Opportunities and challenges for carbon management on U.S. public lands

Land use and the Carbon Cycle: Advances in Integrated Science, Management, and Policy

Volumn 9781107011243, Issue , 2009, Pages 455-476

  Dilling, Lisa ^a   Birdsey, Richard ^b   Pan, Yude ^b  

^a Center for Science and Technology Policy Research ^*  (United States)

^b USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; LAND USE; LAWS AND LEGISLATION; RISK ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; VEGETATION;

BIOLOGICAL POTENTIAL; CARBON MANAGEMENT; COMPREHENSIVE ASSESSMENT; ECONOMIC POTENTIALS; INSTITUTIONAL CAPACITIES; INSTITUTIONAL CONTEXTS; NATURAL DISTURBANCE; VEGETATION TYPE;

PUBLIC RISKS;

EID: 84924193959     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511894824.023     Document Type: Chapter

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