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Mitigation potential and cost in tropical forestry - relative role for agroforestry
Makundi, Willy R.; Sathaye, Jayant A. - 2009
forestland for other uses such as agriculture and pasture. By using data on estimated carbon sequestration, emission avoidance … and potential area currently engaged in agriculture, but they pose unique challenges for carbon and cost accounting due to …
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A Modern Tragedy of the Non-Commons: Agro-Industrial Change and Equity in Brazil's Babassu Palm Zone
May, Peter H. - 1986
"Agrarian change and industrial innovation jointly affect the economic role of successional babassu palm forests that … use (chiefly pasture) conversion and technical change in both agriculture and babassu industries have redefined property …
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The Effect of Transaction Costs on Greenhouse Gas Emission Mitigation for Agriculture and Forestry
McCarl, Bruce A. (contributor) - 2011
storage costs. Using an agriculture and forestry sector modelcalled FASOMGHG, the dissertation finds that consideration of …(collectively called offsets). Many have asked how agriculture and forestry canparticipate in mitigation efforts. Given that over 80 … percent of greenhouse gas emissionsarise from the energy sector, the role of agriculture and forestry depends critically on …
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The Potential Economic and Environmental Costs of GHG Mitigation Measures for Cattle Sectors in Northern Ireland
Minihan, Erin S.; Wu, Zipling - 2011
National greenhouse gas (GHG) mitigation strategy can benefit from information on the technical and economic viability of abatement options. The life-cycle-analysis (LCA) and marginal abatement cost curve (MACC) approaches provide a good, although partial, indication for the potential of...
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Special Issue On Estimation Of Baselines And Leakage In CarbonMitigation Forestry Projects
Sathaye, Jayant A.; Andrasko, Kenneth - 2009
There is a growing acceptance that the environmentalbenefits of forests extend beyond traditional ecological benefits …
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Comprehensive mitigation assessment process (COMAP) - Description and instruction manual
Makundi, Willy; Sathaye, Jayant - 2008
In order to prepare policies and plans to reduce GHG emissions, national policy-makers need information on the costs and benefits of different mitigation options in addition to their carbon implications. Policy-makers must weigh the costs, benefits, and impacts of climate change mitigation and...
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Biomass Gasification Combined Cycle
Judith A. Kieffer - 2008
Gasification combined cycle continues to represent an important defining technology area for the forest products industry. The ''Forest Products Gasification Initiative'', organized under the Industry's Agenda 2020 technology vision and supported by the DOE ''Industries of the Future'' program,...
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DOE Energy Challenge Project
Frank Murray; Michael Schaepe - 2010
Project Objectives:1. Promote energy efficiency concepts in undergraduate and graduate education. 2. Stimulate and interest in pulp and paper industrial processes, which promote and encourage activities in the area of manufacturing design efficiency.3. Attract both industrial and media...
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Development Of Regional Climate Mitigation Baseline For A DominantAgro-Ecological Zone Of Karnataka, India
Sudha, P.; Shubhashree, D.; Khan, H.; Hedge, G.T.; … - 2009
Setting a baseline for carbon stock changes in forest andland use sector mitigation projects is an essential step for assessingadditionality of the project. There are two approaches for settingbaselines namely, project-specific and regional baseline. This paperpresents the methodology adopted...
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Methodological Issues In Forestry Mitigation Projects: A CaseStudy Of Kolar District
Ravindranath, N.H.; Murthy, I.K.; Sudha, P.; Ramprasad, V. - 2009
There is a need to assess climate change mitigationopportunities in forest sector in India in the context of methodologicalissues such as additionality, permanence, leakage, measurement andbaseline development in formulating forestry mitigation projects. A casestudy of forestry mitigation...
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