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Trees, forests and water: Cool insights for a hot world

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article , Journal , Other literature type 01 Mar 2017 Sweden, France, France, France, Australia, France, France, Netherlands, United Kingdom, Australia, United Kingdom, France Publisher:Elsevier BVJournal:Global Environmental Change, volume 43, pages 51-61 (issn: 0959-3780,

Authors: Dominick V. Spracklen; Solomon Gebreyohannis Gebrehiwot; Solomon Gebreyohannis Gebrehiwot; Meine van Noordwijk; Meine van Noordwijk; David L. A. Gaveau; Caroline A Sullivan; +19 Authors

doi: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2017.01.002

handle: 10568/94166

Trees, forests and water: Cool insights for a hot world

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Abstract

Forest-driven water and energy cycles are poorly integrated into regional, national, continental and global decision-making on climate change adaptation, mitigation, land use and water management. This constrains humanity's ability to protect our planet's climate and life-sustaining functions. The substantial body of research we review reveals that forest, water and energy interactions provide the foundations for carbon storage, for cooling terrestrial surfaces and for distributing water resources. Forests and trees must be recognized as prime regulators within the water, energy and carbon cycles. If these functions are ignored, planners will be unable to assess, adapt to or mitigate the impacts of changing land cover and climate. Our call to action targets a reversal of paradigms, from a carbon-centric model to one that treats the hydrologic and climate-cooling effects of trees and forests as the first order of priority. For reasons of sustainability, carbon storage must remain a secondary, though valuable, by-product. The effects of tree cover on climate at local, regional and continental scales offer benefits that demand wider recognition. The forest- and tree-centered research insights we review and analyze provide a knowledge-base for improving plans, policies and actions. Our understanding of how trees and forests influence water, energy and carbon cycles has important implications, both for the structure of planning, management and governance institutions, as well as for how trees and forests might be used to improve sustainability, adaptation and mitigation efforts.

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Sweden, France, France, France, Australia, France, France, Netherlands, United Kingdom, Australia, United Kingdom, France

Related Organizations

National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment
France
Wageningen University & Research
Netherlands
Département Sciences sociales, agriculture et alimentation, espace et environnement
France
Center for International Forestry Research CIFOR
Peru
The University of Texas at Austin
United States

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Keywords

550, Mitigation, Climate, Ressource énergétique, Geography, Planning and Development, Planification régionale, adaptation aux changements climatiques, adaptation, forêt tropicale, Klimatforskning, forest, forêt, K01 - Foresterie - Considérations générales, couverture du sol, Gouvernance, Milieux et Changements globaux, reforestation, Utilisation des terres, Global and Planetary Change, forest;water;energy;climate;carbon;reforestation;mitigation;adaptation;sustainability, Energy, Ecology, impact climatique, sustainability, [ SDE.MCG ] Environmental Sciences/Global Changes, séquestration du carbone, Sustainability, réduction des émissions, Forêt, P01 - Conservation de la nature et ressources foncières, ecology, Ressource en eau, energy, P33 - Chimie et physique du sol, cycle du carbone, Climate Research, P40 - Météorologie et climatologie, cycle de l'eau, [SDE.MCG]Environmental Sciences/Global Changes, water, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, 333, mitigation, carbon cycle, Couverture végétale, Forest, P10 - Ressources en eau et leur gestion, Adaptation, Arbre forestier, Reforestation, climate, forests, Changement climatique, carbon, Water, Cycle hydrologique, politique agrienvironnementale, Carbon, Climate Science, [SDE.MCG] Environmental Sciences/Global Changes, Politique foncière, Politique forestière, Cycle du carbone, Environmental Sciences, Klimatvetenskap, agrovoc: agrovoc:c_4182, agrovoc: agrovoc:c_28006, agrovoc: agrovoc:c_3052, agrovoc: agrovoc:c_25409, agrovoc: agrovoc:c_331583, agrovoc: agrovoc:c_37882, agrovoc: agrovoc:c_1374567058134, agrovoc: agrovoc:c_24904, agrovoc: agrovoc:c_37897, agrovoc: agrovoc:c_1666, agrovoc: agrovoc:c_17299, agrovoc: agrovoc:c_8325, agrovoc: agrovoc:c_11670, agrovoc: agrovoc:c_3060, agrovoc: agrovoc:c_195, agrovoc: agrovoc:c_3062, agrovoc: agrovoc:c_6490, agrovoc: agrovoc:c_331597

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