Carbon banking: Creating flexibility for forest owners

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 257, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 378-383

  Bigsby, Hugh ^a  

^a LINCOLN UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Carbon sequestration; Carbon trading; Small forest owners

Indexed keywords

AGGLOMERATION; FORESTRY;

A CARBONS; ALTERNATIVE SYSTEMS; CARBON MARKETS; CARBON POOLS; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CARBON SEQUESTRATIONS; CARBON TRADING; FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS; FOREST AREAS; FOREST MANAGEMENTS; FOREST OWNERS; MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES; ON CURRENTS; PAYMENT SYSTEMS; SEQUESTERING CARBONS; SMALL FOREST OWNERS;

CARBON;

CARBON SEQUESTRATION; FOREST MANAGEMENT; HARVESTING; TRADE-ENVIRONMENT RELATIONS;

AGGLOMERATION; CARBON; CHELATION; COMMERCE; FOREST MANAGEMENT; FORESTRY; HARVESTING; PRODUCTION;

EID: 56449127923     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2008.09.018     Document Type: Article

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