Policy design for forest carbon sequestration: A review of the literature

Gren, Ing‐Marie; Aklilu, Abenezer Zeleke

doi:10.1016/j.forpol.2016.06.008

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“…Forest ecosystems and their associated understory act as important carbon sinks, providing habitats for wildlife [1,2] and promoting economic and social services to societies [3,4]. The sequestration of carbon and CO 2 by forest biomass and soils plays a major role in managing greenhouse gas emissions [5] providing a low-cost opportunity in climate policies [6]. The estimation of tree and shrub biomass in the Mediterranean Basin also contributes to better understanding fire behavior, which constitutes one of the most relevant disturbances as well as being a source of greenhouse gas emission to the atmosphere [7][8][9][10][11].…”

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Estimation of Total Biomass in Aleppo Pine Forest Stands Applying Parametric and Nonparametric Methods to Low-Density Airborne Laser Scanning Data

Domingo

Lamelas

Montealegre

et al. 2018

Forests

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The account of total biomass can assist with the evaluation of climate regulation policies from local to global scales. This study estimates total biomass (TB), including tree and shrub biomass fractions, in Pinus halepensis Miller forest stands located in the Aragon Region (Spain) using Airborne Laser Scanning (ALS) data and fieldwork. A comparison of five selection methods and five regression models was performed to relate the TB, estimated in 83 field plots through allometric equations, to several independent variables extracted from ALS point cloud. A height threshold was used to include returns above 0.2 m when calculating ALS variables. The sample was divided into training and test sets composed of 62 and 21 plots, respectively. The model with the lower root mean square error (15.14 tons/ha) after validation was the multiple linear regression model including three ALS variables: the 25th percentile of the return heights, the variance, and the percentage of first returns above the mean. This study confirms the usefulness of low-density ALS data to accurately estimate total biomass, and thus better assess the availability of biomass and carbon content in a Mediterranean Aleppo pine forest.Forests 2018, 9, 158 2 of 17 tools due to its capability to provide 3-D information of vegetation structure. Vertical forest structure has been estimated with ALS data for several applications, such as forest inventory [16][17][18], forest structural heterogeneity [19][20][21][22], fuel type mapping [23,24] fuel modelling [23][24][25][26] or tree damage detection after natural disasters [27][28][29] for several height strata. However, few studies have focused on shrub biomass characterization with ALS data [30][31][32][33]. Some studies have used low density ALS data to estimate forest biomass [25,[34][35][36][37][38], but little research has been performed including shrub vegetation because of the inherent difficulty in the estimation related to its low height and uniform surface [30]. Several studies state that ALS data tends to underestimate shrub vegetation [39][40][41][42]. Besides, when shrub and tree vegetation cover is high [43] and density of ALS data is low, the accuracy of digital elevation models (DEM) used to normalize return heights decreases [30]. The performed studies use an approach that combines ALS data and harvesting field measurements for biomass estimation [30,33]. In this sense, the lack of more studies to characterize shrub vegetation might have been associated with the necessary destructive sampling to generate forest structure equations, the assumption of simple geometric shapes [44,45], and the additional difficulty to estimate biomass at a regional scale using low-density ALS data. However, the presence of shrub biomass in the understory or the existence of shrubland areas constitutes an important land use in the Mediterranean basin. In this sense, the availability of shrub allometric equations for the main Spanish shrub species [46] have opened new opportunities. These equations allow the estimat...

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Estimation of Total Biomass in Aleppo Pine Forest Stands Applying Parametric and Nonparametric Methods to Low-Density Airborne Laser Scanning Data

Domingo

Lamelas

Montealegre

et al. 2018

Forests

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“…Gains go beyond private individual owners, extending to a wider social value, creating a welfare-economic optimal solution. Some countries compensate the value of carbon sequestration through policies such as Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD) and Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) [44]. Seed harvesting provides value to private individuals and society as a whole.…”

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Sustainable Management of Oleaginous Trees as a Source for Renewable Energy Supply and Climate Change Mitigation: A Case Study in China

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Abstract:Forests provide a range of ecosystem services, including bioenergy supply and carbon sequestration, both contributing to significant climate change mitigation. Oleaginous trees have potential to provide bioenergy supplies through biodiesel-producing seed yield as well as contributing to carbon sequestration. This paper aims to show the provisions of bioenergy and carbon savings through forest rotation management and it will investigate the potential of oleaginous forest management in China. We use the land expectation value (LEV) model to calculate the optimal joint values of timber, seed and total carbon savings, including carbon sequestration from forest and carbon reductions through energy substitutions. The results indicate that combining both values of seeds and carbon savings increase the LEV and rotation age (167,611 Yuan/ha, 78 years) compared to sole timber value (26,053 Yuan/ha, 55 years). The optimization of the LEVs and the resulting optimal rotation ages are significantly sensitive to the discounting rate. Annual biodiesel potential production from Pistacia chinensis can take up 1.7% of the national diesel consumption in China. We conclude that China can use improved forest rotation management as an effective means for achieving goals in its low-carbon energy strategy.

