Forest transitions and carbon fluxes
Subtitle: global scenarios and policies
By: edited by Matti Palo.
Contributors: Palo, Matti.
Series: World development studies,; 15
Publisher: UNU World Institute for Development Economics Research
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Helsinki, Finland
Language: eng
Number of pages: 166
Subjects: Deforestation -- Tropics -- Mathematical models.; Carbon sequestration -- Tropics -- Mathematical models.; Deforestation -- Tropics -- Government policy.; Carbon sequestration -- Tropics -- Government policy.; Forest management -- Tropics -- Economic aspects.; Emissions trading.; Global warming.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: value: Global scenarios and policies on forests and carbon -- Matti Palo and Birger Solberg; value: Scenarios on tropical deforestation and carbon fluxes -- Matti Palo, Erkki Lehto and Raija-Riitta Enroth; value: Forest expansion and carbon fluxes in the North -- Pekka E. Kauppi; value: Carbon emission scenarios for the Brazilian Amazon -- Eustáquio J. Reis; value: Forest plantations and carbon sequestration in Chile -- Gerardo Mery and Markku Kanninen; value: Economics of tropical forest land use and global warming -- Paula Horne; value: Policy options in carbon sequestration via sustainable forest management: an example from the North -- Hans Fredrik Hoen and Birger Solberg; value: Cost efficiency, environmental impacts and potential of carbon sequestration in forestry in Indonesia -- Birger Solberg and Boen Poernama; value: International policy issues on carbon fluxes and forests in the South -- Carlos Eduardo Frickmann Young.