Capturing Carbon and Conserving Biodiversity: The Market ApproachIan Swingland Routledge, 2013 M06 17 - 368 pages 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 to stop. But while everyone talks about using a market-driven approach, few know how to do it. Faced with the situation on the ground what do you do? What is happening? How can you engage a system so that it is self-sustaining and the people self-motivated? This study explores how the growing market in carbon can help to conserve carbon-based life forms. It discusses how reducing global warming and saving biodiversity can both be achieved with the right market conditions. The contributors include conservation biologists, ecologists, biologists, economists, lawyers, community and tribal specialists, financial specialists, market makers, environment specialists, climatologists, resource managers, atmospheric scientists, project developers and corporate fund managers. |
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... natural gas and coal (1990–1999) Timber harvests in forests in the Pacific Northwest and the southern US, 1952–1997. Tables. Areal extent of natural and anthropogenic ecosystems at various periods of history, with percentage declines ...
... natural gas and coal (1990–1999) Timber harvests in forests in the Pacific Northwest and the southern US, 1952–1997. Tables. Areal extent of natural and anthropogenic ecosystems at various periods of history, with percentage declines ...
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... forests and the services they provide raise hopes for the reversal of tropical and temperate deforestation. Past management of forests appropriated the rights of forest communities, providing incentives to convert natural forest into ...
... forests and the services they provide raise hopes for the reversal of tropical and temperate deforestation. Past management of forests appropriated the rights of forest communities, providing incentives to convert natural forest into ...
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... natural capital requires the admission of forest communities into the polity and management of forest resources. The contributors to this book argue for responsible carbon-emission trading based on the clear and appropriate definition ...
... natural capital requires the admission of forest communities into the polity and management of forest resources. The contributors to this book argue for responsible carbon-emission trading based on the clear and appropriate definition ...
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... natural vegetation (carbon absorption), which can be explained partly by the regrowth of forests on abandoned lands, and partly by a global change factor, the most likely cause being 'fertilization' resulting from the increase in ...
... natural vegetation (carbon absorption), which can be explained partly by the regrowth of forests on abandoned lands, and partly by a global change factor, the most likely cause being 'fertilization' resulting from the increase in ...
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... natural forests in developing countries are rewarded rather than penalized. To correct incentives to clear natural forests through CDM crediting for afforestation and reforestation, for the first commitment period policy-makers should ...
... natural forests in developing countries are rewarded rather than penalized. To correct incentives to clear natural forests through CDM crediting for afforestation and reforestation, for the first commitment period policy-makers should ...
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afforestation annual Article 3.4 assessment atmospheric CO2 avoided deforestation baseline biodiversity biomass carbon credits carbon cycle carbon emissions carbon market carbon offsets carbon sequestration carbon sinks carbon stocks change and forestry Clean Development Mechanism climate change commitment period communities conservation Convention cost crops deforestation developing countries economic ecosystems ecotourism effects emissions reductions emissions trading emissions-trading energy Environment environmental services estimates example forest management forestry projects fossil-fuel GHG emissions global greenhouse gas harvesting hectares impacts implementation improved incentives increase industrialized IPCC Kyoto Protocol land land-use activities land-use change leakage LULUCF measures mitigation monitoring natural forests options organic Parties PgC yr−1 plant plantations potential practices production programme protected areas rates Ravindranath reduce regions result sector sequester carbon soil carbon sources species sustainable agriculture sustainable development tC ha−1 timber tion tonne of carbon tourism trees tropical forests UNFCCC watershed World Bank