The land-use effects of a forest carbon policy in the US

Forest Policy and Economics

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 249-263

  Wong, Grace Y ^a   Alavalapati, Janaki R R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon sequestration; Computable general equilibrium model; Economic analysis; Forest policy; Land use change

Indexed keywords

CARBON POLICY;

CARBON DIOXIDE; INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS; MARKETING; PRODUCTION; PUBLIC POLICY;

FORESTRY;

EID: 0037589693     PISSN: 13899341     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1389-9341(02)00061-8     Document Type: Article

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