Insights from EMF-associated agricultural and forestry greenhouse gas mitigation studies

Human-Induced Climate Change: An Interdisciplinary Assessment

Volumn 9780521866033, Issue , 2007, Pages 238-251

  McCarl, Bruce A ^a   Murray, Brian C ^a   Kim, Man Keun ^a   Lee, Heng Chi ^b   Sands, Ronald D ^b   Schneider, Uwe A ^c  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Research unit Sustainability and Global Change ^*

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; FORESTRY; GREENHOUSE GASES; TIMBER;

CLIMATIC CHANGES; CLIMATIC CONDITIONS; DIFFERENT TREATMENTS; FOREST PRODUCTION; GREENHOUSE GAS MITIGATION; INTEGRATED ASSESSMENT MODELS; NORTHERN REGIONS; PRECIPITATION REGIMES;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

EID: 80052474990     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511619472.024     Document Type: Chapter

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