ニューヨーク州における森林拡大機会の統合的推定
Andrea Armstrong1, Richard C Stedman2, David Richardson3
1The Nature Conservancy of New York, Keene Valley, NY, USA. andrea.armstrong@tnc.org.
Environmental management
|February 24, 2026
まとめ
森林拡大は気候緩和に役立ちますが、土地所有者の意欲がその可能性を制限します。ニューヨーク州では、州の目標をはるかに下回る352,000エーカーしか適していませんが、これは、仕立てられた保全プログラムの必要性を強調しています。
科学分野:
- 環境科学
- 気候変動緩和
- 林業
背景:
- 森林拡大は、脱炭素化のための重要な気候緩和戦略である。
- 土地の可能性に関する現在の推定では、土地所有者の意欲のような重要な社会的要因が見落とされがちである。
- 以前の研究では、森林被覆の拡大に対する民間の土地所有者の意欲が探求された。
研究 の 目的:
- ニューヨーク州における土地転換の可能性と民間の土地所有者の社会的選好を統合すること。
- 社会的な側面を考慮した森林拡大の現実的な可能性を評価すること。
- ニューヨーク州の森林拡大に関する気候目標の進捗状況を評価すること。
主な方法:
- 分析では、ニューヨーク州における森林転換の可能性の推定と、民間の土地所有者の社会的選好を組み合わせた。
- 潜在的な推定から、活発に農業に使用されている土地を除外した。
- 意欲と土地の利用可能性に基づいて、最大で適切な面積を定量化した。
主要な成果:
- ニューヨーク州では、土地所有者の意欲を考慮し、活発な農業を除外すると、森林拡大に適した土地は推定352,000エーカーである。これは、ニューヨーク州の170万エーカーの森林拡大目標の約5分の1に相当する。社会的な要因は、森林拡大の達成可能な土地を大幅に制約する。
結論:
- 森林拡大による気候緩和目標の達成には、土地所有者の社会的選好に対処する必要がある。
- 社会的な側面を考慮すると、現在の可能性は州の目標を大幅に下回っている。
- 保全実践者や土地所有者固有のプログラムに対する支援の拡大が不可欠である。
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