Abstract
The theoretical concept of “climate-smart forestry” aims to integrate climate change mitigation and adaptation to maintain and enhance forests’ contributions to people and global agendas. We carried out two local transdisciplinary collaboration processes with the aim of developing local articulations of climate-smart forestry and to identify barriers, pathways and indicators to applying it in practice. During workshops in northern and southern Sweden, local stakeholders described how they would like forests to be managed, considering their past experiences, future visions and climate change. As a result, the stakeholders framed climate-smart forestry as active and diverse management towards multiple goals. They identified several conditions that could act both as barriers and pathways for its implementation in practice, such as value chains for forest products and services, local knowledge and experiences of different management alternatives, and the management of ungulates. Based on the workshop material, a total of 39 indicators for climate-smart forestry were identified, of which six were novel indicators adding to the existing literature. Our results emphasize the importance of understanding the local perspectives to promote climate-smart forestry practices across Europe. We also suggest how the concept of climate-smart forestry can be further developed, through the interplay between theory and practice.
Highlights
Introduction iationsForest management plays a key role in mitigating climate change and its potential negative impacts [1]
In reflexive forestry, a shared understanding of forest management is fostered through collaborative processes including multiple stakeholders representing different ways of thinking, knowing about and working practices in the forest [19]
While our local articulations and indicators will be specific to these locations, we do think they can provide valuable feedback to the previous definitions and indicators of climate-smart forestry, for example, [12,15], which we discuss in this chapter
Summary
Forest management plays a key role in mitigating climate change and its potential negative impacts [1]. As a result of climate change, increasing forest disturbance can be expected, in boreal and coniferous forests [2]. These disturbances can have both positive and negative impacts on forests’ potential to mitigate climate change [3]. Several papers have reviewed how forest management can be better adapted to the changing climate [4,5,6,7,8,9]. Several authors are arguing for their integration to achieve “climate-smart forestry” [12,13,14,15]
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