Abstract
Climate change beliefs and forest management in eastern Oregon: implications for individual adaptive capacity
Highlights
As climate change adaptation theory develops there is growing interest in understanding the conditions that provide opportunities for and barriers to adaptation among institutions and individuals (Moser and Ekstrom 2010, Biesbroek et al 2013, Klein et al 2014, Eisenack et al 2014)
We found that intentional climate change adaptation had low salience among participants, though a large majority of forest owners were active managers motivated by other goals, contributing to widespread incidental adaptation
We found that nonindustrial private forest owners who engaged in or considered intentional climate adaptation actions generally believed that anthropogenic climate change is occurring
Summary
As climate change adaptation theory develops there is growing interest in understanding the conditions that provide opportunities for and barriers to adaptation among institutions and individuals (Moser and Ekstrom 2010, Biesbroek et al 2013, Klein et al 2014, Eisenack et al 2014). An individual’s adaptive capacity describes their ability to respond successfully to climate variability and change based on adjustments to behavior, resources, and technologies (modified from Adger et al 2007). Evidence indicates that individual landowners are beginning to consider climate change adaptation actions in forestry in North America and Europe, with self-reported rates of implementation varying from very low to moderate (Keskitalo et al 2011, Blennow 2012, van Gameren and Zaccai 2015, Bissonnette et al 2017, Vulturius et al 2018). Forest management decisions have decadal and centennial-scale repercussions for forest landscapes, enhancing the importance of understanding opportunities for and barriers to climate-adaptive forest management (Lawrence and Gillett 2011, Schoene and Bernier 2012, van Gameren and Zaccai 2015)
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