Natural Climate Solutions, Carbon Storage and Forest Management in Boreal Forests
A special issue of Forests (ISSN 1999-4907). This special issue belongs to the section "Forest Economics, Policy, and Social Science".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (29 February 2024) | Viewed by 880
Special Issue Editors
Interests: sustainable development; sustainable forest management; sustainability; spatial analysis; environmental management; voluntary and market-based mechanisms of environmental responsibility; ecology and evolution; biodiversity
Interests: nitrous oxide; carbon; nitrogen; greenhouse gases; biogenic cycles of nitrogen and carbon
Interests: sustainable forest management; adaptation to and mitigation of climate change in the forest sector; green economy; forest conservation
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Mitigation programs and projects in the forest sector are now widely discussed worldwide in the context of reliable natural climate solutions (NCS) to climate change. Notwithstanding the enormous efforts of academic researchers, policy makers and industry, a general framework for nature-based solutions (NBSs) in the forest sector remains to be established. Therefore, new strategies for the assessment, design and implementation of reliable NCSs in boreal forests to protect these areas and establish their sustainable and climate-smart management and restoration are urgently needed.
This Special Issue will provide an overview of the most recent advances in the field of NCSs suitable for implementation in boreal forests in various countries.
Potential topics include, but are not limited to:
- Protection of intact and other high-conservation-value boreal forests (boreal REDD+) as a climate project;
- Reducing the emissions from forest fires as a climate project;
- Interaction between forest certification and climate certification projects;
- Improved forest management and climate smart forestry on the basis of NCSs;
- Forestry climate projects in managed/non-managed forest lands, agricultural lands, and other type of lands;
- Approaches to calculating the climate change mitigation potential of forests.
Dr. Evgeny A. Shvarts
Dr. Anna Anatolievna Romanovskaya
Dr. Andrey V. Ptichnikov
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- forest and climate methodologies
- mitigation potential
- forest and climate certification
