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Building resilient forest landscapes to cope with global change


Can Forest Managers Plan for Resilient Landscapes? Lessons from ...

... Forests adapt to climate change through science–management partnerships. ... (2018) Evidence for declining forest resilience to wildfires under climate change.

Biodiversity - our strongest natural defense against climate change

The Earth's land and the ocean serve as natural carbon sinks, absorbing large amounts of greenhouse gas emissions. Conserving and restoring natural spaces, and ...

How five Indian communities are adapting to climate change

Adaptation also helps in building long-term resilience to the impacts of climate change. ... "A combination of unsustainable landscape planning, ...

Climate Change and Land - IPCC

... international negotiations and actions to tackle climate change. The ... Change and Forestry. The IPCC Special Report on Extreme Events discussed ...

Fifth National Climate Assessment, Chapter 7: Forests

These changes are limiting the capacity of forest ecosystems to store carbon, provide clean water and air, produce timber and other products, and offer ...

What is "Blue Carbon" and How Can It Tackle the Climate Crisis?

These “blue carbon ecosystems” offer a natural solution to remove carbon from the atmosphere, build resilience to mounting climate change ...

Adaptation Strategies: ERIT - Environmental Resilience Institute

An adaptation strategy is a program, project or approach that has been developed to respond to anticipated climate change impacts in a specific area of ...

Resilience of People and Ecosystems under Climate Stress

the challenge of building resilience to climate change, with ... tackle climate change and its drivers and develop climate-resilient health.

FACT SHEET: Biden-⁠Harris Administration Announces Roadmap ...

These actions can increase resilience to threats like flooding and extreme heat, and can slow climate change by capturing and storing carbon ...

WCS Forests and Climate Change - Wildlife Conservation Society

1. Protecting high-integrity forests and peatlands · 2. Reducing deforestation and forest degradation · 3. Restoring forests in and around priority landscapes · 4.

Climate change - WWF Arctic

We must conserve, protect and sustainably manage Arctic nature, building the resilience of these land- and seascapes. ... landscapes impacted by climate change.

Climate Change Resilience: The case of Haiti - Oxfam

In order to build resilience to climate change, the government should focus on flood control, energy and forestry, and agriculture. We propose a flood control ...

Building Resilient Ecosystems | African Wildlife Foundation

Conservation activities like agroforestry, reforestation, and sustainable land-use planning build community resilience to the effects of climate change and can ...

RESILAND CA: Flagship of Peace Forest Initiative tackles land ...

Investing in landscape restoration is critical to address the complex nexus of local livelihoods, land degradation, climate change, ...

Case Studies | U.S. Climate Resilience Toolkit

Communities, businesses, and individuals are taking action to document their vulnerabilities and build resilience to climate-related impacts.

RESILIENT FOREST LANDSCAPES: - RECOFTC

This includes building community resilience to cope with the impacts of climate change, increasing institutional and livelihood resilience, and implementing ...

U.S. Leadership Advances Global Efforts to Conserve Critical ...

The Plan to Conserve Global Forests: Critical Carbon Sinks has been devised to catalyze even more ambitious global action to capture that ...

Ecologist engagement in translational science is imperative for ...

The causes and consequences of global change are well-documented, as are mitigation and adaptation strategies.

Climate Change | What We Do | U.S. Agency for International ...

Reducing emissions by combating deforestation and improving conservation and management of carbon-rich forests and landscapes. Safety. Helping communities and ...

What are nature-based solutions and how can they help us address ...

Home to 80% of the world's terrestrial biodiversity, forests provide clean air and water, protect against erosion and landslides, and help to ...