Mitigation, adaptation, and climate change: Results from recent research on US timber markets

Environmental Science and Policy

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 235-248

  Sohngen, Brent ^a   Alig, Ralph ^b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Carbon sequestration; Economic analysis; Forest sector; Mitigation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002101223     PISSN: 14629011     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1462-9011(00)00094-0     Document Type: Review

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