Climate Change and Sustainable Forest Management in Canada - A Guidebook for Assessing Vulnerability and Mainstreaming Adaptation into Decision Making

This document serves as a comprehensive guidebook for assessing the vulnerability of Sustainable Forest Management to climate change and implementing adaptation strategies. Recognizing that climate change is a critical challenge requiring a fundamental rethinking of forest management, the core purpose is to help forestry practitioners and policymakers determine if current SFM objectives can be met under future climates. The guidebook outlines a multi-chapter assessment process, including steps to define the SFM system of interest, evaluate current climate and forest conditions, develop future climate and forest impact scenarios, assess the system's adaptive capacity, and prioritize and mainstream adaptation options into existing policies and practices.