Sustainable Development of the Boreal Forest: Interaction of Ecological, Social, and Business Feedbacks

Chapin, F. Stuart; Whiteman, Gail

doi:10.5751/es-00083-020212

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“…Instead, indicators are usually developed individually by expert panels. Moving beyond an ecological perspective, similar consequences exist when socioeconomic indicators are also considered (Chapin and Whiteman 1998). Without a strong understanding of ecological functioning and the relationship between different ecological components the long-term sustainability of communities and forestry operations may in themselves be compromised.…”

Section: Integrating Ecological Standardsmentioning

confidence: 94%

“…As the principal user of forest resources and the main agent of change in the forested landscape, forest industries must play a major role in planning the development of forested landscapes or regions. A fundamental shift in our thinking about forest resource management needs to occur in which ecosystem resilience is considered in economic and social decision-making processes (Chapin and Whiteman 1998) and also in which conservationists consider humans as part of the ecosystem (Bunnel1997).…”

Section: Varying Forest Management Intensity As a Tool To Maintain Ecmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Development of integrated ecological standards of sustainable forest management at an operational scale

Kneeshaw¹,

Leduc²,

Drapeau³

et al. 2000

The Forestry Chronicle

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Pierre Drapeau114, Sylvie ~a u t h i e r l~~, David F' ar6115, Richard Carignan6, Rene Doucet7, Luc Bouthillier2, and Christian ~e s s i e r l Within Canada, and internationally, an increasing demand that forests be managed to maintain all resources has led to the development of criteria and indicators of sustainable forest management. There is, however, a lack of understanding, at an operational scale, how to evaluate and compare forest management activities to ensure the sustainability of all resources. For example, nationally, many of the existing indicators are too broad to be used directly at a local scale of forest management; provincially, regulations are often too prescriptive and rigid to allow for adaptive management; and forest certification programs, often based largely on public or stakeholder opinion instead of scientific understanding, may be too local in nature to permit a comparison of operations across a biome. At an operational scale indicators must be relevant to forest activities and ecologically integrated. In order to aid decision-makers in the adaptive management necessary for sustainable forest management, two types of indicators are identified: those that are prescriptive to aid in planning forest management and those that are evaluative to be used in monitoring and suggesting improvements. An integrated approach to developing standards based on an ecosystem management paradigm is outlined for the boreal forest where the variability inherent in natural systems is used to define the limits within which forest management is ecologically sustainable. Sustainability thresholds are thus d e f i by ecosystem response after natural disturbances. For this exercise, standards are proposed for biodiversity, forest productivity via regeneration, soil conservation and aquatic resources. For each of these standards, planning indicators are developed for managing forest conditions while forest values are evaluated by environmental indicators, thus leading to a continuous cycle of improvement. Approaches to developing critical thresholds and corresponding prescriptions are also outlined. In all cases, the scale of evaluation is clearly related to the landscape (or FMU) level while the stand level is used for measurement purposes. In this view the forest should be managed as a whole even though forest interventions are usually undertaken at the stand level.

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Section: Integrating Ecological Standardsmentioning

confidence: 94%

Section: Varying Forest Management Intensity As a Tool To Maintain Ecmentioning

confidence: 99%

Development of integrated ecological standards of sustainable forest management at an operational scale

Kneeshaw¹,

Leduc²,

Drapeau³

et al. 2000

The Forestry Chronicle

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“…Social and economic processes create webs of positive and negative feedbacks that may be structurally similar to, or different from, those of ecological systems (6). Whereas ecological feedbacks have a strong physical basis, business feedbacks are socially and economically mediated and are somewhat less predictable.…”

Section: High-latitude Regions As Socially and Economically Mediated mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…1). The business environment interconnects these systems and provides important feedbacks that affect the long-term functioning of high-latitude regions (6). In systems thinking, a positive feedback amplifies the change in input, pushing the system towards greater change, whereas a negative feedback counteracts this and helps to maintain the status quo (7).…”

Section: High-latitude Regions As Socially and Economically Mediated mentioning

confidence: 99%

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Bringing Feedback and Resilience of High-latitude Ecosystems into the Corporate Boardroom

Whiteman¹,

Forbes²,

Niemelä³

et al. 2004

AMBIO: A Journal of the Human Environment

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Trading off nature for nature‐based solutions: The bioeconomics of forest management for wildlife, timber, and carbon

Ury,

Kotchen,

Schmitz

2024

Ecosphere

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Nature‐based solutions are attracting interest for their potential to enlist ecological processes as cost‐effective and safe ways to capture and store carbon in forest ecosystems. Such solutions often need to be implemented in landscapes in which there are longer established values for other ecosystem services including wildlife and timber production. Here we develop an integrative model that illustrates the inherent trade‐offs that will arise among the competing values for landscape space and how to resolve them. The analysis characterizes boreal forest ecosystem dynamics involving interactions among the main trophic compartments of an intact boreal ecosystem, aka “nature.” The model accounts for carbon accumulation via biomass growth of forest trees (timber), carbon loss due to controls from moose herbivory that varies with moose population density (hunting), and soil carbon inputs and release, which together determine the carbon sink strength of the ecosystem. We link the ecological dynamics with an economic analysis by assigning a price to carbon stored within the intact boreal forest ecosystem. We then weigh these carbon impacts against the economic benefits of timber production and hunting across a range of moose population densities. Combined, this carbon‐bioeconomic program calculates the total ecosystem benefit of a modeled boreal forest system, providing a framework for examining how different forest harvest and moose densities influence the achievement of carbon storage targets, under different levels of carbon pricing. The analysis shows that promoting nature‐based solutions merely for carbon storage may result in loss of a key part of “nature” via loss of the trophic structure and key functional controls in the ecosystem.

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Sustainable Development of the Boreal Forest: Interaction of Ecological, Social, and Business Feedbacks

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Cited by 21 publications

References 41 publications

Development of integrated ecological standards of sustainable forest management at an operational scale

Development of integrated ecological standards of sustainable forest management at an operational scale

Bringing Feedback and Resilience of High-latitude Ecosystems into the Corporate Boardroom

Trading off nature for nature‐based solutions: The bioeconomics of forest management for wildlife, timber, and carbon

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