The Role Of Forest Ecosystem Services To Support The Green Recovery

Author : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2023-08-02
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789251380338

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The role of forest ecosystem services to support the green recovery by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Pdf

Forests are an important component of natural capital and deliver a broad range of ecosystem services that underpin human well-being. The extent and condition of forests in many parts of the world, however, have declined dramatically during the preceding decades due to unsustainable harvesting of timber, forest fires, urbanization, and conversion to agriculture. At the same time the acknowledged importance of forest ecosystem services (FES) continues to grow, particularly the need for climate change mitigation and adaptation. This paper is a background document developed for the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) report on The State of the World’s Forests (SOFO) 2022. It reflects the results of a collaboration between FAO and the Foundation for Sustainable Development (FSD) to update the Ecosystem Services Valuation Database (ESVD). The compilation of systematically reviewed and standardized economic values of FES consolidated in the ESVD includes value estimates for all FES in nine forest ecosystem types and mangroves as per The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB) and the System of Environmental-Economic Accounting (SEEA) classifications. This paper offers an improved understanding of the role of forests in sustainable development, and highlights the potential of forests to provide a pathway towards greater resilience and a green recovery.

Author : Ajith H. Perera,Urmas Peterson,Guillermo Martínez Pastur,Louis R. Iverson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319745152

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Ecosystem Services from Forest Landscapes by Ajith H. Perera,Urmas Peterson,Guillermo Martínez Pastur,Louis R. Iverson Pdf

Over the last two decades, the topic of forest ecosystem services has attracted the attention of researchers, land managers, and policy makers around the globe. The services rendered by forest ecosystems range from intrinsic to anthropocentric benefits that are typically grouped as provisioning, regulating, supporting, and cultural. The research efforts, assessments, and attempts to manage forest ecosystems for their sustained services are now widely published in scientific literature. This volume focuses on broad-scale aspects of forest ecosystem services, beyond individual stands to large landscapes. In doing so, it illustrates the conceptual and practical opportunities as well as challenges involved with planning for forest ecosystem services across landscapes, regions, and nations. The goal here is to broaden the scope of land use planning through the adoption of a landscape-scale approach. Even though this approach is complex and involves multiple ecological, social, cultural, economic, and political dimensions, the landscape perspective appears to offer the best opportunity for a sustained provision of forest ecosystem services.

Author : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2022-05-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789251359846

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The State of the World’s Forests 2022 by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Pdf

Against the backdrop of the Glasgow Leaders’ Declaration on Forests and Land Use and the pledge of 140 countries to eliminate forest loss by 2030 and to support restoration and sustainable forestry, the 2022 edition of The State of the World’s Forests (SOFO) explores the potential of three forest pathways for achieving green recovery and tackling multidimensional planetary crises, including climate change and biodiversity loss. The three interrelated pathways are halting deforestation and maintaining forests; restoring degraded lands and expanding agroforestry; and sustainably using forests and building green value chains. The balanced, simultaneous pursuit of these pathways can generate sustainable economic and social benefits for countries and their rural communities, help sustainably meet increasing global demand for materials, and address environmental challenges. The State of the World’s Forests 2022 presents evidence on the feasibility and value of these pathways and outlines initial steps that could be taken to further pursue them. There is no time to lose – action is needed now to keep the global temperature increase below 1.5 °C, reduce the risk of future pandemics, ensure food security and nutrition for all, eliminate poverty, conserve the planet’s biodiversity and offer young people hope of a better world and a better future for all.

Author : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11-10
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789251383575

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Towards more resilient and diverse planted forests by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Pdf

FAO’s most recent global synthesis on planted forests was released in 2009 and the last Unasylva on planted forests was published in 2005. Developed together with a coalition of external partners, including the International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO) task force on planted forests and the TreeDivNet network, Issue 254 hereby responds to the need for wider information-sharing on data, tools and approaches available for leveraging the contributions of planted forests to meet the target of increasing the global forest area of 3 percent by 2030, which Global Forest Goal 1 provides for. Unasylva issue 254 was launched in November 2023 at the International Congress on Planted Forests 2023 (ICPF2023) – the first edition of this global forum to be held in Africa (Nairobi, Kenya).

