Capturing Carbon and Conserving Biodiversity

by Swingland, Ian R.

• ISBN13: 9781853839511
• ISBN10: 1853839515
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-06-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

For decades conservation has been based on the donor-driven principle. It hasn't worked. For centuries, environmental pollution or degradation has been addressed by the same attitude, the "Polluter pays" principle. That hasn't worked either. The cycle has

Table of Contents

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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