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ArticleCountry study: Adaptation of forests to climate change – policy evolution and recent measures taken by Switzerland
XV World Forestry Congress, 2-6 May 2022
2022Also available in:
No results found.In Switzerland, science and policy institutions joined forces in 2009 to launch a research programme on forest adaptation to climate change. It formally ended in 2018 but has been linked to a series of formal steps (a first national global adaptation strategy in 2012, rapidly followed by an action plan 2014-19 and the current one 2020-25) as well as to complementary research-development initiatives. At a national governance level, the paper first analyses the integration of forestry in the cross-sectoral strategies and the role of interdepartmental platforms. It then focuses on the scientific progress made within the Swiss forestry sector: through the joint research programme and the participation of practitioners. The combination of scientifically backed field experiments and the opportunities offered by IT tools are presented. A national long term project on testing the performance of 18 planted tree species is ongoing. A new web application, tree app, is now available in order to offer a tool to promote and/or select the right future trees for which forest practitioners and forest owners are not the only target groups. Action research processes, case studies (marteloscopes) and general information is widely provided to a multi-disciplinary and public audience to facilitate the acceptance of the inevitable coming changes in terms of forest image and forest management. Finally, the paper highlights lessons learnt from this still ongoing process that could be of use to other countries. Keywords: Adaptive and integrated management, Climate change, Policies, Sustainable forest management, Knowledge management ID: 3486701 -
ArticleCriteria and Indicators framework to measure the sustainability of forest resources in India and their contribution to SDGs and GFGs
XV World Forestry Congress, 2-6 May 2022
2022Also available in:
No results found.With the adoption of sustainable development as Agenda 21 at the Earth Summit (1992), the global community reaffirmed its commitment to sustainable development at the World Summit on Social Development in Copenhagen in 1995, the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg in 2002, and at Rio + 20 in 2012. The outcome at Rio+20 was documented as “The Future We Want" into a set of SDGs (Sustainable development Goals) also known as the Agenda 2030 (2012). The efforts were also made to integrate the sustainable development goals into sustainable management of the world’s forests at the United Nations Forum on Forest (UNFF). These efforts fructified into the UN General Assembly in 2017 adopting a set of six Global Forest Goals (GFGs) and 26 associated targets to be achieved by 2030. Considering the Criteria & Indicators as a potent tool, the country’s across the world committed themselves to realize these global goals through the adoption of criteria and indicators’ approach for the management of their forest resources. In this process eleven regional and international initiatives have emerged, one of these is Regional Initiative for Dry Forests in Asia (also known as Bhopal- India Process). India developed its national set of C&I into 8 criteria and 37 indicators. These were then adopted and integrated into its national forest planning process at Forest Management Unit (FMU) level through National Working Plan Code (NWPC) 2014. Following the adoption of NWPC, the country needs to create a system of national monitoring and evaluation. The proposed paper is an attempt to evolve a set of applicable indicators along-with baseline value for periodic assessment. A comparison of the observed values of the identified indicators against the baseline would help understand the change in the forestry conditions and provide a framework for interpretation, measuring, and monitoring the sustainability of forest resources and their contribution to achieving SDGs and GFGs. Keywords: Criteria and indicator, Bhopal-India Process, Sustainable Forest Management ID:3486849 -
ArticleFuture issues of the forest sector in South Korea from the future workshop
XV World Forestry Congress, 2-6 May 2022
2022Also available in:
No results found.Future workshop is useful to suggest new and futuristic ideas to solve complex social problems by involving many stakeholders in the workshop. The objective of this research is to analyze upcoming main issues of the forest sector by applying the future workshop, and to provide the implications of forest policy in South Korea. Through searching the news big data, the study selected four drivers which can affect the forest sector in the future; scientific technology, climate change, economy and population. The group workshop and comprehensive workshop were conducted by predicting the impact of the drivers on the forest sector and discussing the upcoming issues by three stakeholder groups; the general public, experts and workers in forestry and forest industry. For all groups, participants generated common ideas of the issues related to the adoption of new technologies such as AI and robot in the forest management and industry in general, forest cultural services, and remote life style in the mountainous area. However, the workers group chose the issues about the extinction of mountain villages and labour shortage in forestry while the public group chose the issues about climate crisis and the economic inequality of forest cultural services. Consequently, 25 issues were selected in the comprehensive workshop, including a number of issues related to the new role of forest sector such as communication channels, carbon credit, and new position of mountain villages as well as the new technologies. Future forest policies require policy convergence based on the connection amongst various fields including scientific technology, with a variety of viewpoints. Future workshops with multiple stakeholders may help us to discover a blind spot that some experts and literature review failed to notice. Keywords: future workshop, foresight, forest policy, qualitative study ID: 3623036
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