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In this paper we provide an analytical framework to estimate the joint production of biomass and carbon sequestration from afforestation and reforestation activities. The analysis is based on geographical explicit information on a half-degree resolution. For each grid-cell the model estimates forest growth using a global vegetation model and chooses forest management rules. Land prices, cost of forest production and harvesting are determined as a function of grid specific site productivity, population density and estimates of economic wealth. The sensitivity of the results due to scenario storylines is assessed using different population and economic growth assumptions, which are consistent with B1 and A2 of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Special Report on Emission Scenarios (IPCC-SRES) marker scenarios. Considerable differences in the economic supply schedules are found. However, technical potentials seem to converge given constancy in other underlying assumptions of the model.

In this paper we provide an analytical framework to estimate the joint production of biomass and carbon sequestration from afforestation and reforestation activities. The analysis is based on geographical explicit information on a half-degree resolution. For each grid-cell the model estimates forest growth using a global vegetation model and chooses forest management rules. Land prices, cost of forest production and harvesting are determined as a function of grid specific site productivity, population density and estimates of economic wealth. The sensitivity of the results due to scenario storylines is assessed using different population and economic growth assumptions, which are consistent with B1 and A2 of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Special Report on Emission Scenarios (IPCC-SRES) marker scenarios. Considerable differences in the economic supply schedules are found. However, technical potentials seem to converge given constancy in other underlying assumptions of the model.

In this paper we provide an analytical framework to estimate the joint production of biomass and carbon sequestration from afforestation and reforestation activities. The analysis is based on geographical explicit information on a half-degree resolution. For each grid-cell the model estimates forest growth using a global vegetation model and chooses forest management rules. Land prices, cost of forest production and harvesting are determined as a function of grid specific site productivity, population density and estimates of economic wealth. The sensitivity of the results due to scenario storylines is assessed using different population and economic growth assumptions, which are consistent with B1 and A2 of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Special Report on Emission Scenarios (IPCC-SRES) marker scenarios. Considerable differences in the economic supply schedules are found. However, technical potentials seem to converge given constancy in other underlying assumptions of the model.

Nitroderivatives 9a-g have been prepared with great C-8 regioselectivity by allowing the corresponding 1,2,4,5-tetrahydrospiro[3H-2-benzazepine-3,1′-cycloalkanes] 8a-g to react with potassium nitrate and concentrated H2SO4. The oxidative reaction of a nitrogen-carbon bond in spirobenzazepines 8 and 9 was performed with H2O2 and catalytic amounts of sodium tungstate at room temperature affording nitrones 10a-d in moderate to high yields. Stereochemical assignments for all the 2-benzazepine derivatives obtained were derived from a full analysis of the 1H NMR spectroscopic data and an X-ray crystallographic analysis of 1,5dimethyl-8-nitro-1,2,4,5-tetrahydrospiro[3H-2-benzazepine-3, 1′-cyclohexane] 9c. These data indicate that the 2-benzazepines 8-11 in solution present the azepine ring preferably in the chair conformation, with the methyl substituent at C-5 disposed equatorially.