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DOI	10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2012.10.012
	Managing carbon in a multiple use world: The implications of land-use decision context for carbon management
	Dilling L.; Failey E.
发表日期	2013
ISSN	0959-3780
卷号	23 期号:1
英文摘要	Human land use contributes significantly to the growth of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. Changes in land management practices have been proposed as a critical and cost-effective mechanism for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and promoting the storage of additional carbon in vegetation and soils. However many discussions of the potential for land use to mitigate climate change only take into account biophysical factors such as vegetation and land cover and neglect how the agency of land owners themselves affects whether additional carbon storage can be achieved. Unlike many potential REDD opportunities in developing countries, land management in the U.S. to enhance carbon sequestration would occur against a backdrop of clearly defined, legally enforceable land ownership. In addition, more than a third of the land surface in the U.S. is managed by federal agencies who operate under legal guidelines for multiple use and is subject to demands from multiple constituencies. We set out to investigate how the goal of enhancing carbon sequestration through land use is perceived or implemented in one region of the U.S. , and how this goal might intersect the existing drivers and incentives for public and private land use decision making. We conducted a case study through interviews of the major categories of landowners in the state of Colorado, which represents a mixture of public and privately held lands. By analyzing trends in interview responses across categories, we found that managing for carbon is currently a fairly low priority and we identify several barriers to more widespread consideration of carbon as a management priority including competing objectives, limited resources, lack of information, negative perceptions of offsetting and lack of a sufficient policy signal. We suggest four avenues for enhancing the potential for carbon to be managed through land use including clarifying mandates for public lands, providing compelling incentives for private landowners, improving understanding of the co-benefits and tradeoffs of managing for carbon, and creating more usable science to support decision making. © 2012 Elsevier Ltd.
英文关键词	Carbon management; Carbon offsets; Climate change; Decision making; Land use; Policy; Public lands
学科领域	carbon emission; carbon sequestration; climate change; cost-benefit analysis; developing world; greenhouse gas; land cover; land management; land surface; land use planning; landownership; management practice; policy making; private land; trade-off; United States
语种	英语
scopus关键词	carbon emission; carbon sequestration; climate change; cost-benefit analysis; developing world; greenhouse gas; land cover; land management; land surface; land use planning; landownership; management practice; policy making; private land; trade-off; United States
来源期刊	Global Environmental Change
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/117997
作者单位	Center for Science and Technology Policy Research, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences and Environmental Studies Program, University of Colorado, Boulder, 80309-0488, United States
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Dilling L.,Failey E.. Managing carbon in a multiple use world: The implications of land-use decision context for carbon management[J],2013,23(1).
APA	Dilling L.,&Failey E..(2013).Managing carbon in a multiple use world: The implications of land-use decision context for carbon management.Global Environmental Change,23(1).
MLA	Dilling L.,et al."Managing carbon in a multiple use world: The implications of land-use decision context for carbon management".Global Environmental Change 23.1(2013).