Forestry and Climate Change

Peter H. Freer-Smith Mark S. J. Broadmeadow Jim M. Lynch

I: Introduction 1: Personal Introduction - Rt. Hon. Lord Clark of Windermere 2: Forests and Climate Change: the Knowledge-base for Action - P.H.Freer-Smith, M.S.J.Broadmeadow and J.M.Lynch II: Climate Change, Forestry and the Science-Policy Interface 3: Present and Future Global Carbon Sources and Sinks - M.Heimann 4: Global Forest Sector: Trends, Threats and Opportunities - R.Seppälä 5: Carbon Sequestration as a Forestry Opportunity in a Changing Climate - J.Burley, J.Ebeling and P.M.Costa 6: Forests and Climate Change: Global Understandings and Possible Responses - S.Dresner, P.Ekins, K.McGeevor and J.Tomei 7: The Forest Science-Policy Interface - L.G.M.Filho III: Forestry Options for Contributing to Climate Change Mitigation 8: Causes of Gaps Between Perceived Potentials and Actual Implementation of Forest-sector Mitigation Activities - S.Brown and W.Kurz 9: Forests Remove Carbon Dioxide from the Atmosphere: Spruce Forest Tales! - S.Linder and P.G.Jarvis 10: Afforestation, Reforestation and Reduced Deforestation to Sequester Carbon and Reduce Emissions - B.Schlamadinger and T.Johns 11: Energy and Fuelwood - R.E.H.Sims 12: Carbon in Wood Products and Product Substitution - R.W.Matthews, K.Robertson, G.Marland and E.Marland 13: Towards a High Resolution Forest Carbon Balance for Europe Based on Inventory Data - G-J.Nabuurs, B.Vanderwerf, N.Heidema and I.van den Wyngaert 14: Forestry in Europe Under Changing Climate and Land Use - J.Eggers, M.Lindner, S.Zudin, S.Zaehle, J.Liski and G-J.Nabuurs IV: Impacts of Climate Change on Forests: Options for Adaptation 15: Soils and Waste Management: A Challenge to Climate Change - J.S.Schepers and J.M.Lynch 16: Impacts of Climate Change on Forest Soil Carbon: Principles, Factors, Models, Uncertainties - M. Reichstein 17: Direct Effects of Elevated Carbon Dioxide on Forest Tree Productivity - D.F. Karnosky, M.Tallis, J.Darbah and G.Taylor 18: Impacts of Climate Change on Natural and Semi-Natural Forest Ecosystem - D.Loustau, J.Ogée, E.Dufrêne, M.Déqué, J.-L.Dupouey, V.Badeau, N.Viovy, P.Ciais, M.-L.Desprez-Loustau, A.Roques, I.Chuine and F.Mouillot 19: Forest Responses to Global Change in North America: Interacting Forces Define a Research Agenda - A.M.Solomon and P.H.Freer-Smith V: National and International Frameworks: Current and Future Policy 20: National Forest Monitoring Systems: Purposes, Options and Status - P.Holmgren and L-G. Marklund 21: Conservation of Biodiversity in Boreal Forests: the Russian Experience - V.Teplyakov 22: International Forest Policy and Options for Climate Change Forest Policy in Developing Countries - S.Jauregui 23: Addressing Deforestation and Forest Degradation Through International Policy - G.Badiozamani VI: Implications for Future Forestry and Related Environmental and Development Policy 24: Risks and Uncertainties - W.Harper and R.S.Swift 25: Governance and Climate Change - M.S.J.Sangster and M.Dudley 26: Response of the Forestry Sector - M.S.J.Broadmeadow and J-M.Carnus 27: Commercial and Project-based Responses and Associated Research Initiatives in the Forest Sector - P.J.Hanson and W.Kurz 28: Forests and Climate Change: Conclusions and the Way Forward - T.Rollinson