Exploring opportunities of forestr in Britain to mitigate climate change

Lemberg

2009

S. 119-132

2 Abb., 2 Tab., zahlr. Lit. Ang.

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Climate change is widely recognised as the most serious environmental threat facing mankind, which has diverse local, regional and global consequences. Many climate policy and research initiatives that focus on carbon uptake are directed towards both woodland expansion and using wood as a substitute for fossil fuels. However, there is a knowledge gap with respect to the socio-economic aspects of carbon sequestration forest policy activities. It is important to identify projects which will be coherent, effective, efficient, widely accepted by the public, and consistent with other aspects of policy for sustainable development. From an interdisciplinary perspective and based on the ideas of ecological economics, this paper addresses the necessity of reconciling sustainable development with carbon sequestration forest policy initiatives. It identifies the importance of placing forestry and biomass production for carbon sequestration in the general context of land use in Britain, where policy reforms and contemporary agricultural change will likely be influential.