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List of figures and tables | p. x |
About the contributors | p. xiv |
Preface | p. xviii |
Acknowledgements | p. xx |
List of acronyms and abbreviations | p. xxi |
Introduction | p. 1 |
Carbon and Climate Change | |
Forests, carbon and global climate | p. 15 |
Changes in the use and management of forests for abating carbon emissions: issues and challenges under the Kyoto Protocol | p. 42 |
An overview of a free-market approach to climate change and conservation | p. 56 |
Potential carbon mitigation and income in developing countries from changes in use and management of agricultural and forest lands | p. 70 |
The role of multilateral institutions | p. 90 |
Electricity generation: options for reduction in carbon emissions | p. 102 |
Measuring, monitoring and verification of carbon benefits for forest-based projects | p. 118 |
Understanding and managing leakage in forest-based greenhouse-gas-mitigation projects | p. 134 |
Environmental Services | |
The influence of land-use change and landscape dynamics on the climate system: relevance to climate-change policy beyond the radiative effect of greenhouse gases | p. 157 |
Economic, biological and policy constraints on the adoption of carbon farming in temperate regions | p. 173 |
The role of sustainable agriculture and renewable-resource management in reducing greenhouse-gas emissions and increasing sinks in China and India | p. 195 |
Social capital from carbon property: creating equity for indigenous people | p. 218 |
Species survival and carbon retention in commercially exploited tropical rainforest | p. 231 |
Animal conservation, carbon and sustainability | p. 241 |
Collateral biodiversity benefits associated with 'free-market' approaches to sustainable land use and forestry activities | p. 262 |
Developing markets for forest environmental services: an opportunity for promoting equity while securing efficiency? | p. 272 |
The Future Model | |
Carbon sinks and emissions trading under the Kyoto Protocol: a legal analysis | p. 283 |
Protecting terrestrial ecosystems and the climate through a global carbon market | p. 309 |
Designing a carbon market that protects forests in developing countries | p. 332 |
Greenhouse-gas-trading markets | p. 346 |
Index | p. 358 |
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