[HTML][HTML] Policy design for forest carbon sequestration: A review of the literature

M Gren, AZ Aklilu - Forest Policy and Economics, 2016 - Elsevier
Forest carbon enhancement provides a low-cost opportunity in climate policy, but needs
efficient policy design to be implemented. This paper reviews studies in economics on …

Carbon farming economics: what have we learned?

K Tang, ME Kragt, A Hailu, C Ma - Journal of environmental management, 2016 - Elsevier
This study reviewed 62 economic analyses published between 1995 and 2014 on the
economic impacts of policies that incentivise agricultural greenhouse (GHG) mitigation …

Economic valuation of land restoration: The case of exclosures established on communal grazing lands in Tigray, Ethiopia

W Mekuria, E Veldkamp, M Tilahun… - Land Degradation & …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Converting degraded grazing lands into exclosures is one option to restore soil nutrients
and to sequester carbon from the atmosphere. We estimate the economic value of such a …

Optimizing joint production of timber and carbon sequestration of afforestation projects

R Olschewski, PC Benitez - Journal of Forest Economics, 2010 - Elsevier
Optimizing harvesting decisions has been a matter of concern in the forestry literature for
centuries. However, in some tropical countries, growth models for fast-growing tree species …

Lessons from community-based payment for ecosystem service schemes: from forests to rangelands

AJ Dougill, LC Stringer, J Leventon… - … of the Royal …, 2012 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Climate finance investments and international policy are driving new community-based
projects incorporating payments for ecosystem services (PES) to simultaneously store …

Soil characteristics and carbon sequestration potentials of vegetation in degraded hills of Chittagong, Bangladesh

SK Barua, SMS Haque - Land Degradation & Development, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
The impacts of tree and horticultural plantations, and grassland on soil characteristics in the
degraded hills of Chittagong District, Bangladesh are reported on this paper. The carbon …

Restoring aboveground carbon and biodiversity: a case study from the Nile basin, Ethiopia

W Mekuria, S Langan, R Johnston, B Belay… - Forest Science and …, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
In Ethiopia, exclosures in landscapes have become increasingly important to improving
ecosystem services and reversing biodiversity losses. The present study was conducted in …

Changes in regulating ecosystem services following establishing exclosures on communal grazing lands in Ethiopia: a synthesis

W Mekuria - Journal of Ecosystems, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
In four separate studies undertaken in the northern highlands of Ethiopia, changes in
regulating ecosystem services, economic viability, and the perception of local communities …

Valuing carbon sequestration to finance afforestation projects in China

G Hou, CO Delang, X Lu, R Olschewski - Forests, 2019 - mdpi.com
Afforestation programs have huge potential to store carbon, thereby contributing to mitigate
climate change. However, the voluntary acceptance by landowners crucially depends on …

Estimation and economic evaluation of aboveground carbon storage of Tectona grandis plantations in Western Panama

S Derwisch, L Schwendenmann, R Olschewski… - New Forests, 2009 - Springer
Tropical tree plantations may play an important role in mitigating CO 2 emissions through
their potential to capture and sequester carbon from the atmosphere. The Clean …