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A Decision Matrix Approach to Evaluating the Impacts of Land-Use Activities Undertaken to Mitigate Climate Change.
- Source :
- Climatic Change; Apr2004, Vol. 63 Issue 3, p247-257, 11p
- Publication Year :
- 2004
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Abstract
- Land-use activities that affect the global balance of greenhouse gases have been a topic of intense discussion during ongoing climate change treaty negotiations. Policy mechanisms that reward countries for implementing climatically beneficial land-use practices have been included in the Bonn and Marrakech agreements on implementation of the Kyoto Protocol. However some still fear that land-use projects focused narrowly on carbon gain will result in socioeconomic and environmental harm, and thus conflict with the explicit sustainable development objectives of the agreement. We propose a policy tool, in the form of a multi-attribute decision matrix, which can be used to evaluate potential and completed land-use projects for their climate, environmental and socioeconomic impacts simultaneously. Project evaluation using this tool makes tradeoffs explicit and allows identification of projects with multiple co-benefits for promotion ahead of others. Combined with appropriate public participation, accounting, and verification policies, a land-use activity decision matrix can help ensure that progressive land management practices are an effective part of the solution to global climate change. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- CLIMATE change
GREENHOUSE gases
CLIMATOLOGY
ENVIRONMENTAL engineering
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 01650009
- Volume :
- 63
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Climatic Change
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 20376014
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1023/B:CLIM.0000018590.49917.50