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Brochure, flyer, fact-sheetSmart Adaptation of Forest Landscapes in Mountain Areas
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2024Also available in:
No results found.The Smart Adaptation of Forest Landscapes in Mountain Areas project, known as SALMA, experienced challenges related to the COVID-19 pandemic. This five-year project received a nine-month extension. With a total budget of USD 34 127 635, it aimed to achieve climate resilience within vulnerable forest ecosystems and rural mountain communities that live in and partially depend on such ecosystems. Key was enhancing the resilience of vulnerable rural communities and their livelihoods in mountain areas through participatory sustainable forest management. Further, the project addressed environmental and economic priorities by promoting environmental governance with community- and ecosystem-based adaptation approaches. -
BookletTerminal evaluation of the project "Smart Adaptation of Forest Landscapes in Mountain Areas"
Project code: GCP/LEB/027/SCF, GEF ID 5125
2024Also available in:
No results found.The project objective was to achieve climate resilience for vulnerable forest ecosystems and rural mountain communities, through the promotion of environmental governance by integrating community-based and ecosystem-based adaptation approaches. The evaluation found that the project was highly relevant and aligned with national priorities, however the limited community participation diminished its significance to targeted communities. While the project showed high technical delivery capacity, delays and staffing issues impacted effectiveness, particularly in fostering community engagement and capacity building. Inefficient time management and an outdated exit strategy further hindered efficiency and reduced the potential for sustainability. The extension's primary value lies in completing the generation of significant forestry data to be accessible through a monitoring unit at the National Center for Remote Sensing, though operationalizing plans remains uncertain. Based on the above, the evaluation recommended to design and implement a follow-up project to facilitate and support a participatory validation process of the forest management plans in the respective communities. -
ArticleTransboundary forest management strategies are needed to adapt to climate change in East Asian temperate forests
XV World Forestry Congress, 2-6 May 2022
2022Also available in:
No results found.Cli mate impacts traverse administrative borders, so paradigms that address forest preservation and adaptation strategies across international borders are needed. Here, we measure climate change exposure for forests of the East Asian Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forest Biome, which occupies 3,092,381 km2 and covers 18 ecoregions. This Biome includes parts of China, North and South Korea, Japan, and the Russian Federation. We quantify future climate change exposure as the change per pixel in climate conditions relative to the baseline (1960-1990) climate conditions occupied by each forest type and project future climate change exposure levels to each forest type within and among the ecoregions. We use the entire biome and its ecoregions as units within which to quantify climate change exposure. We then examine the resulting spatial patterns of climate change exposure relative to provincial and international boundaries to identify several levels at which governments will need transboundary coordination in order to develop forest preservation and climate adaptation strategies. By 2070, using the RCP8.5 emission scenario, 24.5-65.7% of these forests enter non-analog or the most marginal 1 % of baseline climate conditions. These results reveal the need for extensive transboundary governmental coordination, including forest preservation actions among 51 of 54 provinces that will retain some forest locations in climatically stable or low-risk conditions. Furthermore, among 96 provinces with forests that will be highly exposed, 90 will require transboundary climate change adaptation strategies because these forests span their borders, including the border areas of China, the Russian Federation, and North Korea. The analytical approach of this study could serve as a template for supporting transboundary institutional coordination to address climate change. Keywords: Climate Change Risk; Temperate Forests; Eas;t Asia; Transboundary Coordination; Climate Adaptation Strategies ID: 3608288
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