IV. Management actions: Mitigation of carbon emissions to the atmosphere by forest management

Commonwealth Forestry Review

Volumn 75, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 80-X8

  Brown, Sandra ^a   Sathaye, Jayant ^b   Cannell, Melvin ^c   Kauppi, Pekka E ^d  

^a U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^d FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

Carbon sequestration; Climate change; Costs and benefits; Deforestation; Forestation

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE EMISSION; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; DEFORESTATION; FOREST MANAGEMENT; FOREST REGENERATION;

EID: 0029768604     PISSN: 00103381     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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