The calm before the storm: How climate change drives forestry evolutions

Fouqueray, Timothée; Charpentier, Antoine; Trommetter, Michel; Frascaria‐Lacoste, Nathalie

doi:10.1016/j.foreco.2020.117880

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“…Concerning primary data analysis, a mix of quantitative and qualitative methods is used. Qualitative data collection is applied by 17% of papers, mainly adopting semi-structured interviews and questionnaires, e.g., [38,71,72]. These approaches dominate when Concerning primary data analysis, a mix of quantitative and qualitative methods is used.…”

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Windstorm Impacts on Forest-Related Socio-Ecological Systems: An Analysis from a Socio-Economic and Institutional Perspective

Romagnoli

Masiero

Secco

2022

Forests

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Windstorms are considered among the most impacting natural events for European forests and related Socio-Ecological Systems (SES). Given that their intensity and frequency are increasing, an in-depth understanding of their impacts is crucial to mitigate risks and potential negative effects. However, so far, scientific research on windstorm impacts has mainly focused on environmental dimensions, while socio-economic and institutional ones are rarely taken into consideration. Our analysis aims at enriching the current scientific knowledge on windstorm impacts on forest SES by providing an overview of the state-of-the-art academic investigations on windstorm impacts on socio-economic and institutional dimensions. Overall, 46 papers were reviewed to identify the most recurrent post-windstorm dynamics and drivers that influence resilience and adaptation of socio-economic, institutional and related governance dimensions of European forest SES. Results show that the current scientific knowledge on socio-economic impacts of windstorms mainly concentrates on forest-related stakeholders and sectors, paying little attention to the broader social, cultural and institutional drivers that contribute to forest SES resilience. Further, cascade effects linking environmental, social and institutional dimensions are poorly analyzed. This restricted focus could lead to an incomplete understanding of the dynamics shaping socio-economic adaptability to windstorms, affecting long-term and sustainable recovery from extreme natural events. To correctly frame effective, intersectoral and coordinated recovery strategies gaining a deeper understanding of human–environment interactions is needed, as well as acknowledging the positive influence of causal relationships in improving forest-related SES resilience.

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Windstorm Impacts on Forest-Related Socio-Ecological Systems: An Analysis from a Socio-Economic and Institutional Perspective

Romagnoli

Masiero

Secco

2022

Forests

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“…Climate studies carry much uncertainty, and forest research deals with issues related to individual preferences such as esthetic inclination, management intensity choices, or risk aversion. The ambiguity resulting from this intertwining of uncertainty and individual values can prejudice the scientific arguments of a study, as previously reported for the technical preferences of windstorm adaptation in forest management (Fouqueray et al 2020). Therefore, one way to pursue the best practices in transparent research is to spell out these individual values, so as not to allow scientists' biases to influence their readers.…”

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“…Publications have reviewed the "science of adaptation," such as the physiological and evolutive impacts of climate change on trees (Aitken et al 2008), or the evolutive processes favoring adaptation (Bussotti et al 2015). Publications in the "science for adaptation" discuss management practices in favor of adaptation (Keenan 2015;Marchi et al 2018) or report their implementation in the field (Nelson et al 2016;Fouqueray et al 2020). Further research on genetics, physiology, ecology, and climate studies is required to improve our knowledge of forest functioning under a changing climate.…”

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

Fouqueray

Frascaria‐Lacoste

2020

Annals of Forest Science

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& Key message Faced with wicked problems such as climate change, managers of complex forest social-ecological systems require more than experimental sciences alone. Yet, mitigation and adaptation studies underuse social sciences in forest research, as shown here with the French case study. Therefore, we stress the value of social sciences for forest researchers, and extend this reflection to research funding bodies, forest authorities, foresters, and society at large. We identify training and publications as the main levers for more holistic forest research, and posit that with short-, mid-, and long-term changes, social sciences can complement (not replace) experimental sciences in climate studies led by forest researchers.

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“…Although it makes sense to monitor how carbon-oriented operations directly influence the role of forests as carbon sinks, the neutral, positive, or negative effects of such operations on forest multifunctionality should not be overlooked [8]. Indeed, many forest stakeholders deem the simultaneous provision of different forest ecosystem services (ES) to be critical [9,10], especially the provision of timber and non-timber forest products, but also the esthetic value of managed landscapes for local communities or tourism development and the role of forest soils in water epuration, to name but a few [11].…”

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“…The rationale of this paper is to investigate how voluntary mitigation projects boost forest management from the perspective of three essential issues, namely the efficiency, sustainability, and multifunctionality of carbon storage. Drawing deductively on a literature review on forest carbon storage [23] and inductively on our experience with forest practitioners [9], we considered that these were the three best factors predicting the success of mitigation projects. The first factor relates to the efficiency of carbon offsetting.…”

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

Fouqueray

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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The calm before the storm: How climate change drives forestry evolutions

Abstract: Highlights-Climate change weakly modifies forestry compared to techno-economic evolutions.-Most adaptations focus on technical operations and ignore organizational changes.-Ecological processes are instrumental and applied at the forest stand scale.

Cited by 12 publications

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Windstorm Impacts on Forest-Related Socio-Ecological Systems: An Analysis from a Socio-Economic and Institutional Perspective

Windstorm Impacts on Forest-Related Socio-Ecological Systems: An Analysis from a Socio-Economic and Institutional Perspective

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

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

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