Setting priorities for land management to mitigate climate change

Carbon Balance and Management

Volumn 7, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Böttcher, Hannes ^a   Freibauer, Annette ^b   Scholz, Yvonne ^c   Gitz, Vincent ^d   Ciais, Philippe ^d   Mund, Martina ^e   Wutzler, Thomas ^f   Schulze, Ernst Detlef ^f  

^a INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED SYSTEMS ANALYSIS   (Austria)

^b THÜNEN INSTITUTE OF CLIMATE SMART AGRICULTURE   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^d CNRS   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^f MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOGEOCHEMISTRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Bioenergy; Carbon balance; Carbon sequestration; Carbon stock; Forestry; Land management; Regional modelling; Substitution

Indexed keywords

BIOENERGY; CARBON BALANCE; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; EMISSION CONTROL; ENERGY USE; FORESTRY PRODUCTION; FOSSIL FUEL; LAND MANAGEMENT; LAND USE CHANGE; LIFE CYCLE ANALYSIS; LONG-TERM CHANGE; RECYCLING; SUSTAINABLE FORESTRY;

EUROPE;

NUCLEOPOLYHEDROVIRUS; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 84862980759     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17500680     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1750-0680-7-5     Document Type: Article

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