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Research Questions – Session 1Research Questions – Session 1What management activities have the biggest potential to What management activities have the biggest potential to

affect quantifiable long-term carbon storage or affect quantifiable long-term carbon storage or sequestration or factors that affect carbon emissions?sequestration or factors that affect carbon emissions?

Research question/topic Priority Maturity

Social/Sci

Conversion: Aforestation, deforestation M L/L

Conversion: Influences on initial land use changes- Transportation networks in terms of deforestation, extraction issues

H L/L

Conversion/ Management: Protected ecosystems- management and creation

H L/M

Conversion/Management: Soil Carbon/soil change H L/L

Conversion/management: Carbon footprint of human development/settlement patterns/Landscape design/urban forestry/land degredation

H L/M

Conversion/Management: Bioenergy production design

Management: Fire as a land management tool, fire in wildlands, fire: fuel production.

Management: Agricultural

Management: Forestry alternatives (concession design, industrial forestry)

Management: shrubland/grassland on public/private lands lands

H

H

H

H

L/L

L/L

L/H

L/L

Conversion/Management: Bioenergy production design

Management: Fire as a land management tool, fire in wildlands, fire: fuel production.

Management: Agricultural

Management: Forestry alternatives (concession design, industrial forestry)

Management: shrubland/grassland on public/private lands lands

H

H

H

H

L/L

L/L

L/H

L/L

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ApproachesApproaches

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•How does carbon flux change over time as land uses mature/change?

•Where do you implement certain strategies? (longitudinal, developed/undeveloped, etc.)

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Research Questions – Session 1Research Questions – Session 1What don’t we know about the limits and potential What don’t we know about the limits and potential

for management to affect carbon cycle?for management to affect carbon cycle?

Effective Social Marketing

Variations in policy impacts over space

Impact of drivers on land use decision making over space?

What does the supply curve for carbon sequestration look like?

Definitions of land use categories (What are they? Where are they? Rates of change?)

What is the potential increase in carbon storage through management? What is the cost?

Are there different implications for carbon storage for different types of land use conversions?

What factors constrain potential effective management

Relating land use categories to biomass/soil carbon. Changes over time?

Interrelating water and land use

Climate change and carbon storage

Below ground carbon storage

Effect of patch size and shape on carbon storage

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Research Questions – Session 1Research Questions – Session 1What types of policies or institutions need to be What types of policies or institutions need to be

implemented to make the necessary changes in land use implemented to make the necessary changes in land use and practices?and practices?

•Holistic/systematic approach Policies•Value of ecosystem services•Value of carbon (cap and trade)•Farm Bill (cooperative conservation)•Tax Policies•Federal Land management policies•International trade policies•Private property rights•Demand management (certification, import restrictions, etc)•Bridge between technical knowledge and decision making. How do you effectively communicate science to decision makers? How do decision makers communicate goals to scientists?•Successful case studies on how science influences policy and vice versa.

Policies

InstitutionsInstitutions

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Institutions: International (RSB)

Regional monitoring and inventory institutions

Bridges gap between science and decision makers

Grassroots community groups What motivates grassroots groups? How can their goals line up with carbon storage goals?

Financial mechanisms to transfer carbon market capital to land managers on the ground when not large agribusiness, etc.

Educational reform to include trade-offs in carbon market and in life. Systematic approach.

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Breakout NotesBreakout Notes

Session 1 Group 1

Where is fire used?

Deforestation: as forest to ag? Or including intermediary steps.

Effects on biodiversity of management activities should be noted.

Including policy explicitly in management discussion instead of implicitly through social ranking.

Can you remove/table energy as a part of any discussion of land use/land cover? It has strong impact on land cover patterns and development pattern