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PUBLICATIONID : 48118
PUBLICATIONTYPE : 1
TITLE : Toward carbon governance: Challenges across scales in the United States
ORIG_TITLE : Toward carbon governance: Challenges across scales in the United States
AUTHOR : Dilling, Liso
FIRST_AUTHOR : Dilling, Liso
AUTHOR_COUNT : 1
ABBREV_JOURNAL : GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS
BEGINPAGE : 28
ENDPAGE : +
VOLUME : 7
ISSUE : 2
PUBLISH_DATE : May-07
YEAR : 2007
URL : http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/admin/publication_files/2007.19.pdf
REFEREED : 1
RESOURCE : WOS:000246025100003
CITATION : 5
DEPT : CSTPR
LAST_UPDATED : 2013-02-05 14:17:20
ISSN : 1526-3800
DOI : 10.1162/glep.2007.7.2.28
ABSTRACT : Public and private sector actors increasingly recognize the need for action to address climate change. With the introduction of "carbon sinks" into the policy dialogue, the notion of managing human activities to mitigate climate change has extended beyond energy systems and emissions of carbon dioxide to include management of the carbon cycle itself, through manipulation of the terrestrial and oceanic realms. The number of decision makers involved and scope of managing the carbon cycle deliberately for climate purposes raises enormous challenges to governance including identifying appropriate mechanisms where they do not yet exist and adding additional criteria onto existing mechanisms that are already affecting the carbon cycle. In this paper, I define effective carbon governance as limiting the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. This paper outlines a number of challenges to effective carbon governance. at multiple scales using the example of land use in the United States and elsewhere.
SERIAL : 48118
PAGES : 28-+
ONLINE_PUBLICATION : no
VERSION : 1
REFERENCES_NUM : 4
COUNT : 1
Entered by : Lisa Dilling