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Adapting sustainable forest management to climate change : Adapter l'aménagement forestier durable aux changements climatiques, aperçu des approches d'évaluation de la capacité d'adaptation humaine

3 Dec 2013

The goal of phase 2 was to equip members of the forest sector with a suite of tools and state-of- the-art information to enable them to make better decisions about the need for adaptation and the types of measures that may be most beneficial. [...] The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has defined adaptive capacity as “The ability of a system to adjust to climate change (including climate variability and extremes) to moderate potential damages, to take advantage of opportunities, or to cope with the consequences.” This report presents an overview of assessment techniques, concepts, and approaches for describing and analyzing human ad [...] The suite of techniques, of analysis, the reasons for concepts, and approaches the assessment, the depth of Climate change and adaptability presented here cover a range analysis desired, and the spatial, Climate change may result in ongoing of options. [...] The study considered the importance and hectare of managed land and average education and sufficiency of eight specific determinants of adaptive experience of forest managers. [...] Other proxies of Descriptions of adaptive capacity might also include adaptive capacity include the profitability of the forest assessments of how adaptive capacity differs among industry, rates of unemployment, percentage of allowable individuals, groups, or communities within an SFM annual cut utilized within the managed forests, rates of system, a property referred to as the distribution of gro
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Authors

Williamson, T. B, Isaac, Kendra

ISBN
9781100229379 9781100229386
Pages
36
Published in
Ottawa, Ontario

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