Pesentation of action group research:
Sustainable forestry in a changing climate
Cecilia Akselsson
Sustainable forestry in a changing climate
• Overarching aim: To make BECC an important actor
in Sweden for research about sustainable forestry
connected to climate change
• Number of participants: many
• Meetings in connection to forest cluster meetings
• Outputs where the AG contributed: overview of
BECC forest research, seminars, policy briefs,
working paper (on scenarios), input to policy
documents, mapping of C-sink in Nordic countries
Aims of the action group (all related to
stakeholder interactions)
• To create a common platform for forest related research
in BECC and related programs
• To identify areas where we need to improve
• To increase stakeholder interactions
• To facilitate communication between social and natural
scientists in the forestry field
• To do synthesis work related to Sustainable forestry
Action groups and collaboration?
• Many participants in the AG meetings (same as on
the forest cluster meetings). Everyone working with
forests were invited (many!)
• The actual work was performed in smaller groups,
different for different tasks.
• Cooperation with other programs e.g. in worshop
organisation (Mistra-SWECIA, CLEO)
Results and communication: examples
Stakeholder interactions:
• Seminar “Skogsbruk i ett förändrat klimat”, KSLA,
Stockholm, autumn 2013 (five talks by BECC researchers,
100+ stakeholders and researchers in the audience)
• “Dikade våtmarker avger stora mängder växthusgaser –
hur kan vi minska dessa utsläpp”, Göteborg, autumn 2013
(talks by Åsa and stakeholders,e.g. EPA, Forest Agency)
• Policy and research briefs in connection with the seminars
Results and communication: examples (cont.)
Common platform for forest related research & synthesis:
• Overview of forest research, identification of missing areas
• Working paper on forestry scenarios (together with CLEO
and Mistra-SWECIA)
• Mapping of C-sink in Nordic countries
Social science + natural science
• Internal workshop 2012: Multiple use of forests in a
changing climate
• Meetings, seminar participation across disciplines
• Project on drained organic forest
soils in Gothenburg (natural and
economic sciences)
Conclusions
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BECC is and actor in the sustainable forestry field
We are better prepared for applications, contributions to
“remisser”, synthesis reports, etc than before BECC.
Stakeholder interactions is a suitable task for an AG
Ideas for the future: articles to Skogseko/Skogen,
excursions, 2-days conference.
Natural/social science cooperation needs more action
E.g. a common post doc/PhD. Meetings are not enough.
One action per AG is more effective?!
This AG was a bit to broad.