The global climate change mitigation strategy REDD: Monitoring costs and uncertainties jeopardize economic benefits

Climatic Change

Volumn 119, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 247-259

  Plugge, Daniel ^a   Baldauf, Thomas ^b   Köhl, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b THÜNEN INSTITUTE OF CLIMATE SMART AGRICULTURE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION; ECONOMIC BENEFITS; FINANCIAL BENEFITS; FOREST DEGRADATION; GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGES; OPERATIONAL MONITORING SYSTEM; REDUCING EMISSIONS; SIMULATION STUDIES;

CARBON; COSTS; ECONOMICS; MONITORING;

DEFORESTATION;

CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DEFORESTATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; GLOBAL CHANGE; NUMERICAL MODEL; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

CARBON; COSTS; DEFORESTATION; ECONOMICS; FINANCE; SEASONAL VARIATION;

EID: 84879134010     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-012-0524-3     Document Type: Article

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