Sustainable Land Management for Forests under Climate Change
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Social Ecology and Sustainability".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2022) | Viewed by 306
Special Issue Editor
Interests: application of statistics and/or modeling to problems in forest ecology and management; response to climate change; natural and human disturbances; interaction with non-forest ecosystems; remote sensing; and other quantitatively grounded disciplines
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Forests are lands where the predominant land use and canopy cover consist of trees. According to the FAO 2015 Global Forest Resources Assessment, an estimated 13 million hectares of forest was lost to deforestation per year between 2000 and 2010. Drivers of deforestation include conversion to other land uses, such as agriculture, extractive activities, and infrastructure. However, climate change can exacerbate deforestation processes including through increases in flooding, drought frequency and severity, wildfires, pest outbreaks, and windstorms with outcomes being modulated by sustainable land management.
Over the last few decades, numerous studies have highlighted that afforestation and reforestation of previously forested lands are an important and widely accepted forest management practice to increase carbon sequestration, as well as the maintenance of mitigation and adaptation functions to climate change. Sustainable land use, forest resource management, and protection of biodiversity have been measured to assess impacts of climate change on rapid deforestation, desertification, and land degradation. Furthermore, unsustainable land management for forests has led to negative economic impacts. Climate change is projected to exacerbate these negative economic impacts. Therefore, this Special Issue aims to gather emerging scientific research conducted in the framework of sustainable land management for forests under a changing climate, as well as the implications for forest biodiversity, carbon sequestration, and economic development.
Dr. Wu Ma
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- global warming
- land use and cover change
- ecosystem restoration
- economic development
- carbon sequestration
- forest biodiversity
- extreme drought
