Locatelli, B, Pavageau, C, Pramova, E et al. (1 more author) (2015) Integrating climate change mitigation and adaptation in agriculture and forestry: opportunities and trade-offs. WIREs Climate Change, 6 (6). 585 - 598. ISSN 1757-7780
Abstract
Although many activities can jointly contribute to the climate change strategies of adaptation and mitigation, climate policies have generally treated these strategies separately. In recent years, there has been a growing interest shown by practitioners in agriculture, forestry, and landscape management in the links between the two strategies. This review explores the opportunities and trade-offs when managing landscapes for both climate change mitigation and adaptation; different conceptualizations of the links between adaptation and mitigation are highlighted. Under a first conceptualization of ‘joint outcomes,’ several reviewed studies analyze how activities without climatic objectives deliver joint adaptation and mitigation outcomes. In a second conceptualization of ‘unintended side effects,’ the focus is on how activities aimed at only one climate objective—either adaptation or mitigation—can deliver outcomes for the other objective. A third conceptualization of ‘joint objectives’ highlights that associating both adaptation and mitigation objectives in a climate-related activity can influence its outcomes because of multiple possible interactions. The review reveals a diversity of reasons for mainstreaming adaptation and mitigation separately or jointly in landscape management. The three broad conceptualizations of the links between adaptation and mitigation suggest different implications for climate policy mainstreaming and integration.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2015 The Authors. WIREs Climate Change published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Environment (Leeds) > School of Earth and Environment (Leeds) > Sustainability Research Institute (SRI) (Leeds) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number ESRC ES/K00879X/1 |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 17 Sep 2015 14:13 |
Last Modified: | 23 Jun 2023 21:51 |
Published Version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/wcc.357 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Wiley |
Identification Number: | 10.1002/wcc.357 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:88742 |