Stabilizing the agricultural frontier: Leveraging REDD with biofuels for sustainable development

Biomass and Bioenergy

Volumn 35, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 4815-4823

  Killeen, Timothy J ^a   Schroth, Goetz ^a   Turner, Will ^a   Harvey, Celia A ^a   Steininger, Marc K ^a   Dragisic, Christine ^a   Mittermeier, Russell A ^a  

^a Betty and Gordon Moore Center for Science and Oceans   (United States)

Author keywords

Biofuels; CDM; Deforestation; REDD+; Reforestation; Sustainable development

Indexed keywords

AFFORESTATION/REFORESTATION; BIOFUEL PRODUCTION; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CDM; CLEAN DEVELOPMENT MECHANISM; COLOMBIA; FOREST CONSERVATION; FOREST DEGRADATION; GHG EMISSION; HUMAN WELFARE; INDONESIA; KALIMANTAN; MADAGASCAR; POLICY MODEL; REDD+; RENEWABLE ENERGIES; UNITED NATIONS FRAMEWORK CONVENTION ON CLIMATE CHANGES; WIN-WIN-WIN; WOODY PERENNIALS;

BIODIVERSITY; CARBON; CONSERVATION; CULTIVATION; DEFORESTATION; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; EMISSION CONTROL; ENERGY POLICY; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GAS EMISSIONS; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GASES; PLANNING; REFORESTATION; REVEGETATION; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

BIOFUELS;

AFFORESTATION; BIOFUEL; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CLEAN DEVELOPMENT MECHANISM; CULTIVATION; DEFORESTATION; DEVELOPING WORLD; EMISSION CONTROL; FRONTIER REGION; GREENHOUSE GAS; REFORESTATION; RENEWABLE RESOURCE; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; STABILIZATION; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

AGRICULTURE; BIOMASS; CONSERVATION; CULTIVATION; DEFORESTATION; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FUELS; GREENHOUSE GASES; SEASONAL VARIATION; SUSTAINABLE FOREST MANAGEMENT;

BRAZIL; EAST KALIMANTAN; INDONESIA; PARA [BRAZIL];

EID: 82155197175     PISSN: 09619534     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biombioe.2011.06.027     Document Type: Article

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