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“…Although offsetting potentially generates new revenue streams and opportunities for poor communities in the Global South (Jindal, Swallow, and Kerr 2008;Thomas et al 2010;Osborne and Shapiro-Garza 2018), it often comes with trade-offs, injustices, unintended consequences, or obstacles to implementation that tend to be insufficiently acknowledged by proponents (Muradian et al 2013;Cavanagh and Benjaminsen 2014;Osborne 2015;Leach and Scoones 2015a;Corbera and Schroeder 2017;Edstedt and Carton 2018;Fischer and Hajdu 2018). Persistent concerns about the permanence and additionality of carbon offsets, moreover, raise questions about the environmental integrity of this particular mitigation approach (Galik and Jackson 2009;Erickson, Lazarus, and Spalding-Fecher 2014;Cames et al 2016;Gren and Zeleke 2016).…”

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Rendering Local: The Politics of Differential Knowledge in Carbon Offset Governance

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2020

Annals of the American Association of Geographers

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Environmental governance relies on the translation of socioecological knowledge across disciplines and cultural-political boundaries. Comparatively few studies have, however, examined how such expert knowledge is translated back into the local contexts where projects are implemented. This article explores these processes of translation for the case of forest-based carbon offsetting using a case study of the Trees for Global Benefits project in Uganda. Based on successive fieldwork in two project regions, it examines how climate change, carbon, and carbon trading are understood by project participants and what work these understandings perform as part of the governance of carbon offsets. The article identifies a distinctive "rendering local" of project logics and rationale, which occurs in part as a management strategy by the project organizers and is in part the outcome of participants' own articulations of offsetting concepts within the socioecological contexts in which they are embedded. Although these often unruly translations provide tensions and contradictions within the sociomaterial assemblage that constitutes the offset market, they also serve to facilitate project management. The dynamics identified here highlight the uneven geographies of environmental knowledge as instrumental to the governance of the offset market, therefore warranting closer attention by scholars studying carbon forestry and neoliberal environmentalism more generally.环境治理依赖于跨学科、跨文化和政治边界的社会生物学知识转化。但是，很少有研究探讨如何将这些专业知识转化到当地环境中的项目实施。本文以乌干达树木全球效益项目为例，探讨了森林碳补偿的转化过程。通过对这两个项目区域进行的连续实地工作，本文考察了项目参与者对气候变化、碳和碳交易的理解，及这些理解在碳补偿治理中的作用。本文找出了项目逻辑和基本原理独特的"地方解读"，这是项目组织者管理策略的一部分，也是参与者在其所在社会生态环境中自行表达的部分结果。尽管这些转化难以管理，在构成补偿市场的社会物质组合中会引发紧张和矛盾，但也有助于项目管理。本文发现的动态强调了环境知识的地理不均衡现象可以对补偿市场治理提供帮助，以确保碳林业以及更广义的新自由主义环保主义学者更密切的关注。关键词: 碳林业，碳补偿，环境治理，知识政治，新自由主义自然。 La gobernanza ambiental descansa en la traducci on del conocimiento socioecol ogico a trav es de las disciplinas y de las fronteras pol ıtico-culturales. Comparativamente, sin embargo, pocos estudios han examinado c omo se adapta tal conocimiento de experticia a los contextos locales donde se est an implementando proyectos. Este art ıculo explora estos procesos de traducci on para el caso de la compensaci on de carbono con base en pr acticas forestales, usando un estudio de caso del proyecto Arboles para Beneficio Global, en Uganda. A partir de sucesivos trabajos de campo en dos regiones del proyecto, el estudio examina c omo son interpretados el cambio clim atico, el carbono y el comercio del carbono por los participantes en el proyecto y qu e funci on cumplen estos entendimientos como parte de la gobernanza de la compensaci on del carbono. El art ıculo identifica una singular "representaci on local" de la l ogica y racionalidad del proyecto, la cual se da en parte como una estrategia de manejo por los organizadores del proyecto, parcialmente resultado de las propias articulaciones de los conceptos de compensaci on entre los participantes dentro de los contextos socioecol ogicos en los cuales se insertan...

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Policy design for forest carbon sequestration: A review of the literature

Cited by 128 publications

References 57 publications

Estimation of Total Biomass in Aleppo Pine Forest Stands Applying Parametric and Nonparametric Methods to Low-Density Airborne Laser Scanning Data

Estimation of Total Biomass in Aleppo Pine Forest Stands Applying Parametric and Nonparametric Methods to Low-Density Airborne Laser Scanning Data

Sustainable Management of Oleaginous Trees as a Source for Renewable Energy Supply and Climate Change Mitigation: A Case Study in China

Rendering Local: The Politics of Differential Knowledge in Carbon Offset Governance

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