Author : Forest Service (U.S.)
Publisher : Government Printing Office
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0160943604

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Trees at Work by Forest Service (U.S.) Pdf

This guide showcases the increasing interest in ecosystem services, discusses the motivations for valuations of FES (forest ecosystem services) at the State level, and places this work in the context of economic accounting. Readers may be interested in this report to expand their understanding of approaches used and value forest ecosystem services. However, the intended target audience for this report is State forestry officials charged with requesting, selecting, guiding, and evaluating the results of FES assessments in their states. Foresters, construction officials utilizing forest based products, educators, instructors and students in the fields of environmental science and forestry, environmentalists, and investors in the forest products category may also be interested in this work. Check out our Environment & Nature resources collection here:https://bookstore.gpo.gov/catalog/environment-nature Trees & Forests collection here:https://bookstore.gpo.gov/catalog/environment-nature Water Management collection here: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/catalog/water-management

Author : Erik Meijaard,Douglas Sheil,Manuel R. Guariguata,Robert Nasi,Terry Sunderland,Louis Putzel
Publisher : CIFOR
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2011-09-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9786028693592

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Ecosystem services certification: Opportunities and constraints by Erik Meijaard,Douglas Sheil,Manuel R. Guariguata,Robert Nasi,Terry Sunderland,Louis Putzel Pdf

A major challenge in trading ecosystem services is the need to quantify and commoditise services, for monitoring and verification as well as for trade. This is relatively straightforward for goods such as forest honey or shade-grown coffee, but potentially complex for services such as water purification, reducing risk from floods or other disasters or carbon sequestration. Developing certification systems for forest ecosystem services is one potential way to define, quantify and verify these services in a way that buyers can trust, and this is why certification of ecosystem services is promoted by a number of environmental and forestry NGOs. Certification of ecosystem services is a useful concept, but many practical and theoretical obstacles must be addressed before it can be put into practice. This paper is a review of existing development in certification of ecosystem services, with information useful for designing and implementing projects to evaluate the efficacy of new systems. We discuss the potential use of more holistic concepts for measuring management sustainability, which are to date undeveloped and untested, and recommend developing pilot projects that are specifically designed to address a number of challenges inherent to ecosystem service certification.

Author : Robert A. Smail
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2010-10
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781437928310

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Forest Land Conversion, Ecosystem Services, and Economic Issues for Policy by Robert A. Smail Pdf

The continued conversion and development of forest land pose a serious threat to the ecosystem services derived from forested landscapes. There are unavoidable challenges involved in quantifying the threats from forest conversion and their related costs to human well-being: (1) most attempts to quantify the costs of forest conversion on ecosystem services will necessarily rely on specific ecological science that is often emerging, changing, or simply nonexistent; (2) given the interconnected nature of ecosystem products and processes, any attempt to quantify the effects of forest conversion must grapple with jointness in production; (3) the ecology and the human dimensions of ecosystems are highly specific to spatial-temporal circumstances.

Author : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2022-05-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789251359853

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In Brief to The State of the World’s Forests 2022 by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Pdf

The In Brief version of the FAO flagship publication, the State of the World's Forests 2022, contains the key messages and main points from the publication and is aimed at the media, policy makers and a more general public.

Author : National Research Council,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 77 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-23
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780309287586

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Urban Forestry by National Research Council,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate Pdf

Much of the ecological research in the past decades has focused on rural or wilderness areas. Today, however, ecological research has been taking place in our cities, where our everyday decisions can have profound effects on our environment. This research, or urban ecology, includes an important element, trees. Trees have had a variety of environmental benefits for our environment including the sequestering carbon, reducing urban heat island effects, providing vital habitat for wildlife, and making nature accessible. These benefits have important impacts on the physical, socio-economic, and mental health of humans as well. Being exposed to trees has been shown to enhance social cohesion, improve health and recreational opportunities, and increase real estate values. In order to gain more knowledge into this urban forestry, the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) held a workshop February 25-26, 2013. The workshop brought together more than 100 people with various interests in urban forestry research to share information and perspectives, foster communication across specific areas of ecosystem service research, and consider integrated approaches that cut across these realms. The workshop specifically examined current capabilities to characterize and quantify the benefits, key gaps in our understanding, the challenges of planning urban forests in a way that optimizes multiple ecosystem services and more. Urban Forestry: Toward an Ecosystem Services Research Agenda: A Workshop Summary presents an overview of the issues discussed by the workshop's breakout groups; summarizes presentations from the four panels which included Biophysical Services of the Urban Forest; and context for the study with introductory material from the workshop.

