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PUBLICATIONID : 52998
PUBLICATIONTYPE : 1
TYPE : Article
TITLE : Managing United States Public Lands in Response to Climate Change: A View From the Ground Up
ORIG_TITLE : Managing United States Public Lands in Response to Climate Change: A View From the Ground Up
AUTHOR : Ellenwood, MS, L Dilling and JB Milford
FIRST_AUTHOR : Ellenwood, MS, L Dilling and JB Milford
AUTHOR_COUNT : 1
ADDRESS : [Dilling, Lisa] Univ Colorado, Ctr Sci & Technol Policy Res, CIRES, Boulder, CO 80309 USA; [Ellenwood, Mikaela S.; Dilling, Lisa] Univ Colorado, Environm Studies Program, Boulder, CO 80309 USA; [Milford, Jana B.] Univ Colorado, Dept Mech Engn, Boulder, CO 80309 USA
PUBLISHER : SPRINGER
FIRSTAUTHOREMPLOYER : 1
ABBREV_JOURNAL : Environ. Manage.
BEGINPAGE : 954
ENDPAGE : 967
VOLUME : 49
ISSUE : 5
PUBLISH_DATE : MAY
YEAR : 2012
URL : http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/admin/publication_files/2012.03.pdf
REFEREED : 1
RESOURCE : WOS:000303477700003
CITATION : 1
DEPT : CSTPR
LAST_UPDATED : 2012-10-11 11:38:32
ISSN : 0364-152X
IDS : 934WO
DOI : 10.1007/s00267-012-9829-2
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.
KEYWORDS : Climate change; Carbon management; Land use; Public lands; Federal agencies; Forestry; Fuels management; Decision making
KEYWORD_PLUS : CARBON SEQUESTRATION; PACIFIC-NORTHWEST; FORESTS; FIRE; REDUCTION; STORAGE
AREA : Environmental Sciences & Ecology
FIRST_AUTHOR_EMAIL : ldilling@colorado.edu
PUBLICATION : ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
PLACE : NEW YORK
LANGUAGE : English
SERIAL : 52998
PAGES : 954-967
APPROVED : yes
ONLINE_PUBLICATION : no
VERSION : 1
FIRST_AUTHOR_ADDRESS : Dilling, L (reprint author), Univ Colorado, Ctr Sci & Technol Policy Res, CIRES, 1333 Grandview Ave,UCB 0488, Boulder, CO 80309 USA
AUTHOR_OTHER_FORM : Ellenwood, Mikaela S.; Dilling, Lisa; Milford, Jana B.
FUNDING : U.S. Department of Agriculture[USDA 2011-29570-30960]
FUNDING_ACKNOWLEDGEMENT : We thank the many individuals we interviewed for this study who generously gave of their time and without whose assistance we would not have been able to conduct this research. In particular we would like to acknowledge Matt Janowiak and Gretchen Fitzgerald who assisted in setting up the research opportunity. We gratefully acknowledge funding from a University of Colorado Seed Grant to Jason Neff. We also acknowledge support from the U.S. Department of Agriculture award # USDA 2011-29570-30960.We also thank Karen Cozzetto, Daniel Fernandez, Jason Neff and Ami NacuSchmidt who provided valuable review comments, editorial and/or graphics assistance. All findings and interpretation are the sole responsibility of the authors.
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