Climate Change Mitigation and European Land Use Policies
Published on 1. November 1997
Book
Hardback
368 pages
978-0-85199-185-6 (ISBN)
Description
The UN Convention on Climate Change requires countries to reduce their polluting greenhouse gas emissions from all sources including agriculture, forestry and land use. Emissions associated with land use are inherent in modern farming and forestry practices, with the commitments under the Convention representing a clear challenge to restructuring of Europe's agriculture and forestry policies. This book primarily considers the actions of Europe and other regions in reducing land use related greenhouse gas fluxes, while recognising that the array of economic and political pressures for CAP reform and sustainable land use are fundamentally intertwined. The book is aimed at practitioners, academics and policy makers in the field of agriculture and forestry who wish to understand the importance of the global emissions issue for European and global land use. Individual contributors, from 10 countries, consider greenhouse gas emissions at the sub-national, national, EU and global scales. Efficiency, equity and implications of policy in this area are the primary focus of the volume.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Wallingford
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 244 mm
Width: 172 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-85199-185-6 (9780851991856)
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1: Agriculture, Forestry and the Policy Issues 2: Land Use in Europe and the Reduction of Greenhouse-gas Emissions W N Adger, D Pettenella and M Whitby 3: Agricultural Policy Reform and Climate-change Mitigation in Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Countries M Storey and M McKenzie-Hedger 4: Forestry Options for Mitigating Predicted Climate Change W M Ciesla 5: A Critical Review of the Scientific Basis of Projected Global Warming A Zecca and R S Brusa 6: The Economic Costs of Climate Change and Implications for Land-use Change S Fankhauser 7: Issues in the Analysis of Greenhouse-gas Mitigation 8: Analysis of Time Profiles of Climate Change C Price 9: Public Policies and Incentives to Accelerate Irreversible Green Investments C Dosi and M Moretto 10: Human Adaptation in Ameliorating the Impact of Climate Change on Global Timber Markets B Sohngen, R A Sedjo, R Mendelsohn and K S Lyon 11: Economic Instruments and the Pasture-Crop-Forest Interface G Cornelius, I van Kooten and H Folmer 12: Mitigation Options and Policies in Agriculture 13: Agricultural Policy Impacts on United Kingdom Carbon Fluxes S Armstrong Brown, M D A Rounsevell, J D Annan, V R Phillips and E Audsley 14: Full Cycle Emissions from Extensive and Intensive Beef Production in Europe S Subak 15: Reduction of Emissions in Farming Systems in Germany K Loethe, C Fuchs and J Zeddies 16: The Effects of the Dutch 1996 Energy Tax on Agriculture M H C Komen and J H M Peerlings 17: Mitigation Options and Policies in Forestry 18: Policy Instruments for Environmental Forestry: Carbon Retention in Farm Woodlands R Crabtree 19: The Role of the Common Agricultural Policy in Inhibiting Afforestation: the Example of Saxony C Lippert and M Rittershofer 20: Forest Management and Policy Options for Emission Mitigation in Finland H Seppaelae and K Pingoud 21: German Forests in the National Carbon Budget: an Overview and Regional Case-studies K Boeswald 22: Carbon Fixation in Swedish Forests in the Context of Environmental National Accounts P Eliasson 23: Joint Implementation in Forestry and International Perspectives 24: The Potential Role of Large-scale Forestry in Argentina R A Sedjo and E Ley 25: Forestry and Agroforestry Land-use Systems for Carbon Mitigation: an Analysis in Chiapas, Mexico B H J De Long et al 26: Institutional Premises for the Fulfilment of Carbon-credit Requirements by Russia A A Gusev and N L Korobova 27: Summary 28: Issues and Implications for Agriculture and Forestry: a Focus on Policy Instruments P Gatto and M Merlo