Future Forests Adaptation to Climate Change

About this book

Future Forests: Adaptation to Climate Change provides background on forests as natural and social systems, the current distribution and dynamics based on major biomes that set the stage for chapters on the role of forests in global systems, the nature of climate change organized by biomes, and detailed descriptions of mitigation and adaptation strategies and techniques. This book forms an advanced foundational summary of the feedback between the effect of climate change on forests and the converse effects of forests on climate, leading to conclusions on how forest management needs to be dictated by climate change and how climate change can be mitigated by forest management. Future Forests: Adaptation to Climate Change presents helps readers in the fields of climate change science, forest science, and conservation biology develop a thorough understanding the broad perspective of climate change on forests, the response of forests to these changes and other climate-forest interaction potentials.

Contents

1. Introduction
2. Forests as Natural Systems
3. Forests as Socio-Ecological Systems
4. Forest Management
5. Climate Change and Forests
6. Climate Change and Boreal Forests
7. Climate Change and Temperate Forests
8. Climate Change and Tropical Forests
9. Mitigation Potential of Forests
10. Adapting Forestry to Climate Futures1. Introduction
2. Forests as Natural Systems
3. Forests as Socio-Ecological Systems
4. Forest Management
5. Climate Change and Forests
6. Climate Change and Boreal Forests
7. Climate Change and Temperate Forests
8. Climate Change and Tropical Forests
9. Mitigation Potential of Forests
10. Adapting Forestry to Climate Futures

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Biography

Dr John Stanturf is a visiting Professor, Institute of Forestry and Rural Engineering, Estonian University of Life Sciences, Estonia, a Senior Researcher and Forest Restoration Specialist for InNovaSilva ApS, Denmark and is a retired Senior Scientist, US Forest Service, USA. His research focuses on forest landscape restoration, disturbance ecology, climate change adaptation, and bioenergy. He earned his MSc and PhD in Forest Soils from Cornell University. Awards include an Honorary Doctorate from the Estonian University of Life Sciences, Distinguished Science Award from the Chief of the Forest Service, and the Distinguished Service Award from the International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO). He has conducted research in temperate and tropical forests in North and South America, Europe, and Asia. He also worked on REDD+, climate change vulnerability, and related issues in Africa through consultancies with the US Agency for International Development. He continues to consult and conduct training through IUFRO on Forest Landscape Restoration in support of the Bonn Challenge and on sustainable forestry through InNovaSilva Aps, a Danish consulting firm.