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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... carbon content of different vegetation types The relationships between (a) net primary productivity (NPP) and the residence time for carbon in soil and biomass and (b) between NPP and total (soil plus biomass) carbon stock Total carbon ...
... carbon content of different vegetation types The relationships between (a) net primary productivity (NPP) and the residence time for carbon in soil and biomass and (b) between NPP and total (soil plus biomass) carbon stock Total carbon ...
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... soil and soil collected exposed to elevated atmospheric CO2 exposed to high and low N fertilization rates at Arizona free air–CO2 enrichment site in September 1998 Area of arable land set-aside under different payments Possible ...
... soil and soil collected exposed to elevated atmospheric CO2 exposed to high and low N fertilization rates at Arizona free air–CO2 enrichment site in September 1998 Area of arable land set-aside under different payments Possible ...
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... soil collected in Arizona, calculated from BIOLOG and DGGE profiles Losses and gains of carbon under conventional and zero-tillage management systems in the USA Possible policy actions to attain changes in management practices ...
... soil collected in Arizona, calculated from BIOLOG and DGGE profiles Losses and gains of carbon under conventional and zero-tillage management systems in the USA Possible policy actions to attain changes in management practices ...
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... soil organic matter standard operating procedure short rotation coppice tonne tapered channel device Tokyo Electric Power Company teragram The Nature Conservancy terawatt hour United Kingdom United Nations United Nations Conference on ...
... soil organic matter standard operating procedure short rotation coppice tonne tapered channel device Tokyo Electric Power Company teragram The Nature Conservancy terawatt hour United Kingdom United Nations United Nations Conference on ...
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... carbon benefits. Techniques and methods for accurately and precisely measuring individual carbon pools in forestry projects exist, are based on peer-reviewed principles of forest inventory, soil sampling and ecological surveys, and have ...
... carbon benefits. Techniques and methods for accurately and precisely measuring individual carbon pools in forestry projects exist, are based on peer-reviewed principles of forest inventory, soil sampling and ecological surveys, and have ...
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