Sustainable Forestry Under Changing 1

Climate 2

Manoj Kumar Jhariya, Dhiraj Kumar Yadav, 3

Arnab Banerjee, Abhishek Raj, and Ram Swaroop Meena 4

Contents 5

1  Introduction  000 6
2  Interrelationship Between Forest and Climate Change  000 7
3  Forest and Climate Change: Global Scenario  000 8
4  Impact of Climate Change on Forests  000 9
4.1  Climate Change and Vegetation Growth Trait  000 10
4.2  Climate Change and Vegetation Productive Trait  000 11
4.3  Climate Change and Vegetation Shift Scenario  000 12
4.4  Climate Change: C Dynamics and Forest Soil  000 13
5  Forest: Climate Adaptation and Mitigation  000 14
6  Key Issues and Challenges for Forests Towards Climate Adaptation  000 15
7  Sustainable Forestry Practices and Climate Change  000 16
8  SFM for Biodiversity Conservation and Livelihood Management in the Tropics  000 17
9  Policies Towards Sustainable Management  000 18
10  Future Prospectus of Forest and Climate Research and Development  000 19
11  Conclusion  000 20
References  000 21

M. K. Jhariya (*) · D. K. Yadav

Department of Farm Forestry, Sarguja University, Ambikapur, Chhattisgarh, India
A. Banerjee
Department of Environmental Science, Sarguja University, Ambikapur, Chhattisgarh, India
A. Raj
Department of Forestry, College of Agriculture, Indira Gandhi Krishi Vishwavidyalaya
(I.G.K.V.), Raipur, Chhattisgarh, India
R. S. Meena
Department of Agronomy, Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Banaras Hindu University,
Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India

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22 Abstract
23 Climatic perturbation is the major event in the present era that has put the surviv-
24 ality of human civilization under severe threat. Forests are natural boon for us to
25 combat the mega event of climate change. Apart from mitigating climate change,
26 the forests are providing a livelihood for community stakeholders, meet up
27 energy demand, provide fodder and fuel and produce various non-timber forest
28 products (NTFPs). Consideration of all these multidimensional role forest is AU1
29 essential for survivality of human civilization. As per the Intergovernmental
30 Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), mitigating climate change through forest
31 appears to be up to 14.0% at various sectors. On the other hand, forests are sup- AU2
32 porting livelihood security for more than 300 million people of India and meet
33 the energy demand of rural India up to 40.0% to provide support for domesti-
34 cated animals up to one-third. But the existence of forest is under threat due to
35 the rapid growth of human civilization, resource dependency and unsustainable
36 use of forest resources. Therefore, climate change is showing its impact over
37 forests at various levels such as in the form of productive traits, C (carbon)
38 dynamics, vegetation shift and depletion of soil resources. To combat such prob- AU3
39 lems, sustainable forest management (SFM) is a suitable answer as it addresses
40 multidimensional way by reducing resource dependency on one hand and pro-
41 moting livelihood option for forest dwellers on the other hand. This chapter deals
42 with SFM practices under the changing scenario of climate change. SFM pro-
43 motes increase in forest cover which further helps to combat and adapt to climate
44 change events. In this way SFM becomes an integrated approach of sustainable
45 management and conservation of natural resources.

46 Keywords
47 Biodiversity · Climate change · C dynamics · SFM · Soil resource

48 Abbreviations

49 AFOLU Agriculture forestry and other land use

50 C Carbon
51 CO2 Carbon dioxide
52 FAO Food and Agriculture Organization
53 FOLU Forestry and other land use
54 GHGs Greenhouse gases
55 IPCC Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
56 N Nitrogen
57 NFP National Forest Policy
58 NTFPs Non-timber forest products
59 OC Organic carbon
60 OM Organic matter
61 REDD Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation AU4
62 SFM Sustainable forest management