Climate Change Impacts Due to Biogenic Carbon: Addressing the Issue of Attribution Using Two Metrics With Very Different Outcomes

Journal of Sustainable Forestry

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 298-326

  Guest, Geoffrey ^a   Strømman, Anders Hammer ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

attribution; bioenergy; biomass; carbon credit; climate change; GTP; harvested wood products

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CLIMATE CHANGE; GLOBAL WARMING; HARVESTING; LIFE CYCLE; WOOD PRODUCTS;

ATTRIBUTION; BIO-ENERGY; CARBON CREDITS; GTP; HARVESTED WOOD PRODUCTS;

BIOMASS;

AIR TEMPERATURE; BIOENERGY; BIOGENIC MATERIAL; BIOMASS; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON FLUX; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; COOLING; HARVESTING; LIFE CYCLE ANALYSIS; SUSTAINABLE FORESTRY; WOOD;

BIOMASS; CARBON; HARVESTING; LIFE CYCLE; SEASONAL VARIATION; WOOD PRODUCTS;

NORWAY;

EID: 84897048825     PISSN: 10549811     EISSN: 1540756X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10549811.2013.872997     Document Type: Article

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