Climate Change in the Western and Northern Forests of Canada
Title | Climate Change in the Western and Northern Forests of Canada PDF eBook |
Author | G. A. McKinnon |
Publisher | |
Pages | 84 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Nature |
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This is the report of a workshop held to provide a forum for the exchange of information on both the expected impacts of climate change on Canada's western & northern forests, and potential adaptive strategies. Topics covered in presentations & poster sessions included climate change science and the implications of climate change for environmental, social, & economic values of the forest. Facilitated interactive sessions focussed on knowledge gaps, policy, and institutional barriers to adaptation, followed by suggestions for moving the climate change impacts & adaptation agenda forward in the forest sector.
Exploring the Implications of Climatic Change for the Boreal Forest and Forestry Economics of Western Canada
Title | Exploring the Implications of Climatic Change for the Boreal Forest and Forestry Economics of Western Canada PDF eBook |
Author | Elaine E. Wheaton |
Publisher | |
Pages | 56 |
Release | 1988 |
Genre | Climatic changes |
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Turning Up the Heat
Title | Turning Up the Heat PDF eBook |
Author | Christy Ferguson |
Publisher | |
Pages | 54 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Climatic changes |
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The Importance of Forest Sector Adaptation to Climate Change
Title | The Importance of Forest Sector Adaptation to Climate Change PDF eBook |
Author | T. C. Lemprière |
Publisher | |
Pages | 80 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Nature |
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This report summarizes current knowledge about recent changes in the climate of Canadas forests and projects further changes over this century based on scenarios of future global greenhouse gas emissions developed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Even with sustained reductions in global emissions the future climate is predicted to be quite different, meaning that adaptation will be essential. Impacts on the forest are already occurring and will be substantial in the future. The current upward trend in area burned annually is expected to continue. Forests will be prone to widespread stress induced by the changing climate, increasing the likelihood of pest outbreaks in the short to medium term. Recent outbreaks of several pests have exceeded in scope all previous known epidemics of these pests and are associated with the crossing of a climatic threshold. Invasion of the boreal forest by the mountain pine beetle, Dendroctonus ponderosae (Hopkins), appears likely, although the effect of this range expansion would likely be less severe than that observed recently in British Columbia, and outbreaks of the spruce budworm, Choristoneura fumiferana (Clemens), are predicted to be longer and more severe in the future. Future forest growth in response to climate change is expected to be variable, with growth reduction because of drought in parts of Canadas western forests perhaps the most dramatic short- to medium-term outcome, though modestly increased growth in the east is predicted. Such impacts have implications for the cost and characteristics of timber supply, and climate change will also affect forestry operations, recreation opportunities, biodiversity, and carbon storage. Planning based on past approaches will need to be reconsidered. Current objectives for sustainable forest management may not be attainable in the future, although there may be some new opportunities. Climate change may produce public safety risks, significant economic and social dislocation in forest-dependent communities including Aboriginal communities, and impacts on the competitiveness of companies as well as on the actions and policies of all levels of government. These effects can be reduced through early identification and implementation of actions to reduce vulnerabilities or take advantage of new opportunities. The key needs associated with adaptation in the forest sector include awareness building and debate, improved knowledge and information, vulnerability assessments, planning frameworks and tools, and enhanced coordination and cooperation among governments and other forest sector participants. Meeting the challenge of adaptation will require sustained effort for many years.
Climate Change and Canada's Forests
Title | Climate Change and Canada's Forests PDF eBook |
Author | T. B. Williamson |
Publisher | |
Pages | 108 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Nature |
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Forest managers can expect the unexpected and they can expect that change will be ongoing and unrelenting. Some general recommendations for beginning to address climate change in Canada's forest sector include enhancing the capacity to undertake integrated assessment of vulnerabilities to climate change at various scales; increasing resources to monitor the impacts of climate change; increasing resources for impacts and adaptation science; reviewing forest policies, forest planning, forest management approaches, and institutions to assess our ability to achieve social objectives under climate change; embedding principles of risk management and adaptive management into forest management; and maintaining or improving the capacity for communicating, networking, and information sharing with the Canadian public and within the forest sector."--Pub. website.
The Carbon Bomb
Title | The Carbon Bomb PDF eBook |
Author | Kevin Jardine |
Publisher | Amsterdam : Stichting Greenpeace Council |
Pages | 50 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | Atmospheric carbon dioxide Environmental aspects |
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The Carbon the World Forgot
Title | The Carbon the World Forgot PDF eBook |
Author | Matt Carlson |
Publisher | |
Pages | 33 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Carbon sequestration |
ISBN | 9780984223817 |
[This report] identifies the boreal forests of North America as not only the cornerstone habitat for key mammal species, but one of the most significant carbon stores in the world, the equivalent of 26 years of global emissions from burning fossil fuels, based on 2006 emissions levels. Globally, these forests store 22 percent of all carbon on the earth's land surface.