Carbon Storage and Forest Management
A special issue of Land (ISSN 2073-445X).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 May 2022) | Viewed by 2909
Special Issue Editor
2. Institute of Social Ecology (SEC), Department of Economics and Social Sciences, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Wien, Austria
Interests: forest carbon; forest transition; agricultural systems; organic farming; land ecosystems; long-term perspective on nutrient cycling; socio-ecological metabolism; field experimentation; prospective scenarios of land ecosystems management; nature-based solution for climate change mitigation
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Forests are key for climate change mitigation as they can act as a sink or source of carbon following different management and land cover change. Nevertheless, they are also endangered by numerous risks leading to net carbon emissions from forest biomass and soils in many countries of the world. Understanding the drivers and underlying mechanisms of forest carbon trends is therefore essential to forging future forest-based solutions for climate change mitigation. In that context, we are delighted to launch a Special Issue on “Carbon Storage and Forest Management” in Land which will contribute to the important scientific and societal issues regarding the effects of forest management on net carbon storage.
We welcome contributions from biophysical and social sciences as we consider that insights into the interplay between forest management and carbon storage shall impact the functioning of both ecosystems and society. We encourage submissions that will tackle issues regarding—but not restricted to—the following: (i) the role and interaction of different drivers on the global or national forest carbon balances; (ii) the trade-off between different ecosystem services provided by forests, including climate regulation, biodiversity, and wood and feed provision; (iii) the implementation of forest conservation policy; and (iv) forest-based solutions for climate change mitigation and their impacts on rural livelihood conditions. Long-term perspective, present analysis, and assessment of future possible scenarios are all suited to answer those questions.
Dr. Julia Le Noé
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Forest management
- Land cover change
- Forest carbon balance
- Ecosystem services
- Socio-ecological metabolism of forest
- Forest-based solution for climate change mitigation
- Rural livelihood conditions
- Forest policy
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