Climate change and nature-based tourism, outdoor recreation, and forestry in Ontario

On- strategies organized according to the need to understand climate site land use planning and management techniques must be change, mitigate the impacts of rapid climate change, and help designed to protect the ecological and social pieces, patterns, Ontarians adapt to climate change: and processes. [...] Information on the effects of climate change on each of the nature-based tourism, outdoor recreation, and forestry activities come from a literature review and from the expert opinion of the authors. [...] In addition to an increase in annual precipitation of 0.5 to 1.0% in the mid- to high latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere, the frequency of heavy precipitation events increased 2 to 4% over the same period. [...] The types of benefi ts and therefore the exact combination of goods and services produced depend on the needs and preferences of society. [...] This use of short- and long-term horizons is only for illustration purposes as changes continuously occur to production possibilities and components of Figures 5 and 6. This next subsection provides a generic description of the potential effects of climate change on social and economic systems in the short and long term.