOD PRODUCTION FOOD SECURITY FOREST FOREST CATEGORIES FOREST COMMUNITIES FOREST CONSERVATION FOREST CONVERSION FOREST DEGRADATION FOREST ECOSYSTEM FOREST ECOSYSTEMS FOREST FIRE FOREST FIRES FOREST FRAGMENTATION FOREST GOVERNANCE FOREST GROWTH FOREST PLANTATION FOREST POLICY FOREST PRODUCTS FOREST RESEARCH FOREST RESOURCES FOREST SECTOR FOREST SENSITIVITY FOREST STRUCTURE FOREST SYSTEMS FOREST TYPES FORESTRY FORESTRY ACTIVITIES FORESTRY SYSTEMS FORESTS FRAMEWORK CONVENTION ON CLIMATE CHANGE FRESH WATER FRUIT FRUITS GHG GLACIERS GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE GLOBAL PRECIPITATION GLOBAL WARMING GREENHOUSE GREENHOUSE GASES HABITATS HUMAN ACTIVITY HUMIDITY HURRICANES HYDROLOGICAL FOREST IMPACT OF CLIMATE CHANGE INSECT PESTS INTERNATIONAL FORESTRY RESEARCH INVASIVE SPECIES IPCC LAND COVER LAND DEGRADATION LAND USE LAND USE CHANGE LAND USES LANDSCAPE LANDSCAPES LIVELIHOODS LOGGING LOW EMISSIONS SCENARIO MANGROVE FORESTS MANGROVES MARINE ECOSYSTEMS MITIGATION MONSOONS MOUNTAINOUS AREAS NATIVE SPECIES NATURAL FORESTS NATURAL RESOURCES NATURE NEGATIVE IMPACTS NITROGEN NITROGEN FIXATION NUTRIENT CYCLING NUTRIENT LEVELS NUTRIENTS PLANNING PROCESS PLOTS POLLUTANTS PP PRECIPITATION PRECIPITATION EVENTS QUALITY OF WATER RAIN RAINFALL RAINFALL EVENTS RAINY SEASON RANGES REGIONAL CLIMATE RESTORATION RIVER RIVER BASINS RIVERINE ROLE OF FORESTS RUNOFF SEA LEVEL RISE SEDIMENT SEDIMENT RETENTION SEDIMENTATION SEDIMENTS SENSITIVITY TO CLIMATE CHANGE SOIL EROSION SOIL MOISTURE SOLAR POWER SOLAR RADIATION SPECIES COMPOSITION SPECIES DISTRIBUTION SPECIES DIVERSITY STORMS STREAM SURFACE AIR TEMPERATURE SURFACE TEMPERATURE SURFACE TEMPERATURES SUSTAINABLE FOREST SUSTAINABLE FOREST MANAGEMENT SUSTAINABLE MANAGEMENT TEMPERATURE TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS TIBETAN PLATEAU TIMBER FOREST TIMBER FOREST PRODUCTS TOPOGRAPHY TREE SPECIES TROPICAL CYCLONES TROPICAL ECOSYSTEMS TROPICAL FOREST TROPICAL FORESTS TROPICAL MANGROVE FORESTS TROPICAL RAINFOREST TROPICAL REGIONS TROPICAL STORMS TROPICS UPLAND FORESTS VEGETATION WATER QUALITY WATERSHED WATERSHEDS WAVE ACTION WAVES WETLAND WETLAND ECOSYSTEMS WILDLIFE WIND WINDS
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2012/11/18181109/using-forests-enhance-resilience-climate-change-know-forests-can-contribute-adaptation http://hdl.handle.net/10986/18016

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Summary:	The global dialogue surrounding the United Nations framework convention for climate change has focused on two strategies for addressing challenges associated with climate change: (1) mitigation (reducing the accumulation of greenhouse gases (GHG) in the atmosphere); and (2) adaptation (reducing the vulnerability of societies and ecosystems to the impacts of climate change). Forests feature in both of these strategies. The role of forests as stores of carbon and therefore in reducing GHG emissions has been captured in the efforts associated with reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation and enhancing carbon stocks (REDD+). The report points to how forests will respond to climate change, and advocates strengthening the ability of institutions to deliver on sustainable forest management, which will help with the resilience of forest systems. This working paper presents a review of relevant work on forests and the services, and the use of forests and trees in adaptation. The paper starts with a brief discussion about climate change. It also provides a conceptualization of how to link forest services with their use for adaptation (more specifically, ecosystem-based adaptation). This report is structured as follows: chapter one gives introduction; chapter two focuses on climate change; chapter three presents vulnerability and climate change adaptation; chapter four introduces the ecosystem-based adaptation; chapter five deals with forests and adaptation; and chapter six gives conclusions and way forward.

Using Forests to Enhance Resilience to Climate Change : What Do We Know About How Forests Can Contribute to Adaptation?

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