Principal Research Scientist NCASI Blacksburg, Virginia, United States
Many organizations hope to combat forest loss by requiring reporting of supply-chain impacts on land use change. This presentation will review challenges faced by companies attempting to report under these programs, and offer some best practices in assessing and reporting forest area loss.
Learning Objectives:
provide specific examples of programs requiring assessment and reporting of forest area loss, and indicate who might be using those programs;
recognize the critical differences between changes in land use and changes in land cover, and how these are relevant in a forestry setting;
explain the pros and cons of different approaches to quantify forest area change, and the uncertainties inherent in these approaches
describe how forest area change is affected by markets for wood products as reported in the scientific literature
discuss some options for mitigating the unintended negative consequences that may be present in some reporting protocols.
