Trees, forests and water: Cool insights for a hot world

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F25173154%3A_____%2F17%3AN0000005" target="_blank" >RIV/25173154:_____/17:N0000005 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0959378017300134" target="_blank" >http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0959378017300134</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2017.01.002" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2017.01.002</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Trees, forests and water: Cool insights for a hot world

Original language description

Forest-driven water and energy cycles are poorly integrated into regional, national, continental and global decision-making on climate change adaptation, mitigation, land use and water management. This constrains humanity’s ability to protect our planet’s climate and life-sustaining functions. The substantial body of research we review reveals that forest, water and energy interactions provide the foundations for carbon storage, for cooling terrestrial surfaces and for distributing water resources. Forests and trees must be recognized as prime regulators within the water, energy and carbon cycles. If these functions are ignored, planners will be unable to assess, adapt to or mitigate the impacts of changing land cover and climate. Our call to action targets a reversal of paradigms, from a carbon-centric model to one that treats the hydrologic and climate-cooling effects of trees and forests as the first order of priority. For reasons of sustainability, carbon storage must remain a secondary, though valuable, by-product. The effects of tree cover on climate at local, regional and continental scales offer benefits that demand wider recognition. The forest- and tree-centered research insights we review and analyze provide a knowledge-base for improving plans, policies and actions. Our understanding of how trees and forests influence water, energy and carbon cycles has important implications, both for the structure of planning, management and governance institutions, as well as for how trees and forests might be used to improve sustainability, adaptation and mitigation efforts.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10618 - Ecology

Project

<a href="/en/project/TE02000077" target="_blank" >TE02000077: Smart Regions - Buildings and Settlements Information Modelling, Technology and Infrastructure for Sustainable Development</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2017

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Global Environmental Change

ISSN

0959-3780

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

2017

Issue of the periodical within the volume

43

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

11

Pages from-to

51-61

UT code for WoS article

000398868900005

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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