A systems approach to assess climate change mitigation options in landscapes of the United States forest sector.

ABSTRACT:

Background

United States forests can contribute to national strategies for greenhouse gas reductions. The objective of this work was to evaluate forest sector climate change mitigation scenarios from 2018 to 2050 by applying a systems-based approach that accounts for net emissions across four interdependent components: (1) forest ecosystem, (2) land-use change, (3) harvested wood products, and (4) substitution benefits from using wood products and bioenergy. We assessed a range of land management and harvested wood product scenarios for two case studies in the U.S: coastal South Carolina and Northern Wisconsin. We integrated forest inventory and remotely-sensed disturbance data within a modelling framework consisting of a growth-and-yield driven ecosystem carbon model; a harvested

SUBMITTER: Dugan AJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6123328 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature