TY  - BOOK
AU  - Willey,Zach
AU  - Chameides,W.L.
ED  - Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions (Raleigh, N.C.)
TI  - Harnessing farms and forests in the low-carbon economy: how to create, measure, and verify greenhouse gas offsets 
SN  - 0822341689
AV  - S589.75 .H36 2007
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Durham [N.C.]
PB  - Duke University Press
KW  - Alternative agriculture
KW  - Environmental aspects
KW  - Evaluation
KW  - Carbon sequestration
KW  - Measurement
KW  - Carbon dioxide sinks
KW  - Emissions trading
KW  - Carbon cycle (Biogeochemistry)
KW  - Greenhouse gas mitigation
KW  - Carbon dioxide mitigation
KW  - Forest ecology
KW  - Carbon offsetting
KW  - Agriculture
KW  - Economic aspects
N1  - "The Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions."; Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-222) and index; Introduction : the role of landowners and farmers in the new low-carbon economy -- The process of creating offsets -- Land-management options for creating offsets -- Step 1 : scoping the costs and benefits of a proposed project -- Step 2 : determining additionality and baselines -- Step 3 : quantifying the carbon sequestered in forests -- Step 4 : quantifying the carbon sequestered in soil -- Step 5 : quantifying greenhouse gas emission from manure -- Step 6 : quantifying and minimizing methane and nitrous oxide emissions from soil -- Step 7 : estimating leakage or off-site emissions caused by the project -- Step 8 : verifying and registering offsets -- Conclusion : putting these guidelines into practice
N2  - As the United States moves to a low-carbon economy in order to combat global warming, credits for reducing carbon dioxide emissions will increasingly become a commodity that is bought and sold on the open market. This is a how-to-manual for farmers, traders, and investors who want to participate in future carbon markets.--[book cover]
UR  - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0715/2007014064.html
ER  -