Social sciences have so much more to bring to climate studies in forest research: a French case study

Fouqueray, Timothée; Frascaria‐Lacoste, Nathalie

doi:10.1007/s13595-020-00989-3

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“…According to this vision, the enhancement of forest ES (carbon storage) stops where another (timber production, habitat preservation) begins. More specifically, we recommend proactively inviting any stakeholder showing interest in the carbon offsetting to take part in the process [5]. If required, distinct discussion arenas can be initiated to prevent the reemergence of long-standing conflicts (e.g., ethical, technical, scientific committees).…”

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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

Fouqueray

Génin

Trommetter

et al. 2021

Forests

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

Fouqueray

Génin

Trommetter

et al. 2021

Forests

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“…Since the first IPCC reports, social sciences have increasingly contributed to climate research (Kelly and Adger, 2000;Adger, 2003;Pelling and High, 2005;Smit and Wandel, 2006;Adger et al, 2009). Their contributions to climate science, and particularly to adaptation science, have been acknowledged by many researchers (Conrad, 2009;ISSC/UNESCO, 2013;Weaver et al, 2014;Ford et al, 2016;Holm and Winiwarter, 2017;Fouqueray and Frascaria-Lacoste, 2020). Yet, they remain insufficiently considered according to a part of the climate science community (Yearley, 2009;Weaver et al, 2014;Victor, 2015).…”

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Social science to accelerate coastal adaptation to sea-level rise

Philippenko,

Le Cozannet

2023

Camb. prisms Coast. futures

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The latest IPCC report estimates that approximately 1 billion people will be at risk from coastal hazards in the near term due to coastal population increase, sea-level rise and other coastal changes. This will occur in a world that is changing rapidly due to climate change, ecosystem decline, human development and the projected transformations of the economy to meet the objectives of the Paris Agreement. In this context, social sciences provide a pivotal perspective to coastal adaptation, for example, while assessing barriers and opportunities across scales, from local to global. This scoping review explores how social sciences support coastal adaptation. We show that Political Sciences, Economics, Sociology and Geography are already supporting coastal adaptation. Yet, scientific fields such as legal sciences, psychology, history and archaeology as well as anthropology and ethnography are less developed in the context of coastal adaptation to sea-level rise. New research avenues could also integrate education, media and communication research and aim at truly interdisciplinary studies linking different branches of social sciences with coastal science and climate services. This effort could help moving from a coastal adaptation often focused on coastal engineering protection to a broader vision of coastal resilient development, also addressing the challenges of mitigation, sustainable development and coastal ecosystem decline.

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“…Even within the sphere of physical science there is a need to integrate experimental and modeling approaches from a range of disciplines when researching climate change, as its effects cannot be neatly compartmentalized (Gornish et al, 2013). Nonetheless, an understanding of the natural processes involved is not sufficient to make useful decisions on adaptation; insights from the social sciences are needed to inform what Fouqueray and Frascaria-Lacoste (2020) call "an integrative and interdisciplinary science for adaptation". With the synergy of top-down and bottom-up methods shown to be most effective, there is a need to combine indigenous, local and scientific knowledge, which can only be done if outstanding research and information gathering is completed early in the process (Portner et al, 2022).…”

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Using the Implementation Centric Evolving Climate Change Adaptation Process to bridge the gap between policy and action

Wells,

Saggioro,

Petty

et al. 2023

Front. Clim.

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With climate impacts increasing in both frequency and intensity and unprecedented climate events having devastating results, the need for timely policy and action to support adaption is not in doubt. However, the gap between policy and action leaves many communities exposed to extreme events and vulnerable to loss of life and livelihoods. This is partly due to the difficulty policymakers face when confronted by climate projections with their inherent uncertainties. Competing sectoral interests and a lack of resources often compound such challenges. To address these issues, the Implementation Centric Evolving Climate Change Adaptation Process (ICECCAP) encases the climate risk assessment in an enabling framework to track resource, knowledge and regulatory needs. This process was applied as part of a UNEP project to support the National Adaptation Plan in Pakistan. A range of climate storylines, describing plausible climate futures and their potential environmental and socio-economic impacts, were developed and discussed with local stakeholders, including policy makers from across levels of governance. The process allowed us to translate complex physical science into narratives that could be communicated clearly to non-technical national stakeholders, forming a basis for subsequent negotiation and decision-making at a local level to address multiple risks and respond to adaptation needs at this finer resolution. This reflects our aim, as part of the My Climate Risk network, to amalgamate bottom-up climate risk assessment with climate projection data that remains meaningful at a local scale. We show how the integration of scientific research and local expert stakeholder views can promote buy-in to adaptation planning. Grounded in a systemic and comprehensive understanding of potential impacts of climate change, this process has implications across socio-economic, environmental and governance spheres.

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Social sciences have so much more to bring to climate studies in forest research: a French case study

Cited by 6 publications

References 55 publications

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

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

Social science to accelerate coastal adaptation to sea-level rise

Using the Implementation Centric Evolving Climate Change Adaptation Process to bridge the gap between policy and action

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