Accounting for time in mitigating global warming through land-use change and forestry

Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 239-270

  Fearnside, Philip M ^a   Lashof, Daniel A ^b   Moura Costa, Pedro ^c  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS DA AMAZÔNIA   (Brazil)

^b NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL   (United States)

^c EcoSecurities Ltd   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Carbon dioxide; Deforestation; Discount rate; Global warming; Greenhouse effect; Land use change; Mitigation; Time preference

Indexed keywords

CARBON CYCLE; CARBON EMISSION; FORESTRY; GLOBAL WARMING; LAND USE; MITIGATION;

EID: 0033787662     PISSN: 13812386     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1009625122628     Document Type: Review

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