The Kyoto protocol and payments for tropical forest: An interdisciplinary method for estimating carbon-offset supply and increasing the feasibility of a carbon market under the CDM

Ecological Economics

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 203-221

  Pfaff, Alexander S P ^a   Kerr, Suzi ^b   Hughes, R Flint ^c   Liu, Shuguang ^d   Sanchez Azofeifa, G Arturo ^e   Schimel, David ^f   Tosi, Joseph ^g   Watson, Vicente ^g  

^a Howard Hughes Medical Institute   (United States)

^b Motu Economic Research   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^d USGS:EROS Data Center   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^f MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOGEOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^g Tropical Science Center   (Costa Rica)

Author keywords

Carbon; Forest; Global warming; Land use; Sequestration

Indexed keywords

CARBON SEQUESTRATION; ECONOMIC INSTRUMENT; EMISSION CONTROL; KYOTO PROTOCOL; TROPICAL FOREST;

COSTA RICA;

EID: 0033744364     PISSN: 09218009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0921-8009(00)00199-3     Document Type: Article

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