Water, climate change, and forests: watershed stewardship for a changing climate

Furniss, Michael J.; Staab, Brian; Hazelhurst, Sherry; Clifton, Cathrine F.; Roby, Kenneth B.; Ilhadrt, Bonnie L.; Todd, Albert H.; Reid, Leslie M.; Hines, Sarah; Bennett, Karen A.; Luce, Charles H.; Edwards, Pamela J.

doi:10.2737/pnw-gtr-812

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“…In contrast, the water utility serving New York City, for example, satisfies the needs of more than 10 million people by tapping water from the Catskill and Delaware catchments, which are 90 % forested (Furniss et al, 2010). To date, this has enabled the city to avoid substantial water treatment costs (Germain et al, 2007).…”

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“…A forested catchment often reduces storm run-off, stabilises stream banks, shades surface water, cycles nutrients and filters pollutants (Furniss et al, 2010), but when it is degraded or deforested it loses these functions. For the CRSWB, data obtained from the respondents indicates a degraded catchment, with details in Table 3 showing the rising financial implications in percentage terms over a period of 7 years (2005)(2006)(2007)(2008)(2009)(2010)(2011).…”

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Coupling utility performance targets with catchment management

Ezeji¹,

Smout²,

Bosher³

2013

Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Municipal E

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2 3Institutional reform of state-owned water utilities serving urban areas has often set out to turn them into effective and efficient organisations, so that they can become excellent service providers. However, the pursuit of such objectives, which are often based on commercial targets, woefully ignores efficient catchment management. In view of this, this study reviews the case of the Cross State Water Board (CRSWB) Ltd in Calabar, eastern Nigeria. It identifies the serial neglect of the local watershed as a factor responsible for its operational and maintenance costs. It therefore argues for the need to develop and integrate catchment or ecosystem indicators into overall performance indicators currently used in setting and monitoring performance by the water utility as well as other utilities elsewhere, their owners or regulators. Such socio-ecological considerations as manifest in a catchment, according to the paper, are vital in building appropriate resilience against hazard risks such as flooding, land erosion, land inundation and salt water intrusion which currently plague the CRSWB, hence offering a bold and sustainable road map towards service efficiency and effectiveness for the growing urban population under a variable climate.

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Coupling utility performance targets with catchment management

Ezeji¹,

Smout²,

Bosher³

2013

Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Municipal E

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“…They host millions of human visitors annually (FEMAT, 1993). They help to regulate the quality and quantity of fresh water (Furniss et al, 2010). Forests of the Pacific Northwest have some of the greatest potential for carbon sequestration in the U.S. and in the world (Keith et al, 2009;Ryan et al, 2010); forests on federal lands in the region have accumulated carbon in recent decades (Krankina et al, 2012).…”

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Recent tree mortality and recruitment in mature and old-growth forests in western Washington

Acker

Boetsch

Bivin

et al. 2015

Forest Ecology and Management

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“…Forests are source areas for clean water. In the U.S., national forests are the largest source of drinking water [17]. Forests regulate flow patterns and maintain water quality by filtering sediments, nutrients and other contaminants from runoff, reducing the need for water treatment infrastructure [8,[18][19][20].…”

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Managing Forests for Water in the Anthropocene—The Best Kept Secret Services of Forest Ecosystems

Creed

Weber

Accatino

et al. 2016

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Water and forests are inextricably linked. Pressures on forests from population growth and climate change are increasing risks to forests and their aquatic ecosystem services (AES). There is a need to incorporate AES in forest management but there is considerable uncertainty about how to do so. Approaches that manage forest ecosystem services such as fiber, water and carbon sequestration independently ignore the inherent complexities of ecosystem services and their responses to management actions, with the potential for unintended consequences that are difficult to predict. The ISO 31000 Risk Management Standard is a standardized framework to assess risks to forest AES and to prioritize management strategies to manage risks within tolerable ranges. The framework consists of five steps: establishing the management context, identifying, analyzing, evaluating and treating the risks. Challenges to implementing the framework include the need for novel models and indicators to assess forest change and resilience, quantification of linkages between forest practice and AES, and the need for an integrated systems approach to assess cumulative effects and stressors on forest ecosystems and AES. In the face of recent international agreements to protect forests, there are emerging opportunities for international leadership to address these challenges in order to protect both forests and AES.

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Water, climate change, and forests: watershed stewardship for a changing climate

Cited by 65 publications

References 25 publications

Coupling utility performance targets with catchment management

Coupling utility performance targets with catchment management

Recent tree mortality and recruitment in mature and old-growth forests in western Washington

Managing Forests for Water in the Anthropocene—The Best Kept Secret Services of Forest Ecosystems

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