Tropical forestry practices for carbon sequestration: A review and case study from Southeast Asia

AMBIO

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 279-283

  Costa, Pedro Moura ^a,b  

^a COPEC ^*  (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

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50. This paper greatly benefited from the comments and suggestions of Sandra Brown (US EPA), Robert Dixon (US Country Studies Program), Don Jones (COPEC, US), Clive Marsh (Innoprise Corporation, Malaysia), Ruth Nussbaum (SGS Forestry, UK), John Palmer (Tropical Forestry Services, UK), Michelle Pinard (Univ. of Florida, US), Francis Putz (Univ. of Florida, CIFOR), Douglas Sheil (Oxford Forestry Institute, UK), Andreas Schulte (German Technical Cooperation Agency, GTZ), Francis Sullivan (WWF, UK), Tom Sullivan (New England Power, US), and Hannah Rilley (Harvard International Institute for Development, US).