B31D:
Climate Change Mitigation Potential of Wood Use and Forest Management Posters

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Session ID#: 13044

Session Description:
This session focuses on quantifying the current and potential climate change mitigation impacts of wood-use and forest management at landscape and national scales. The sustainable use of forest biomass for bioenergy presents an opportunity to address climate change by reducing fossil fuel emissions. Changing practices in forest management, wood-use, and post-consumer wood products can result in higher or lower emissions to the atmosphere depending on biological and utilization efficiencies. Wood-use strategies for mitigation can include using wood energy to avoid fossil fuels, or shifting commodities to longer-lived end-use products, or using wood to substitute for cement or other products.  Forest management examples can include adjusting rotation ages, reducing logging wastes, eliminating on-site residue burning, or increasing growth. Submissions should consider a systems approach, where changes in forest ecosystem, harvested wood products and displacement components are included.

Primary Convener:  Carolyn Smyth, Natural Resources Canada - Canadian Forest Service, Edmonton, AB, Canada
Convener:  William Stewart, University of California Berkeley, Environmental Science Policy and Management, Berkeley, CA, United States
Chairs:  Carolyn Smyth, Natural Resources Canada - Canadian Forest Service, Edmonton, AB, Canada and William Stewart, University of California Berkeley, Environmental Science Policy and Management, Berkeley, CA, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Carolyn Smyth, Natural Resources Canada - Canadian Forest Service, Edmonton, AB, Canada

Cross-Listed:
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
Index Terms:

0416 Biogeophysics [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0428 Carbon cycling [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0429 Climate dynamics [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0439 Ecosystems, structure and dynamics [BIOGEOSCIENCES]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

The Impact of Water Scarcity on Food, Bioenergy and Deforestation (Invited) (119539)
NIven Winchester1, Kirby Ledvina1, Kenneth M Strzepek2 and John M Reilly3, (1)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States, (2)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Center for transportation and logistics, Cambridge, United States, (3)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Center for Sustainability Science and Strategy, Cambridge, United States
Climate Change Effects of Forest Management and Substitution of Carbon-Intensive Materials and Fossil Fuels (195494)
Roger Sathre1, Leif Gustavsson1, Sylvia Haus1, Mattias Lundblad2, Anders Lundström3, Carina Ortiz2, Nguyen Truong1 and Per-Erik Wikberg3, (1)Linnaeus University, Department of Built Environment and Energy Technology, Växjö, Sweden, (2)SLU Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences Uppsala, Department of Soil and Environment, Uppsala, Sweden, (3)SLU Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences Umea, Department of Forest Resource Management, Umeå, Sweden
Adapting an IPCC-Compliant Full Forest Carbon Accounting Model to Determine the Effects of Different Forest Management Strategies in California (165851)
Carlin Starrs1, William Stewart2 and Matthew D. Potts1, (1)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)University of California Berkeley, Environmental Science Policy and Management, Berkeley, CA, United States
Integrated Modeling and Assessment of Climate Change Mitigation in North America: Lessons learned from Mexico (197722)
Marcela Itzel Olguin-Alvarez1, Werner A Kurz2, Craig Wayson3, Richard Birdsey4, Karen Richardson5, Gregorio Angeles6, Benedicto Vargas7, Javier Corral8, Michael Magnan2, Max Fellows2, Scott Morken9, Vanessa Maldonado10, Vanessa Mascorro11, Carmen Meneses12, Germanico Galicia13 and Enrique Serrano13, (1)Consultant, Mexico City, Mexico, (2)Natural Resources Canada, Canadian Forest Service, Victoria, BC, Canada, (3)USDA Forest Service Washington DC, Washington, DC, United States, (4)Woods Hole Research Center, Falmouth, MA, United States, (5)Commission for Environmental Cooperation, Montreal, Mexico, (6)COLPOS, Montecillo, Mexico, (7)IT El Salto, El Salto, Mexico, (8)UJED, Durango, Mexico, (9)Natural Resources Canada, Canadian Forest Service, Victoria, BC, Mexico, (10)Mex-SMIC, Mexico City, Mexico, (11)Consultant - Commission for Environmental Cooperation, Montreal, Mexico, (12)National Forestry Commission (CONAFOR), Jalisco, Mexico, (13)CONAFOR, Guadalajara, Mexico
The carbon stock of harvested wood products in US residential houses is substantial (136145)
Sheng H. Xie, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, Werner A. Kurz, Canadian Forest Service, Victoria, BC, Canada and Paul N. McFarlane, University of British Columbia, Wood Science, Vancouver, BC, Canada
The Economics of Forest Carbon Sequestration: The Challenge for Emissions Offset Trading (187669)
Gerrit Cornelis van Kooten, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada
European Forest Conservation has Created More Robust Forests to Changes in Climate on the Continental and Regional Scale. (140921)
Adam La Salle Moreno1, Christopher Thurnher1, Mathias Neumann2 and Hubert Hasenauer2, (1)BOKU University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria, (2)University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna, Institute of Silviculture, Department of Forest and Soil Sciences, Vienna, Austria
Carbon sequestration potential in operational loblolly pine plantations (169362)
Asko Noormets1, Rosvel G Bracho2, John Seiler3, Brian D Strahm4, Jean-Christophe Domec5, Eric J Jokela6, Daniel Markewitz7, Steven McNulty8, John S King9, Wen Lin10, Timothy Martin11, Lisa J Samuelson12, Ge Sun13, Robert O Teskey14, Jason G Vogel2 and Kristin McElligott3, (1)Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, United States, (2)University of Florida, School of Forest Resources and Conservation, Ft Walton Beach, FL, United States, (3)Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, United States, (4)Virginia Tech, Forest Resources and Environmental Conservation, Blacksburg, VA, United States, (5)Duke University, Nicholas School of the Environment, Durham, United States, (6)University of Florida, School of Forest Resources and Conservation, Gainesville, FL, United States, (7)University of Georgia, Warnell School of Forest Resources, Athens, GA, United States, (8)North Carolina State University at Raleigh, Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources, Raleigh, NC, United States, (9)North Carolina State University, Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources, Raleigh, United States, (10)North Carolina State University Raleigh, Raleigh, NC, United States, (11)University of Florida, School of Forest, Fisheries, and Geomatics Sciences, Gainesville, United States, (12)Auburn University, School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences, Auburn, AL, United States, (13)USDA Forest Svc, Southern Research Station, Raleigh, NC, United States, (14)University of Georgia, Athens, GA, United States
Estimating the effect of coppice practice on carbon dynamics of oak forests in Turkey (153371)
Jongyeol Lee1, Seung Hyun Han2, Ender Makineci3, Doğanay Tolunay3 and Yowhan Son4, (1)Korea University, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South), (2)Korea University, Department of Environmental Science and Ecological Engineering, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South), (3)Istanbul University, Department of Soil Science and Ecology, Istanbul, Turkey, (4)Korea University, Department of Environmental Science and Ecological Engineering, Seoul, South Korea

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