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PUBLICATIONID : 48597
PUBLICATIONTYPE : 1
TYPE : Article
TITLE : Carbon stewardship: land management decisions and the potential for carbon sequestration in Colorado, USA
ORIG_TITLE : Carbon stewardship: land management decisions and the potential for carbon sequestration in Colorado, USA
AUTHOR : Failey, EL and L Dilling
FIRST_AUTHOR : Failey, EL and L Dilling
AUTHOR_COUNT : 1
ADDRESS : [Dilling, Lisa] Univ Colorado, Ctr Sci & Technol Policy Res, Environm Studies Program, Boulder, CO 80309 USA; Univ Colorado, Ctr Sci & Technol Policy Res, CIRES, Boulder, CO 80309 USA
PUBLISHER : IOP PUBLISHING LTD
FIRSTAUTHOREMPLOYER : 1
ABBREV_JOURNAL : Environ. Res. Lett.
ART_NO : 24005
VOLUME : 5
ISSUE : 2
PUBLISH_DATE : APR-JUN
YEAR : 2010
URL : http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/admin/publication_files/2010.16.pdf
REFEREED : 1
RESOURCE : WOS:000279369500006
CITATION : 2
DEPT : CSTPR
LAST_UPDATED : 2013-02-05 10:50:27
ISSN : 1748-9326
IDS : 618PZ
DOI : 10.1088/1748-9326/5/2/024005
ABSTRACT : Land use and its role in reducing greenhouse gases is a key element of policy negotiations to address climate change. Calculations of the potential for enhanced terrestrial sequestration have largely focused on the technical characteristics of carbon stocks, such as vegetation type and management regime, and to some degree, on economic incentives. However, the actual potential for carbon sequestration critically depends on who owns the land and additional land management decision drivers. US land ownership patterns are complex, and consequently land use decision making is driven by a variety of economic, social and policy incentives. These patterns and incentives make up the 'carbon stewardship landscape'-that is, the decision making context for carbon sequestration. We examine the carbon stewardship landscape in the US state of Colorado across several public and private ownership categories. Achieving the full potential for land use management to help mitigate carbon emissions requires not only technical feasibility and financial incentives, but also effective implementing mechanisms within a suite of often conflicting and hard to quantify factors such as multiple-use mandates, historical precedents, and non-monetary decision drivers.
KEYWORDS : stewardship; carbon sequestration; land tenure; land cover; land management; decision making; GIS; Colorado; United States
KEYWORD_PLUS : CONSERVATION RESERVE PROGRAM; MOUNTAIN PINE-BEETLE; SOIL CARBON; UNITED-STATES; AGRICULTURAL LANDS; PUBLIC LANDS; FOREST; LESSONS; MOTIVATIONS; OBJECTIVES
AREA : Environmental Sciences & Ecology; Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences
FIRST_AUTHOR_EMAIL : Lisa.Dilling@colorado.edu
PUBLICATION : ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LETTERS
PLACE : BRISTOL
LANGUAGE : English
SERIAL : 48597
APPROVED : yes
ONLINE_PUBLICATION : no
VERSION : 1
FIRST_AUTHOR_ADDRESS : Dilling, L (reprint author), Univ Colorado, Ctr Sci & Technol Policy Res, Environm Studies Program, Boulder, CO 80309 USA
AUTHOR_OTHER_FORM : Failey, Elisabeth L.; Dilling, Lisa
FUNDING : NOAA[NA05OAR4311170]
FUNDING_ACKNOWLEDGEMENT : We appreciate the comments on this paper provided by Rich Conant, Jason Neff, Bill Travis, Rad Byerly and several anonymous reviewers. Funding was provided by NOAA under award NA05OAR4311170. This project was a collaboration with William Easterling (Penn State). David Theobald suggested GIS land cover data to use in our analysis and supplied us with the Colorado landowner/management data. Richard Conant provided the unpublished report containing Colorado specific carbon estimates.
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Entered by : Lisa Dilling