CO2 Emission Mitigation Potential of Mississippi Forests and Impacts to Nonindustrial Private Forest Land Management - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook CO2 Emission Mitigation Potential of Mississippi Forests and Impacts to Nonindustrial Private Forest Land Management write by John Derrett Cason. This book was released on 2006. CO2 Emission Mitigation Potential of Mississippi Forests and Impacts to Nonindustrial Private Forest Land Management available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Carbon Sequestration on Nonindustrial Private Forest Lands for Climate Change Mitigation in the Southern United States
Carbon Sequestration on Nonindustrial Private Forest Lands for Climate Change Mitigation in the Southern United States - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Carbon Sequestration on Nonindustrial Private Forest Lands for Climate Change Mitigation in the Southern United States write by Puskar Nath Khanal. This book was released on 2015. Carbon Sequestration on Nonindustrial Private Forest Lands for Climate Change Mitigation in the Southern United States available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. To effectively implement climate change mitigation and carbon sequestration activities in the southern US, nonindustrial private forest (NIPF) landowner participation is necessary because of the significant number of acres of forest land under their ownership. This study intended to develop a typology of NIPF landowners based on their reasons of owning forestland, assess their attitude toward climate change and carbon sequestration, and evaluate their participation behavior toward forest carbon sequestration in the southern US. A mail survey of NIPF landowners in the southern US was used to collect the data necessary for this study. Study results indicated that landowners in the southern US could be segmented into multi-objective, timber and amenity oriented landowners; and landowner groups differed in terms of their ownership characteristics, management behavior, and interest toward forest carbon sequestration. Additionally, the southern landowner attitudes toward climate change and carbon sequestration could be grouped into positive, negative, and undecided types; with the undecided group composing the largest proportion of landowners. However, few landowners indicated having a good understanding of forest carbon sequestration, indicating the need for more education and outreach activities in this region. In addition, landowner willingness to participate in carbon sequestration practices was different when such practices were more profitable, revenue neutral or less profitable than timber management only. Although many landowners would require a significant profit to participate in carbon sequestration programs, others would participate with little or no incentives. Those having recreational goals for their property were the most likely landowners to participate in carbon sequestration. Similarly, positive attitudes toward climate change (i.e., with a belief that climate change is scientifically proven) and a good understanding of forest carbon sequestration positively affected landowner participation in forest carbon sequestration. Economic implementation of climate change policy could be achieved by designing education, incentives, or assistance programs to connect with recreational goal landowners in the southern US.
US forest sector greenhouse mitigation potential and implications for nationally determined contributions
US forest sector greenhouse mitigation potential and implications for nationally determined contributions - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook US forest sector greenhouse mitigation potential and implications for nationally determined contributions write by Christina Van Winkle. This book was released on 2017-05-30. US forest sector greenhouse mitigation potential and implications for nationally determined contributions available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Countries globally are committing to achieve future greenhouse gas emissions reductions to address our changing climate, as outlined in the Paris Agreement from the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Conference of the Parties. These commitments, called nationally determined contributions (NDCs), are based on projected anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions levels across all sectors of the economy, including land use, land use change, and forestry (LULUCF) activities. Projecting LULUCF emissions is uniquely challenging, and the uncertainty of future LULUCF emissions could require additional mitigation efforts in the land use sectors to reduce the risk of NDC noncompliance. The objectives of this paper are to provide critical information on what forest sector mitigation activities are currently underway in the United States on private lands, review recent literature estimates of the mitigation potential from these activities (and associated economic costs), identify gaps in the literature where additional analytical work is needed, and provide recommendations for targeted mitigation strategies should US emissions approach or exceed targeted post-2020 NDC levels.
Implementation of Fuel Reduction Treatments on Nonindustrial Private Forests in Mississippi
Implementation of Fuel Reduction Treatments on Nonindustrial Private Forests in Mississippi - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Implementation of Fuel Reduction Treatments on Nonindustrial Private Forests in Mississippi write by Anusha Shrestha. This book was released on 2020. Implementation of Fuel Reduction Treatments on Nonindustrial Private Forests in Mississippi available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Fuel reduction treatments are management activities implemented to reduce the quantity of hazardous fuels in forests to decrease the probability of severe and intense wildfires. As nonindustrial private forest (NIPF) landowners own most forests (77%) in Mississippi, their involvement is essential for effective and coordinated fuel reduction treatments to achieve a large-scale wildfire hazard reduction. However, NIPF landowner attitudes towards wildfire risk and mitigation activities implemented to reduce wildfire risk are not well understood. This study determined attitudes of NIPF landowners towards wildfires, current trends in implementation of fuel reduction treatments, socioeconomic and geospatial factors affecting treatment implementation, and landowner willingness to pay (WTP) for prescribed burning. Data were collected via a mail survey of NIPF landowners and public sources including Mississippi Forestry Commission and National Land Cover Database. The contingent valuation method (CVM) was used to quantify the WTP for prescribed burning. Data were analyzed using seemingly unrelated and binary probit, and binary logit models. Approximately 68% of landowners were concerned about wildfires, but only 45% implemented hazardous fuel reduction treatments. Prescribed burning was the most commonly implemented and the least costly treatment. Furthermore, only 30% of landowners were likely to implement fuel reduction treatments in the next five years. Past implementation of treatments, concern about property damages due to wildfires, familiarity with wildfire prevention and mitigation programs, size of forest land owned, ecological services ownership objectives, past experience with wildfires, and motivation from neighbors’ implementation of treatments were positively associated with the likelihood of implementing fuel reduction treatments in the next five years. Landowners were willing to pay from $14.70 to $66.86 per acre, with an average of $41.39 per acre, for implementing prescribed burning on their forest land. The payment amount was negatively related to WTP, whereas education level, tolerance of smoke from prescribed burns, concern about property damages due to wildfires, and consideration of liability issues as an important factor were positively related. Results will help better understand NIPF landowner wildfire mitigation activities and associated social and geospatial factors, and aid in the development of more effective strategies and resource allocation for wildfire prevention and mitigation.
Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation Management Options
Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation Management Options - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation Management Options write by James M. Vose. This book was released on 2013-12-05. Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation Management Options available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Forest land managers face the challenges of preparing their forests for the impacts of climate change. However, climate change adds a new dimension to the task of developing and testing science-based management options to deal with the effects of stressors on forest ecosystems in the southern United States. The large spatial scale and complex interactions make traditional experimental approaches difficult. Yet, the current progression of climate change science offers new insights from recent syntheses, models, and experiments, providing enough information to start planning now for a future that will likely include an increase in disturbances and rapid changes in forest conditions. Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation Management Options: A Guide for Natural Resource Managers in Southern Forest Ecosystems provides a comprehensive analysis of forest management options to guide natural resource management in the face of future climate change. Topics include potential climate change impacts on wildfire, insects, diseases, and invasives, and how these in turn might affect the values of southern forests that include timber, fiber, and carbon; water quality and quantity; species and habitats; and recreation. The book also considers southern forest carbon sequestration, vulnerability to biological threats, and migration of native tree populations due to climate change. This book utilizes the most relevant science and brings together science experts and land managers from various disciplines and regions throughout the south to combine science, models, and on-the-ground experience to develop management options. Providing a link between current management actions and future management options that would anticipate a changing climate, the authors hope to ensure a broader range of options for managing southern forests and protecting their values in the future.
