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Forest and Climate Change Governance

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Part of the book series: Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals ((ENUNSDG))

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Climate change is “a change of climate which is attributed directly or indirectly to human activity that alters the composition of the global atmosphere and which is in addition to natural climate variability observed over comparable time periods” (UN 1992).

Climate change governance refers to a wide scope of activities related to both mitigation and adaptation and requires their coordination between numerous sectors (Meadowcroft 2009; Keskitalo 2010; Fröhlich and Knieling 2013).

Adaptation is “the adjustment in natural or human systems in response to actual or expected climatic stimuli or their effects, which moderates harm or exploits beneficial opportunities” (IPCC 2007).

Mitigation is “an anthropogenic intervention to reduce the sources or enhance the sinks of greenhouse gases” (IPCC 2007).

Forest and climate change governance is the process in which the role of forests in combating climate change is clearly recognized and emphasized.

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  1. Faculty of Forestry, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia

    Jelena Nedeljković & Mirjana Stanišić

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  1. European School of Sustainability Science and Research, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Hamburg, Germany

    Walter Leal Filho

  2. Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology, Institute for Interdisciplinary Research, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

    Anabela Marisa Azul

  3. Passo Fundo, University Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Passo Fundo, Brazil

    Luciana Brandli

  4. Istinye University, Istanbul, Turkey

    Pinar Gökcin Özuyar

  5. University of Chester, Chester, UK

    Tony Wall

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  1. Chair of Forestry Economics and Organisation, University of Belgrade - Faculty of Forestry, Belgrade, Serbia

    Dragan Nonic

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Nedeljković, J., Stanišić, M. (2020). Forest and Climate Change Governance. In: Leal Filho, W., Azul, A.M., Brandli, L., Özuyar, P.G., Wall, T. (eds) Climate Action. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95885-9_69

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