Objectives [ Web View ]
The objective of TroFCCA is to promote adaptation of tropical forests to the adverse effects of climate change through the assessment of vulnerability and the development of policy-oriented adaptation strategies. The project is implemented in three regions and focused at understanding and addressing vulnerability and adaptation of goods and services from forests, emphasizing on those that play a significant role in national development policies.
The specific objectives of the project are:
- To evaluate the impacts of climate change and climate variability on tropical forest ecosystems in selected sites.
- To develop and test a set of methodologies for the assessment of vulnerability of relevant development topics resulting from impacts of climate change over forest ecosystems.
- To develop and test tools (databases, expert systems, models and others) for vulnerability assessment and the assessment of adaptation strategies.
- To develop and test criteria and indicators for adaptive management of tropical forests.
- To develop policy-oriented strategies for adaptation of tropical forests to climate change, taking into consideration the relevance of these systems to specific aspects of the development policy
- To carry out a science-policy dialogue in and across the three pilot regions (South East Asia; West Africa, Central America) in order to test the practicality of developed methods, to diffuse practical and useful information on adaptive forest management to reduce vulnerability, and to build capacities in developing countries through training sessions.