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Title: Capturing Carbon and Conserving Biodiversity |
| Author: Ian R Swingland (Ed) |
Description: Subtitle: The Market Approach
As the ecological clock ticks, the failure of traditional forms of conservation to stop ecological devastation is all too clear. The new hope is that market-based approaches can reduce carbon emissions, save the planet from global warming, conserve biodiversity, create sustainable livelihoods and save money. Yet the critical question remains: How do we do it?
Capturing Carbon and Conserving Biodiversity makes an overwhelming case for the maximum use of carbon sinks, particularly in the developing world. The authors - a distinguished group of ecologists, biologists, conservationists, economists, lawyers, community and tribal specialists, market-makers, financial specialists, climatologists, resource managers, atmospheric scientists, project developers and corporate fund managers - reveal in persuasive detail the benefits of a market-based system of reducing and sequestering carbon. Combined with emissions trading, this approach will maximize benefit to the rural poor and indigenous people, while promoting habitat preservation and biodiversity, watershed protection, and the mitigation of global warming. Such a strategy is the lowest cost approach, and the one most likely to succeed where central planning has failed.
Most importantly the authors move beyond theory to show how people can build this self-sustaining system by exploring the range of instruments available, and what can be achieved in the absence of undue regulation. This book is essential reading for all involved with policy, research, practical conservation or the business development of these new carbon markets.
Published in association with The Royal Society
Table of Contents
Part I: Carbon Sequestration • Global Carbon Dynamics and Forestry • Management of Forests • Free market approach • Changes of Land Use • Multilateral Banks and GEF • Measuring Forest-Based Projects • Part II: Environmental Services • Land Use and Climate Change Policy • Temperate Areas • China and India • Indigenous People/Local Institutional Needs • Botanical Impacts • Animal Conservation • Markets • Part III: The Future Model • Kyoto Framework • International negotiations • Developing Countries • Emissions Trading • Bibliography, Index
392pp 233x154
Subtopic: General Economics |
| Year: 2003 |
| Code: 1523 |
| Price: €34.20 |
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