Intervention · Intervention

Forest management

Natural resource management that plans and regulates the use, conservation, and regeneration of forests to sustain their productivity, ecosystem services, and resilience under climate change.

Definition source: FAO Sustainable Forest Management

Synonyms

forest conservation, community-managed forests

Broader

Natural resource management

Narrower

Afforestation, Reforestation, Avoided deforestation, Sustainable forest management

Relations

sequesters Carbon sink
applies-to Forest
produces Carbon sequestered

Counts as adaptation

Intervention addresses a climate hazard, OR produces a qualifying outcome (adaptation-specific or hazard-conditioned), OR produces an adaptation-specific impact; NOT adaptation when done purely for productivity, market, or development with no hazard link and no hazard-referenced result.

Mitigation

Mitigation-conditional: Intervention reduces emissions of a source or gas, OR sequesters carbon, OR produces a mitigation outcome; NOT mitigation when done for productivity, market, or development reasons only, with no emissions link and no emissions-referenced result.

Provenance

Domain expert; Lexicon consensus

Identifier

INT_064 · https://mlolita26.github.io/cgiar-climate-taxonomy/terms/INT_064
(planned permanent identifier: https://w3id.org/cgiar/climate-taxonomy/INT_064)