Estimating the economic potential for agricultural soil carbon sequestration in the Central United States using an aggregate econometric-process simulation model

Climatic Change

Volumn 80, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 145-171

  Antle, John M ^a   Capalbo, Susan M ^a   Paustian, Keith ^b   Ali, Md Kamar ^a  

^a MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SOILS;

AGRICULTURAL SOIL; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; ECONOMETRIC PRODUCTION MODELS;

AGRICULTURE;

AGRICULTURAL MODELING; AGRICULTURAL SOIL; ASSESSMENT METHOD; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CONSERVATION TILLAGE; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ECONOMETRICS; FALLOW; GREENHOUSE GAS; NUMERICAL MODEL; SOIL CARBON;

AGRICULTURE; CARBON; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SOIL;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

TRITICUM AESTIVUM; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 33751209826     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-006-9176-5     Document Type: Article

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