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B.C. Home Ministry Home Competitiveness and Innovation Branch Adapting to Climate Change Goal Two: Maintain Future Options and Benefits

Goal Two: Maintain Future Options and Benefits

The desired outcome for Goal Two of the B.C. Forest Stewardship Action Plan for Climate Change Adaptation includes:

• Maintenance of a full suite of forest resources and values to safeguard future management options and benefits in a changing climate.

• Enhanced benefits and reduced climate change impacts and risks over the decision-making life cycle.

Feature: Impact and Vulnerability Assessments

Impact and vulnerability assessments increase our understanding and knowledge of current and future (social, economic and ecological) vulnerabilities across multiple scales and help forest communities prepare for, and adapt to the impacts of climate change.

Two impact and vulnerability projects funded through the Future Forest Ecosystem Scientific Council (FFESC) are:

Two impact and vulnerability projects funded through the Future Forest Ecosystem Scientific Council (FFESC) are:

1. Climate Change Adaptation Research for the South Selkirks Region: Resiliency Implications at the Landscape Level by Dr. John Innes, University of British Columbia.

   This last e-newsletter describes results from the Human Resiliency Dimension (HRD) Public Opinion Survey, undertaken by Dr. Harshaw, work by the Economic Resiliency Dimension (ECRD), undertaken by Dr. Harshaw and Dr. Harry Nelson, and finally, next steps and recommendations in climate change adaptation for the South Selkirks Region.

2. A tool for incorporating site level climate change impacts into land management decisions by Dr. Craig Delong, University of Northern British Columbia. This tool is available for free use through the link above.

   Drought is one of the leading causes of forest mortality related to climate change. We have developed a tool to predict risk of stand-level tree species mortality from drought and drought-related insect attack. Within climatically homogeneous areas, we use past and predicted future climate data, along with typical site and soil conditions for ecosystem units, to calculate actual and potential evapo-transpiration (AET and PET) for these units.

    

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