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" Climate change and forests : "
Charlotte Streck [and others], editors.
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1047485
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b801855
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Climate change and forests : : emerging policy and market opportunities /\ Charlotte Streck [and others], editors.
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London :: Chatham House ;Washington, D.C. :: Brookings Institution Press,, ©2008.
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1 online resource (xiii, 346 pages) :: illustrations
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0815701489
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081578192X
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9780815781929
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Foreword / David Freestone -- Part one, Introduction -- 1. Climate change and forestry : an introduction / Charlotte Streck [and others] -- 2. The idea of market-based mechanisms for forest conservation and climate change / Rosimeiry Portela, Kelly J. Wendland, and Laura Ledwith Pennypacker -- Part two, The international arena -- 3. History and context of LULUCF in the climate regime / Eveline Trines -- 4. Risks and criticisms of forestry-based climate change mitigation and carbon trading / Johannes Ebeling -- 5. Forest carbon and other ecosystem services : synergies between the Rio Conventions / Jan Fehse -- 6. Forestry projects under the Clean Development Mechanism and Joint Implementation : rules and regulations / Sebastian M. Scholz and Martina Jung -- Case study : the Humbo Community-based Natural Regeneration Project, Ethiopia / Paul Dettmann, Tony Rinaudo, and Assefa Tofu -- 7. How renewable is bioenergy? / Bernhard Schlamadinger [and others] -- Part three, Practical experiences -- 8. Design issues in clean development mechanism forestry projects / Bruno Locatelli, Lucio Pedroni and Zenia Salinas -- Case study : The San Nicolás Project in Colombia / Carmenza Robledo and Patricia Tobón -- 9. The permanence challenge : an economic analysis of temporary credits / Franck Lecocq and Stéphane Couture -- 10. Project-based mechanisms : methodological approaches for measuring and monitoring carbon credits / Timothy Pearson, Sarah Walker, and Sandra Brown -- 11. Characterizing sequestration rights legally in Chile / Dominique Hervé and Edumundo Claro -- 12. Legal issues and contractual solutions for LULUCF projects under the Clean Development Mechanism / Monique Miller, Martijn Wilder, and Eric Knight -- Part four, Outlook : avoided deforestation and the post-Kyoto agenda -- 13. Reducing emissions from deforestation in developing countries : an introduction / Robert O'Sullivan -- 14. An accounting mechanism for reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation of forests in developing countries / Danilo Mollicone [and others] -- Case study : creative financing and multisector partners in Madagascar / Jeannicq Randrianarisioa, Ben Vitale, and Sonal Pandya -- 15. A Latin American perspective on land use, land-use change, and forestry negotiations under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change / Manuel Estrada Porrua and Andrea García-Guerrero -- Case study : The Noel Kempff Climate Action Project, Bolivia / Jörg Seifert-Granzin -- 16. Compensated reductions : rewarding developing countries for protecting forest carbon / Stephen Schwartzman and Paulo Moutinho -- 17. Creating incentives for avoiding further deforestation : the nested approach / Charlotte Streck [and others].
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"Frames forestry activities within climate-change policy context. Analyzes the operation and efficacy of market-based mechanisms for forest conservation and climate change. Explores voluntary schemes for carbon crediting, provides an overview of carbon accounting best practices, and presents tools for future sequestration and offset programs. Concludes with options for slowing deforestation"--Provided by publisher.
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Carbon sequestration.
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Climatic changes.
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Forest microclimatology.
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BUSINESS ECONOMICS-- Environmental Economics.
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BUSINESS ECONOMICS-- Green Business.
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Carbon sequestration.
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Climatic changes.
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Forest microclimatology.
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NATURE-- Natural Resources.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE-- General.
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| Dewey Classification
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333.75/15
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SD390.7.C55C57 2008eb
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Streck, Charlotte.
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