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Managing United States Public Lands in Response to Climate Change: A View From the Ground Up
- Source :
- Environmental Management. 49:954-967
- Publication Year :
- 2012
- Publisher :
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2012.
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Abstract
- Federal land managers are faced with the task of balancing multiple uses and goals when making decisions about land use and the activities that occur on public lands. Though climate change is now well recognized by federal agencies and their local land and resource managers, it is not yet clear how issues related to climate change will be incorporated into on-the-ground decision making within the framework of multiple use objectives. We conducted a case study of a federal land management agency field office, the San Juan Public Lands Center in Durango, CO, U.S.A., to understand from their perspective how decisions are currently made, and how climate change and carbon management are being factored into decision making. We evaluated three major management sectors in which climate change or carbon management may intersect other use goals: forests, biofuels, and grazing. While land managers are aware of climate change and eager to understand more about how it might affect land resources, the incorporation of climate change considerations into everyday decision making is currently quite limited. Climate change is therefore on the radar screen, but remains a lower priority than other issues. To assist the office in making decisions that are based on sound scientific information, further research is needed into how management activities influence carbon storage and resilience of the landscape under climate change.
- Subjects :
- Conservation of Natural Resources
Colorado
Resource (biology)
Political economy of climate change
Climate Change
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Decision Making
Land management
Climate change
Government Agencies
Multiple use
Land use, land-use change and forestry
Herbivory
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Global and Planetary Change
Ecology
Land use
business.industry
Ownership
Environmental resource management
Agriculture
Forestry
Planning Techniques
Carbon Dioxide
Pollution
Biofuels
Psychological resilience
business
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Details
- ISSN :
- 14321009 and 0364152X
- Volume :
- 49
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Environmental Management
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....2ecbe53811bb508804a99f9dfb89a0d9