Author : Forest Ecosystem Management Assessement Team (U.S.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1066 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Forest ecology
ISBN : WISC:89048626246

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Forest Ecosystem Management by Forest Ecosystem Management Assessement Team (U.S.) Pdf

Author : Jürgen Bauhus,Peter van der Meer,Markku Kanninen
Publisher : Earthscan
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781849776417

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Ecosystem Goods and Services from Plantation Forests by Jürgen Bauhus,Peter van der Meer,Markku Kanninen Pdf

Plantation forests often have a negative image. They are typically assumed to be poor substitutes for natural forests, particularly in terms of biodiversity conservation, carbon storage, provision of clean drinking water and other non-timber goods and services. Often they are monocultures that do not appear to invite people for recreation and other direct uses. Yet as this book clearly shows, they can play a vital role in the provision of ecosystem services, when compared to agriculture and other forms of land use or when natural forests have been degraded. This is the first book to examine explicitly the non-timber goods and services provided by plantation forests, including soil, water and biodiversity conservation, as well as carbon sequestration and the provision of local livelihoods. The authors show that, if we require a higher provision of ecosystem goods and services from both temperate and tropical plantations, new approaches to their management are required. These include policies, methods for valuing the services, the practices of small landholders, landscape approaches to optimise delivery of goods and services, and technical issues about how to achieve suitable solutions at the scale of forest stands. While providing original theoretical insights, the book also gives guidance for plantation managers, policy-makers, conservation practitioners and community advocates, who seek to promote or strengthen the multiple-use of forest plantations for improved benefits for society. Published with CIFOR

Author : Anonim
Publisher : CABI
Page : 553 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Forest management
ISBN : 9781845931759

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Sustainable Forestry by Anonim Pdf

In the context of forest sustainability, this book presents the issues related to both global climate change and conservation of biodiversity. It highlights four methodologies and shows how they contribute in overcoming the ecological challenges facing our world. The practical experience presented can be applied to the implementation of successful sustainable forestry policies.

Author : Stewart Maginnis,Jeffrey Sayer
Publisher : Earthscan
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781849771382

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Forests in Landscapes by Stewart Maginnis,Jeffrey Sayer Pdf

'At last a really useful book telling us how all the rhetoric about ecosystem approaches and sustainable forest management is being translated into practical solutions on the ground? CLAUDE MARTIN, WWF INTERNATIONAL For too long, foresters have seen forests as logs waiting to be turned into something useful. This book demonstrates that forests in fact have multiple values, and managing them as ecosystems will bring more benefits to a greater cross-section of the public? JEFFREY A. MCNEELY, CHIEF SCIENTIST, IUCN This book demonstrates that ecosystem approaches and sustainable forest management] are neither alternative methods of forest management nor are they simply complicated ways of saying the same thing. They are both emerging concepts for more integrated and holistic ways of managing forests within larger landscapes in ways that optimize benefits to all stakeholders? ACHIM STEINER AND IAN JOHNSON, FROM THE FOREWORD Recent innovations in Sustainable Forest Management and Ecosystem Approaches are resulting in forests increasingly being managed as part of the broader social-ecological systems in which they exist. Forests in Landscapes reviews changes that have occurred in forest management in recent decades. Case studies from Europe, Canada, the United States, Russia, Australia, the Congo and Central America provide a wealth of international examples of innovative practices. Cross-cutting chapters examine the political ecology and economics of forest management, and review the information needs and the use and misuse of criteria and indicators to achieve broad societal goals for forests. A concluding chapter draws out the key lessons of changes in forest management in recent decades and sets out some thoughts for the future. This book is a must-read for practitioners, researchers and policy makers concerned with forests and land use. It contains lessons for all those concerned with forests as sources of people's livelihoods and as part of rural landscapes. Published with IUCN and PROFOR

Author : Oliver Gardi,Beth A. Kaplin,Matthew J. McGrath,Anne Sofie Lansø,Guillaume Marie,Yi-Ying Chen,Tuomo Kalliokoski,Sebastiaan Luyssaert,Kim Naudts,Philippe Peylin,Aude Valade,Anne Oxbrough,Jaime Pinzón,Stephen Anderson,R. P. Udawatta
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2023-07-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1801466297

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Instant Insights Ecosystem Services De by Oliver Gardi,Beth A. Kaplin,Matthew J. McGrath,Anne Sofie Lansø,Guillaume Marie,Yi-Ying Chen,Tuomo Kalliokoski,Sebastiaan Luyssaert,Kim Naudts,Philippe Peylin,Aude Valade,Anne Oxbrough,Jaime Pinzón,Stephen Anderson,R. P. Udawatta Pdf

This collection provides a considered overview of the range of ecosystem services delivered by tropical, temperate and boreal forests. Chapters explore the role of forests in storing carbon, improving hydrological cycles and optimising soil health.

Author : CCICED
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2023-03-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789811994708

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Green Recovery with Resilience and High Quality Development by CCICED Pdf

This open access book is based on the research outputs of China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development (CCICED) in 2021. It covers major topics of Chinese and international attention regarding green development, such as climate, biodiversity, ocean, BRI, urbanization, sustainable production and consumption, technology, finance, value chain, and related topics. It also reviews the progress of China‘s environmental and development policies and the impacts from CCICED. This is a highly informative and carefully presented book, providing insight for policy makers in environmental issues.