Rethinking forest carbon assessments to account for policy institutions

Nature Climate Change

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 946-952

  Macintosh, Andrew ^a   Keith, Heather ^b   Lindenmayer, David ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOENERGY; CARBON BALANCE; EMISSION INVENTORY; FOREST MANAGEMENT; GREENHOUSE GAS; HARVESTING; LIFE CYCLE ANALYSIS; LITERATURE REVIEW; POLICY APPROACH; SILVICULTURE; SUSTAINABILITY; TIMBER; YIELD RESPONSE;

AUSTRALIA; NEW SOUTH WALES;

EID: 84942163876     PISSN: 1758678X     EISSN: 17586798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nclimate2695     Document Type: Article

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