Transfers and environmental co-benefits of carbon sequestration in agricultural soils: Retiring agricultural land in the Upper Mississippi River Basin

Climatic Change

Volumn 80, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 91-107

  Feng, Hongli ^a   Kurkalova, Lyubov A ^b   Kling, Catherine L ^a   Gassman, Philip W ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA A AND T STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; CARBON;

ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION;

SOILS;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; AGRICULTURAL SOIL; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; INCOME DISTRIBUTION; POLICY APPROACH; POLICY STRATEGY;

AGRICULTURE; CARBON; SOIL;

MISSISSIPPI RIVER; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33846423488     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-006-9143-1     Document Type: Article

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