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Community Forest Monitoring for the Carbon Market : Opportunities Under REDD.
Recent developments in international policy on Reduced Emissions from Deforestation in Developing countries (REDD) open the way for crediting of carbon saved by rural communities through management of the forests in their vicinity. Since the annual changes in forest carbon stock under this kind of m...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor and Francis,
2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Cover; Community Forest Monitoring for the Carbon Market: Opportunities under REDD; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; List of Figures, Tables and Boxes; PART I PRINCIPLES AND ISSUES; 1 Why Community Forest Monitoring?; 2 How Much Carbon Does Community Forest Management Save?; 3 Local Participation in Mapping, Measuring and Monitoring for Community Carbon Forestry; 4 The Policy Context of Community Monitoring for REDD+; 5 Information Requirements for National REDD+ Programmes; 6 The Costs and Reliability of Forest Carbon Monitoring by Communities.
- 7 A Field Guide for Community Forest Carbon Monitoring8 Participatory Mapping and Monitoring of Forest Carbon Services Using Freeware: CyberTracker and Google Earth; PART II CASE STUDIES; 9 The Cost to Communities of Participating in REDD+ in Nepal; 10 Community Carbon Forestry to Counter Forest Degradation in the Indian Himalayas; 11 The Potential of Community Forest Management under REDD+ for Achieving MDG Goals in Tanzania; 12 West Africa: Carbon Savings Through Community Management of Dry Savanna Woodlands; 13 Can Carbon Compete with the Loggers in Papua New Guinea?