Forest Management Focused on Climate Change Mitigation: The Development of Long-Term Carbon Sinks
A special issue of Climate (ISSN 2225-1154).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 March 2022) | Viewed by 39823
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Interests: forest management; sustainability; circular economy; biomass energy; rural development
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Interests: ecological restoration; nature-based solutions for agricultural lands
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Interests: flora; geobotany; management of natural plant heritage; natural and seminatural habitats; vegetation
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2. Departamento de Fitotecnia, Pólo da Mitra, Universidade de Évora, 7002-554 Évora, Portugal
Interests: mathematical modeling of tree growth and the construction of spatially explicit growth models; development of computer applications of the mentioned growth models; development of decision support models applied to the sustainable management of forest stands
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Climate change now appears as the biggest problem humanity has ever faced. Since the purpose of this Special Issue is not to discuss the role of humans in the development of climate change in itself, it is intended to address methodologies that act as mitigating actions of climate change and that contribute to the reduction and elimination of the impacts caused by them. Forests are admittedly a space, natural or not, that acts as a carbon sink as trees have the ability to capture and sequester atmospheric carbon in large quantities. However, it will be the forest management model that will define the carbon residence time, mainly by managing the rotation time of the forest species, creating models with the capacity to conserve, store or replace carbon levels. This Special Issue will focus on forest management models as a carbon sink regular procedure with the capacity to work as negative emissions technology (NET), on a climate change mitigation path. On the one hand, several innovative and alternative concepts could be presented, but also the topics of energy policy, circular economy, life cycle assessment, and supply chain could play a major role. Models on various temporal and geographical scales could be developed to understand the conditions of technical as well as organizational change. New methods of modeling, which can fulfil technical and physical boundary conditions and nevertheless consider economic environmental and social aspects, can be presented and developed as well.
Dr. Leonel Jorge Ribeiro Nunes
Dr. Catarina Isabel Rodrigues Meireles
Prof. Dr. Carlos José Pinto Gomes
Prof. Dr. Nuno Manuel Cabral de Almeida Ribeiro
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- climate change
- mitigation procedures
- carbon sinks
- forest management
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