Assessing the potential for forest management practitioner participation in climate change adaptation.

摘要: The sensitivity of forests to local climate and the long time periods involved in forest management combine result conditions where are vulnerable change. Minimizing risks impacts change on outcomes reducing vulnerability systems requires adaptation. Forest system adaptation is a multi-scale incremental process that involves diverse actors collaborating define issues, develop options, implement solutions. Enabling may require revising assumptions (e.g., about stationary climate), upgrading formal informal institutions (including mandates), re-engineering governance, addressing knowledge gaps information changing practices. Given heightened uncertainty associated with change, also includes enhancing capacities, through diversification, increasing flexibility, resiliency by creating decision environments conducive learning, foresight, integration, adaptive management. practitioners have fundamental role identifying, evaluating, implementing measures. This study develops applies framework (derived from recent scholarship adaptation) for assessing perceptions challenges, factors they consider important relative their potential contribute draws from, ties together various aspects including psychological factors, management, capacity, state methods support (i.e., planning, monitoring, assessment). applied utilizing results surveys British Columbia, Canada. application provides an opportunity test concepts identify key barriers practitioner perspective. Proof concept tested evaluating extent which respondents were able willing provide answers survey questions. In general, responses robust suggesting some understanding recognition importance validity underlying professionals. suggest professionals viewpoints majority concerned However, significant minority do not modification current Discourse, education, engagement called for. Other perspective reduce participation include deficits, lack mandate adapt, limited resources adaptation, institutional barriers, inadequate assessment, persistence planning monitoring approaches account