An integrated approach to assess carbon credit from improved forest management

Blanc, Simone; Accastello, Cristian; Bianchi, Ettore; Lingua, Federico; Vacchiano, Giorgio; Mosso, Angela; Brun, Filippo

doi:10.1080/10549811.2018.1494002

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“…In further researches, in addition to being complemented by SNA, the SA can be developed with Multi-criteria analysis in order to more accurately represent decision-making problems and help decision-makers to define priorities and best solutions. Another aspect that should be developed is the challenge related to communication, technology transfer and dissemination, providing policy-makers with effective tools that are directly applicable in defining sector policies [41]. As a general result, the hierarchy among actors has undoubtedly been identified, highlighting their so-called "social power," namely, their respective roles and influence in decision-making processes, and clarifying the political role that each actor has in an often opaque context, where, in addition to structural positions, direct relations between individuals are also significant.…”

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Implementing Participatory Processes in Forestry Training Using Social Network Analysis Techniques

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Lingua

Bioglio

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Forests

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Public participation has become an important driver in increasing public acceptance of policy decisions, especially in the forestry sector, where conflicting interests among the actors are frequent. Stakeholder Analysis, complemented by Social Network Analysis techniques, was used to support the participatory process and to understand the complex relationships and the strong interactions among actors. This study identifies the forestry training sector stakeholders in the Western Italian Alps and describes their characteristics and priorities, in relation to training activities on entrepreneurial topics for forestry loggers. The hierarchy among actors has been identified, highlighting their respective roles and influence in decision-making processes. A lack of mutual communication among different and well-separated categories of actors has been identified, while good connections between stakeholders, operating in different territories, despite the presence of administrative and logistical barriers, have been observed. Training is a topic involving actors with different roles and interests. Nevertheless, all actors consider training about how to improve yields of forest operations and how to assess investments, particularly in innovative machinery, to be crucially important and conducive to a better comprehension of the wood supply chain and the enhancement of the raw material.

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Implementing Participatory Processes in Forestry Training Using Social Network Analysis Techniques

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Lingua

Bioglio

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Forests

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“…The physical buffer system reports less carbon storage than initially calculated, which is a common means to prevent heterogeneity and uncertainty issues. A carbon reserve buffers deviations caused by heterogeneous and uncertain forest conditions based on the difference between the amount of carbon stored after the contract closure and what was anticipated in the reference scenario [7,23,34]. Uncertainties in the calculation parameters can stem from their inherent stochasticity (e.g., local climate), entanglement (e.g., tail dependence effects strengthened by climate change; [15]), a lack of reliable data (e.g., soil condition, browsing pressure), not to mention the knowledge gap regarding phenomena that are only now coming to light (e.g., storage capacity of upper soil horizons or old-growth versus recent forests; [35][36][37]).…”

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“…To cite only mitigation, a sizeable body of literature explores the direct influence of forest management on above-and below-ground carbon Forests 2021, 12, 386 2 of 21 storage [4]. However, mitigation is rarely tackled from the perspective of its social or economic consequences (e.g., [5])-with the notable exceptions of investigations into the Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) program [6] and in some European case studies [7,8].…”

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Efficient, Sustainable, and Multifunctional Carbon Offsetting to Boost Forest Management: A Comparative Case Study

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Génin

Trommetter

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Research highlights: Funding forest management with subsidies from carbon offsetters is a well-documented mechanism in tropical regions. This article provides complementary insights into the use of voluntary offset contracts in temperate forests. Background and objectives: The mitigation of greenhouse emissions has become a major global issue, leading to changes in forest management to increase the capacity of forests to store carbon. This can lead to conflicts of use with other forest ecosystem services such as timber production or biodiversity conservation. Our main goal is to describe collective actions to fund carbon-oriented forestry with subsidies from carbon offsetters and to analyze how their governance and functioning prevent conflicts pertaining to multi-functionality. Materials and methods: We assembled an interdisciplinary research team comprising two ecologists, a social scientist, and an economist. Drawing on a conceptual framework of ecosystem services, social interdependencies, and collective action, we based our qualitative analysis on semi-structured interviews from two French case studies. Results: Carbon-oriented intermediary forest organizations offer offset contracts to private firms and public bodies. Communication is geared toward the mitigation outcomes of the contracts as well as their beneficial side effects in providing the ecosystem services of interest to the offsetters. Subsidies then act as a financial lever to fund carbon-oriented forestry operations. Scientific committees and reporting methodologies serve as environmental, social, and economic safeguards. Conclusions: These new intermediary forest organizations use efficient forest operations and evaluation methodologies to improve forest carbon storage. Their main innovation lies in their collective governance rooted in regional forest social-ecological systems. Their consideration of multi-functionality and socioeconomic issues can be seen as an obstacle to rapid development, but they ensure sustainability and avoid conflicts between producers and beneficiaries of forest ecosystem services. Attention must be paid to interactions with broader spatial and temporal carbon policies.

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“…On the other hand, their role can be relevant only within a certain threshold of event intensity and frequency (similar to the artificial structures, but unlike land use limitations), and they are subject to events that can compromise their effectiveness (such as fires and pathogen outbreaks) [19]. In any case, questions related to the possible ES trade-offs [66,67] and to the profitability of the interventions still remain, given the high harvesting costs of these stands [41,61,68].…”

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A Framework for the Integration of Nature-Based Solutions into Environmental Risk Management Strategies

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Mountainous areas are expected to face increasing societal pressure due to mass tourism and the rising intensity and frequency of natural hazards triggered by climate change. Therefore, the development of proper strategies for the management of environmental risks will be crucial to ensure their liveability. Against this backdrop, concepts such as territorial resilience and Social–Ecological Systems (SES) can support the prioritisation of protective efforts. This paper presents a conceptual framework to be applied to areas subject to natural hazards. Its aim is to support the integration of different measures, with a special focus on protection forests and other Nature-based Solutions, into current risk management strategies. The framework considers (i) the definition of SES boundaries; (ii) the identification of the main goals to be achieved; (iii) the quantification of the supply and demand of the ecosystem protection service; and (iv) the development of risk management strategies able to include the management of protection forests among the adopted solutions. This framework is intended as a tool to be adopted by local and regional decision-makers as a tool to identify the areas at risk, to recognise the potential role of protection forests, and to operationalise the concept of resilience through the deployment of “grey-green” strategies.

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An integrated approach to assess carbon credit from improved forest management

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Implementing Participatory Processes in Forestry Training Using Social Network Analysis Techniques

Implementing Participatory Processes in Forestry Training Using Social Network Analysis Techniques

Efficient, Sustainable, and Multifunctional Carbon Offsetting to Boost Forest Management: A Comparative Case Study

A Framework for the Integration of Nature-Based Solutions into Environmental Risk Management Strategies

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