Sequestering carbon in tropical forests: Experiments, policy implications, and climatic change

Society and Natural Resources

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 525-531

  Rudel, Thomas K ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon sequestration; Climate change; Deforestation; Forest transition; Reforestation

Indexed keywords

CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; DEFORESTATION; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; GLOBAL WARMING;

EID: 0034915449     PISSN: 08941920     EISSN: 15210723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08941920117199     Document Type: Article

References (22)

1. Assies, W. 1997. Going nuts for the rainforest: Non-timber forest products, forest conservation and sustainability in Amazonia. Amsterdam: Thela.
2. Catton, W. 1981. Overshoot: The ecological basis for revolutionary change. Champaign-Urbana: University of Illinois Press.
3. Cochrane, M., A. Alencar, M. Schulze, C. Souza, Jr., P. Lefebvre, and D. Nepstad. 1999. Investigating positive feedbacks in the fire dynamics of closed canopy tropical forests. Paper presented at the conference patterns and Processes of Land Use and Forest Change in Amazonia, March, Gainesville, FL.
4. Davis, K. 1963. The theory of change and response in modern demographic history. Population Index 18:345-363.
5. Dixon, R., S. Brown, R. Houghton, A. Solomon, M. Trexler, and J. Wisniewski. 1994. Carbon pools and flux of global forest ecosystems. Science 263:185-190.
6. Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations. 1993. Forest Resources Assessment. 1990: Tropical Countries. Forestry Paper No. 112. Rome: FAO.
7. Gerschenkron, A. 1962. Economic backwardness in historical perspective. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press.
8. Harcourt, C., and J. Sayer. 1996. The conservation atlas of tropical forests: The Americas. New York: Simon and Schuster.
9. Kirk, D. 1971. A new demographic transition. In Rapid population growth: Consequences and policy implications, 123-147. Washington, DC: National Academy of Sciences.
10. Mahlman, J. 1999. What we know about climate change.
11. Manning, E. 1998. Skeptics wary of Amazon initiative. United Press International, 29 April. < http://forests.org/forests/brazil.html >
12. Mather, A., and C. Needle. 1998. The forest transition: a theoretical basis. Area 30(2):117-124.
13. May, R. 1973. Stability and complexity in model ecosystems. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
14. Peters, C., A. Gentry, and R. Mendelsohn. 1989. Valuation of an Amazon rainforest. Nature 339:655-656.
15. Roberts, J. T., and P. Grimes. 1997. Carbon intensity and economic development, 1962-1991: A brief exploration of the environmental Kuznets curve. World Dev. 25:191-198.
16. Rudel, T. 1998. Is there a forest transition? Rural Sociol. 63(4):533-552.
17. Schneider, R. 1995. Government and the economy on the Amazon frontier. Environment Paper No. 11. Washington, DC: World Bank.
18. Sedjo, R., and A. Solomon. 1989. Climate and forests. In Greenhouse warming: Abatement and adaptation, eds. N. Rosenberg, W. Easterling, P. Crosson, and J. Darmstadter, 105-119. Washington, DC: Resources for the Future.
19. Schemo, D. 1998. Data show recent burning of Amazon is worst ever. New York Times 27 January.
20. Smith, J., K. Mulongoy, R. Persson, and J. Sayer. 1999. Harnessing carbon markets for tropical forest conservation. Jakarta: Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR).
21. Southgate, D. 1998. Tropical forest conservation: An economic assessment of the alternatives in Latin America. New York: Oxford University Press.
22. Vayda, A. 1999. Finding causes of the 1997-98 Indonesian forest fires: Problems and possibilities. Jakarta: World Wide Fund for Nature. < www.wwf.or.id>