Meeting Europe's climate change commitments: Quantitative estimates of the potential for carbon mitigation by agriculture

Global Change Biology

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 525-539

  Smith, Pete ^a   Powlson, David S ^a   Smith, Jo U ^a   Falloon, Pete ^a   Coleman, Kevin ^a  

^a ROTHAMSTED RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Bioenergy crops; Carbon mitigation; Carbon sequestration; Climate change; Europe; Kyoto protocol article 3.4; Land management; Soil organic carbon; Soil organic matter

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT; CARBON; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; KYOTO PROTOCOL; LAND MANAGEMENT; MITIGATION;

EUROPEAN UNION;

EID: 0034047705     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2486.2000.00331.x     Document Type: Article

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