Baselines for land-use change in the tropics: Application to avoided deforestation projects

Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1001-1026

  Brown, Sandra ^a   Hall, Myrna ^b   Andrasko, Ken ^c   Ruiz, Fernando ^d   Marzoli, Walter ^e   Guerrero, Gabriela ^f   Masera, Omar ^f   Dushku, Aaron ^a   DeJong, Ben ^g   Cornell, Joseph ^b  

^a WINROCK INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^d AC ^*  (Mexico)

^e Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico ^*  (Italy)

^f INSTITUTO DE MATEMÁTICAS   (Mexico)

^g EL COLEGIO DE LA FRONTERA SUR   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Avoided deforestation; Carbon sequestration; Forestry; GEOMOD; Land use change; LULUCF; Tropics

Indexed keywords

CARBON EMISSION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEFORESTATION; LAND USE CHANGE; MAPPING METHOD; MITIGATION; MODELING; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GROWTH; SOCIOECONOMIC CONDITIONS; TROPICAL REGION;

BELIZE [CENTRAL AMERICA]; BOLIVIA; BRAZIL; CAMPECHE; CENTRAL AMERICA; CHIAPAS; MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; MICHOACAN; NORTH AMERICA; PARANA; SANTA CRUZ [BOLIVIA]; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 34347370855     PISSN: 13812386     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11027-006-9062-5     Document Type: Article

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