Analysis of the carbon sequestration costs of afforestation and reforestation agroforestry practices and the use of cost curves to evaluate their potential for implementation of climate change mitigation

Ecological Economics

Volumn 69, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 469-477

  Torres, Arturo Balderas ^a,c,d   Marchant, Rob ^a   Lovett, Jon C ^a,d   Smart, James C R ^a   Tipper, Richard ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b Ecometrica   (United Kingdom)

^c Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Occidente   (Mexico)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Break even analysis; Carbon markets; Carbon sinks; Costs analysis; Scolel T

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION; AGROFORESTRY; CARBON BUDGET; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CARBON SINK; CLEAN DEVELOPMENT MECHANISM; CLIMATE CHANGE; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; FORESTRY PRACTICE; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; RURAL AREA;

MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 72049101443     PISSN: 09218009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2009.09.007     Document Type: Article

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