Damaged forests provide an opportunity to mitigate climate change

GCB Bioenergy

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 44-60

  Lamers, Patrick ^a,b   Junginger, Martin ^a   Dymond, Caren C ^c   Faaij, André ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b Ecofys   (Germany)

^c Government of BC   (Canada)

Author keywords

British Columbia; Carbon break even; Carbon debt; Carbon parity; CBM CFS3; Climate change mitigation; Forest biomass; Mountain Pine Beetle; Temporal carbon analysis; Wood pellets

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; BUDGET CONTROL; FORESTRY; FOSSIL FUELS; FUEL STORAGE; HARVESTING; LIVING SYSTEMS STUDIES; LOGGING (FORESTRY); PELLETIZING; TIMBER; WOOD; WOOD PRODUCTS;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CARBON ANALYSIS; CBM-CFS3; CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION; FOREST BIOMASS; MOUNTAIN PINE BEETLE; WOOD PELLET;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

COLEOPTERA; HEXAPODA; PICEA; PINUS MUGO;

EID: 84889653198     PISSN: 17571693     EISSN: 17571707     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gcbb.12055     Document Type: Article

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