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Adapting to Climate Change
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Evidence that the cumulative effects of human activities are changing the world’s climate has become all but irrefutable. What will it mean for the world’s forests? Grim threat or opportunity for growth? In the absence of certainty, it depends on the point of view.
The question of how forests and forest-dependent people will adapt to climate change is a growing area of research and has been at the heart of a number of recent conferences. One of these, the international conference on Adaptation of Forests and Forest Management to Changing Climate with Emphasis on Forest Health: A Review of Science, Policies and Practices (Umeå, Sweden, August 2008), spawned the contents of this special double issue of Unasylva. The conference, organized by FAO, the International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO) and the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, brought together over 300 researchers, managers and decision-makers from 50 countries.
This issue includes a varied sample of presentations from the Umeå conference. Interested readers will find other generally more technical offerings, as well as further detail on some of the studies covered here, in upcoming issues of Forest Ecology and Management and Forest Policy and Economics. Both were planned, in coordination with Unasylva, in lieu of published proceedings.
Unasylva No. 231/232
Vol. 60, 2009/1-2
Year: 2009
Type: Report
Editor: A. Perlis
Editorial Advisory Board:
F. Castañeda, T. Hofer, D. Kneeland, A. Perlis, P. Vantomme, M.L. Wilkie
Emeritus Advisers:
J. Ball, I.J. Bourke, C. Palmberg-Lerche, L. Russo
Regional Advisers:
F. Bojang, C. Carneiro, P. Durst, P. Koné, K. Prins
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