Intresting but I have strong reservations on its validity. Can landuse pattern and ecosystem functioning cope with the natural changes in temperature and acidity. Are these due to only due to anthropogenic forcings? the acceleration in climate change is surely due to human forcings but there are major geologic processes playing key role on a very very long time scale.

Thank you Saif, I think that the answer to your questionn ias NO. There is a need to change the development culture world over, specially in developed countries. But a territorial approach can help to construct concrete answers that could be scaled up in more and more territories in a long run process. A Climate Smart Territory is a process that takes time and is only one of the many strategies strategies that can be used. Then my questions remain. If I know how a CST could look like, then I know whay I need to do.

Climate change mitigation? I hope you will become aware that almost all climate change is NATURAL and has been going on since the Earth cooled..... see: 

One of many papers showing that CLIMATE WARMING CAUSES INCREASED ATMOSPHERIC CO2 CONCENTRATIONS suggests  that the IPCC thesis and the assumptions of Global Climate Models ----------- that that assume CLIMATE WARMING

IS CAUSEDBY ATMOSPHERIC CO2 CONCENTRATIONS ----------------- are in serious error.... see: 

http://www.clim-past.net/8/1213/2012/cp-8-1213-2012.html

The IPCC thesis and the assumptions of Global Climate Models that that assume that

CLIMATE WARMING IS CAUSED BY  INCREASED ATMOSPHERIC CO2 CONCENTRATIONS ..........has been the basis for taxpayer funded and enormously misguided government policies and regulations designed to curb human emissions of CO2.

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QUOTING from the FULL TEXT of the paper (with somewhat 'iffy' English) concerning the dominance of the Sun's influence on the Earth's CYCLICAL warming and cooling ................. available at:

 http://www.doiserbia.nb.rs/Article.aspx?id=0354-98361500018A&AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1#.VRbMQPnF-ah

"The start of the Grand Minimum of TSI is anticipated approximately in cycle 27±1 approximately in 2043±11 and the beginning of the phase of deep cooling of the 19th Little Ice Age (of the Maunder Minimum type) in the past 7,500 years approximately in 2060±11, with possible duration of 45-65 years "

"The Sun is controlling and practically totally determining the mechanism of quasi-bicentennial cyclic alternations of climate changes from warming to Little Ice Age and set corresponding time-scales for practically all physical processes taking place in the Sun-Earth system. The current long practically stable levels of World Ocean and of temperature additionally reflects the current state of global warming during past 17 years, which are under the direct control of the quasi-bicentennial decrease of TSI. Approximately in the end of 2014 we begin the descent into 19th Little Ice Age in the past 7,500 years " 

SECOND you asked if forests can provide biomass to produce the energy of the future in a sustainable way.

Using the forests of Canada (a country with low population density) as an example --- IF the total annual allowable harvest was used to produce energy it might yield 2 EXAJOULES per year --- while Canada presently uses 10 EXAJOULES per year ... so there is no way that the forests of most countries could supply yhe energy required for modern civilization// sustainably or not.

Peter Salonius

The paradigm of integrating territorial, value chains and livelihoods, as sure pathways to sustainable development based on approach for food, nutritional, health and livelihood security through climate smart territorial concept.