Reinforcing economic incentives for carbon credits for forests

Forest Policy and Economics

Volumn 6, Issue 3-4, 2004, Pages 321-328

  Cairns, Robert D ^a   Lasserre, Pierre ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Accidental loss; Carbon credit; Forest; Green accounting; Insurance

Indexed keywords

AFFORESTATION; CARBON CREDITS; INSURANCE MARKETS; IRREGULAR INTERVALS;

CARBON; COST EFFECTIVENESS; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; INSURANCE;

FORESTRY;

EID: 2442495300     PISSN: 13899341     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.forpol.2004.03.007     Document Type: Article

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