Perspective and parsimony in forest carbon management

Carbon Management

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 227-230

  Donato, Daniel C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

carbon storage; complexity; disturbance; forest carbon market; land use change; REDD+; simplicity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861793102     PISSN: 17583004     EISSN: 17583012     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4155/cmt.12.25     Document Type: Review

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