A brief overview of carbon sequestration economics and policy

Environmental Management

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 545-558

  Richards, Kenneth R ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon; Climate change; Economics; Forest; Policy; Sequestration

Indexed keywords

CARBON; COSTS; INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

CARBON SEQUESTRATION; PUBLIC FINANCE INTERACTIONS;

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING;

CARBON;

CARBON SEQUESTRATION; COST; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; POLICY ANALYSIS;

CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONFERENCE PAPER; COST; ECONOMIC ASPECT; FOREST; POLICY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; SOIL ANALYSIS;

EID: 3042820525     PISSN: 0364152X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00267-003-9111-8     Document Type: Conference Paper

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