Capturing Carbon and Conserving Biodiversity : The Market Approach.
Title:
Capturing Carbon and Conserving Biodiversity : The Market Approach.
Author:
Staff, Royal Society.
ISBN:
9781849770682
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (393 pages)
Contents:
Capturing Carbon and Conserving Biodiversity The Market Approach -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures and tables -- About the contributors -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- List of acronyms and abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part 1 Carbon and Climate Change -- Chapter 1 Forests, carbon and global climate -- Chapter 2 Changes in the use and management of forests for abating carbon emissions: issues and challenges under the Kyoto Protocol -- Chapter 3 An overview of a free-market approach to climate change and conservation -- Chapter 4 Potential carbon mitigation and income in developing countries from changes in use and management of agricultural and forest lands -- Chapter 5 The role of multilateral institutions -- Chapter 6 Electricity generation: options for reduction in carbon emissions -- Chapter 7 Measuring, monitoring and verification of carbon benefits for forest-based projects -- Chapter 8 Understanding and managing leakage in forest-based greenhouse-gas-mitigation projects -- Part 2 Environmental Services -- Chapter 9 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 -- Chapter 10 Economic, biological and policy constraints on the adoption of carbon farming in temperate regions -- Chapter 11 The role of sustainable agriculture and renewable-resource management in reducing greenhouse-gas emissions and increasing sinkins in China and India -- Chapter 12 Social capital from carbon property: creating equity for indigenous people -- Chapter 13 Species survival and carbon retention in commercially exploited tropical rainforest -- Chapter 14 Animal conservation, carbon and sustainability -- Chapter 15 Collateral biodiversity benefits associated with 'free market' approaches to sustainable land use and forestry activities.
Chapter 16 Developing markets for forest environmental services: an opportunity for promoting equity while securing efficiency? -- Part 3 The Future Model -- Chapter 17 Carbon sinks and emissions trading under the Kyoto Protocol: a legal analysis -- Chapter 18 Protecting terrestrial ecosystems and the climate through a global carbon market -- Chapter 19 designing a carbon market that protects forests in developing countries -- Chapter 20 Greenhouse-gas-trading markets -- Index.
Abstract:
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.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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