Managing a boreal forest landscape for providing timber, storing and sequestering carbon
| Autor: | Dmitry Podkopaev, Adriano Mazziotta, Artti Juutinen, Mikko Mönkkönen, Pasi Reunanen, María Triviño, Kaisa Miettinen |
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| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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Natural resource economics
ta1172 Geography Planning and Development Forest management Population forest management Climate change Management Monitoring Policy and Law Carbon sequestration Ecosystem services carbon storage and sequestration Economics Production (economics) multiobjective optimization education Finland Nature and Landscape Conservation Global and Planetary Change education.field_of_study Ecology business.industry Environmental resource management Provisioning 15. Life on land ta4112 Investment (macroeconomics) Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous) climate change 13. Climate action ecosystem service trade-offs ta1181 business |
| Zdroj: | Ecosystem Services. 14:179-189 |
| ISSN: | 2212-0416 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.ecoser.2015.02.003 |
| Popis: | Human well-being highly depends on ecosystem services and this dependence is expected to increase in the future with increasing population and economic growth. Studies that investigate trade-offs between ecosystem services are urgently needed for informing policy-makers. We examine the trade-offs between a provisioning (revenues from timber selling) and regulating (carbon storage and sequestration) ecosystem services among seven alternative forest management regimes in a large boreal forest production landscape. First, we estimate the potential of the landscape to produce harvest revenues and store/sequester carbon across a 50-year time period. Then, we identify conflicts between harvest revenues and carbon storage and sequestration. Finally, we apply multiobjective optimization to find optimal combinations of forest management regimes that maximize harvest revenues and carbon storage/sequestration. Our results show that no management regime alone is able to either maximize harvest revenues or carbon services and that a combination of different regimes is needed. We also show that with a relatively little economic investment (5% decrease in harvest revenues), a substantial increase in carbon services could be attained (9% for carbon storage; 15–23% for carbon sequestration). We conclude that it is possible to achieve win–win situations applying diversified forest management planning at a landscape level. |
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