Can carbon credits fund riparian forest restoration?

Restoration Ecology

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 7-14

  Matzek, Virginia ^a   Puleston, Cedric ^b   Gunn, John ^c  

^a SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Spatial Informatics Group Natural Assets Laboratory ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Afforestation; Allometric equations; Carbon sequestration; Ecosystem services; Incentives; Offsets; Reforestation

Indexed keywords

AFFORESTATION; ALLOMETRY; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; EQUATION; INCENTIVE; REFORESTATION; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; RIPARIAN FOREST;

CALIFORNIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84921504357     PISSN: 10612971     EISSN: 1526100X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/rec.12153     Document Type: Article

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