Forest cover, carbon sequestration, and wildlife habitat: Policy review and modeling of tradeoffs among land-use change scenarios

Environmental Science and Policy

Volumn 21, Issue , 2012, Pages 94-105

  Rittenhouse, Chadwick D ^a,b   Rissman, Adena R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon sequestration; Climate mitigation; Environmental policy; Land cover change

Indexed keywords

AFFORESTATION; ARTICLE; BIOFUEL PRODUCTION; BIOMASS; CARBON FOOTPRINT; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CARBON STORAGE; CLIMATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENERGY RESOURCE; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; FOREST; FOREST CONNECTIVITY; FOREST COVER; FOREST DYNAMICS; FOREST LOSS; FOREST MANAGEMENT; FOREST STRUCTURE; GOVERNMENT; GRASSLAND; HABITAT; LAND USE; LAND USE CHANGE; POLICY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES CONSERVATION; THEORETICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES; WILDLIFE CONSERVATION;

EID: 84861815509     PISSN: 14629011     EISSN: 18736416     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2012.04.006     Document Type: Article

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