Assessing and monitoring carbon offset projects: The Costa Rican case

Commonwealth Forestry Review

Volumn , Issue 250, 1998, Pages 214-218

  Trines, Eveline P ^a  

^a Societe Generale du Surveillance   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biomass; Carbon storage; Climate change; Forest; Measurement

Indexed keywords

CARBON STORAGE; CLIMATE CHANGE; EMISSIONS CONTROL; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FORESTRY; PROTECTED AREA;

EID: 0031766175     PISSN: 00103381     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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