Climate change and forest sinks: factors affecting the costs of carbon sequestration

Article Abstract:

Issues concerning the US environmental policy of using forestry as a method of cutting air pollution are discussed. The economics of policy are explained.

International Affairs, Air Pollution Control, Intnl Environmental Law, Management, Forests and forestry, Forests, Air pollution, Greenhouse effect, International environmental law

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Regulating stock externalities under uncertainity

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Controlling stock externalities by relative to quantity based policies incorporating costs of adjusting the stock, and uncertainty in costs, several important principles governing the choice of price-based policies, are uncovered. Price-based instrument generates several times the expected net benefits of a quantity instrument when applied to the problem of greenhouse gases and climate change.

Legal issues & crime, Government regulation (cont), Government regulation, Administration of Air and Water Resource and Solid Waste Management Programs, Legal/Government Regulation, Pollution Control, Sanitary Services, Environmental Programs, Pollution Control & Abatement, Administration of Environmental Quality Programs, Resources, Environ & Energy-Total Govt, Pollution

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Land-use change and carbon sinks: econometric estimation of the carbon sequestration supply function

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The implementation of greenhouse gas reduction programs in the United States and evaluation of land-use change costs associated this implementation are analyzed.

United States, Government domestic functions, Economic aspects, Control, Greenhouse gases, Environmental remediation

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