Assessing the likelihood of widespread landholder adoption of afforestation and reforestation projects

Schirmer, Jacki; Bull, Lyndall

doi:10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2013.11.009

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“…As a consequence, new woodland has been marginalized to less productive land which has important implications for climate change mitigation practices because they have to fit with the land made available by landholders rather than follow a notional technical optimum; similar findings are reported for Australia [56]. This is particularly important for Scotland because our analysis suggests that much new woodland is established on LCA class 6 3 and 5 3 which are on wetter soils.…”

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Comparing Path Dependence and Spatial Targeting of Land Use in Implementing Climate Change Responses

Brown

Castellazzi

Feliciano

2014

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Land use patterns are the consequence of dynamic processes that often include important legacy issues. Evaluation of past trends can be used to investigate the role of path dependence in influencing future land use through a reference "business as usual" (BAU) scenario. These issues are explored with regard to objectives for woodland expansion in Scotland as a major pillar of climate change policy. Land use changes based upon recent trends and future transient scenarios to 2050 are used to assess viability of targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions using analysis based on net emission change factors. The BAU scenario is compared with alternative future scenarios incorporating policy targets and stronger spatial targeting of land use change. Analysis highlights recent trends in new woodland planting on lower quality agricultural land due to socioeconomic and cultural factors. This land is mainly in the wetter uplands and often on carbon-rich soils. Woodland planting following this path dependence can therefore result in net carbon emissions for many years into the future due to soil disturbance during establishment. In contrast, alternative scenarios with more lowland woodland planting have net sequestration potential, with greatest benefits when carbon-rich soils are excluded from afforestation. Spatial targeting can also enhance other co-benefits such as habitat networks and climate change adaptation.

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Section: Interpretation Of Recent Trendssupporting

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Comparing Path Dependence and Spatial Targeting of Land Use in Implementing Climate Change Responses

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Castellazzi

Feliciano

2014

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“…Reforestation is an important tool for mitigating dryland salinity and land degradation (George et al, 2012). In addition, reforestation improves biodiversity and conservation values provides income to land holders through forest resources, carbon credits and offset schemes, and successfully remediates and reclaims land that is otherwise unproductive (Bartle et al, 2007;Lal, 2008;Smith, 2008;Schirmer & Bull, 2014). As soil degradation is a global issue, there is currently much research into reclamation and amelioration of saline and/or sodic soils (e.g.…”

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Does Biochar Improve Establishment of Tree Seedlings in Saline Sodic Soils?

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“…The share of articles on public acceptance was low compared to other NETs. As with soil carbon sequestration and biochar, discussion is typically focused on private landholders (Schirmer andBull 2014, Trevisan et al 2016), rarely going into realm of the public and their attitudes, beyond occasional economic incentives. AR directly impacts on the visual features of a landscape, so it is surprising to see such a lack of engagement between sequestration studies and the rich literature on landscape aesthetics and social/cultural expectations of 'nature' (Hunziker 1995, Daniel 2001.…”

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“…We do see some critical discussions of the impacts of 'carbon farming' (Funk et al 2014), water use (Jackson et al 2005), nutrient cycling (Smith and Torn 2013), and the need for stakeholder engagement (Atela et al 2016). A survey on attitudes toward AR was a notable exception to the dearth in this area (Nijnik and Halder 2013), including also a survey by Schirmer and Bull (2014).…”

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Negative emissions—Part 3: Innovation and upscaling

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Callaghan

Creutzig

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Environ. Res. Lett.

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We assess the literature on innovation and upscaling for negative emissions technologies (NETs) using a systematic and reproducible literature coding procedure. To structure our review, we employ the framework of sequential stages in the innovation process, with which we code each NETs article in innovation space. We find that while there is a growing body of innovation literature on NETs, 59% of the articles are focused on the earliest stages of the innovation process, 'research and development' (R&D). The subsequent stages of innovation are also represented in the literature, but at much lower levels of activity than R&D. Distinguishing between innovation stages that are related to the supply of the technology (R&D, demonstrations, scale up) and demand for the technology (demand pull, niche markets, public acceptance), we find an overwhelming emphasis (83%) on the supply side. BECCS articles have an above average share of demand-side articles while direct air carbon capture and storage has a very low share. Innovation in NETs has much to learn from successfully diffused technologies; appealing to heterogeneous users, managing policy risk, as well as understanding and addressing public concerns are all crucial yet not well represented in the extant literature. Results from integrated assessment models show that while NETs play a key role in the second half of the 21st century for 1.5 • C and 2 • C scenarios, the major period of new NETs deployment is between 2030 and 2050. Given that the broader innovation literature consistently finds long time periods involved in scaling up and deploying novel technologies, there is an urgency to developing NETs that is largely unappreciated. This challenge is exacerbated by the thousands to millions of actors that potentially need to adopt these technologies for them to achieve planetary scale. This urgency is reflected neither in the Paris Agreement nor in most of the literature we review here. If NETs are to be deployed at the levels required to meet 1.5 • C and 2 • C targets, then important post-R&D issues will need to be addressed in the literature, including incentives for early deployment, niche markets, scale-up, demand, and-particularly if deployment is to be hastened-public acceptance. Chen C and Tavoni M 2013 Direct air capture of CO 2 and climate stabilization: a model based assessment Clim. Change 118 59-72 Cheng N, Fürth M, Johnson M C, Tay Z Y, Shenoi R A and Wilson P A 2013 Engaging the community with a 'green town' concept Energy Procedia 37 7337-45 Choi S, Drese J H, Eisenberger P M and Jones C W 2011 Application of amine-tethered solid sorbents for direct CO 2 capture from the ambient air Environ. Sci. Technol. 45 2420-7 Coffman D M and Lockley A 2017 Carbon dioxide removal and the futures market Environ. Res. Lett. 12 015003 Cohen L R and Noll R G 1991 The Technology Pork Barrel (Washington: Brookings) Cohen W M, Goto A, Nagata A, Nelson R R and Walsh J R 2002 R&D spillovers, patents and the incentives to innovate in Japan and the United States Res. Policy ...

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Assessing the likelihood of widespread landholder adoption of afforestation and reforestation projects

Cited by 70 publications

References 54 publications

Comparing Path Dependence and Spatial Targeting of Land Use in Implementing Climate Change Responses

Comparing Path Dependence and Spatial Targeting of Land Use in Implementing Climate Change Responses

Does Biochar Improve Establishment of Tree Seedlings in Saline Sodic Soils?

Negative emissions—Part 3: Innovation and upscaling

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