Estimating leakage from forest carbon sequestration programs

Land Economics

Volumn 80, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 109-124

  Murray, Brian C ^a   McCarl, Bruce A ^b   Lee, Heng Chi ^c  

^a RTI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON SEQUESTRATION; ESTIMATION METHOD; FORESTRY PRODUCTION; GREENHOUSE GAS;

EID: 1342287914     PISSN: 00237639     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3147147     Document Type: Article

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