Climate Change Education: A Workshop Summary
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- Synopsis
- The forested land in the United States is an asset that is owned and managed by federal, state, and local governments, families, and other private groups including timber investment management organizations and real estate investment trusts. The over 10 million family forestland owners manage the largest percent (35 percent) of forestland acreage and the majority (62 percent) of the privately owned forestland. The Forest Service of the United States Department of Agriculture, which is responsible for the stewardship of all of the nation's forests, has long worked with private owners of forestland on forest management and preservation. All forestland is facing intensified threats because of the long-term effects of global climate change. The Forest Service recognizes that family forestland owners play a key role in protecting forestland and is working to identify optimal ways to engage this diverse group and support them in mitigating threats to the biologically diverse land they own. "Climate Change Education: Engaging Family Private Forest Owners on Issues Related to Climate Change" is the summary of a workshop convened by the National Research Council's Board on Science Education and Board on Environmental Change and Society as part of its Climate Change Education Roundtable series, to explore approaches to the challenge of preparing state foresters, extension agents, private forestry consultants, and other service providers who advise or otherwise intersect with private family forestland owners to take climate change into consideration when making decisions about their forests. The workshop focused on ways that findings from the behavioral, social, and educational sciences can be applied in engaging private individual, family, and community forestland owners in conversations about preparing for the impacts of climate change. This report discusses threats to forests posed by climate change and human actions; private forestland owners' objectives, values, knowledge, and dispositions about forest management, climate change, and related threats; and strategies for improving communication between forestland owners and service providers with respect to forest management in the face of climate change.
- Copyright:
- 2014
Book Details
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- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9780309305396
- Related ISBNs:
- 9780309305402
- Publisher:
- The National Academies Press
- Date of Addition:
- 10/20/15
- Copyrighted By:
- the National Academy of Sciences
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Earth Sciences
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- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.