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| Provedor de dados: |
Ecology and Society
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| País: |
Canada
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| Título: |
Food-Carbon Trade-offs between Agriculture and Reforestation Land Uses under Alternate Market-based Policies
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| Autores: |
Paterson, Stacey; CSIRO Ecosystem Sciences; University of Adelaide; stacey.paterson@student.adelaide.edu.au
Bryan, Brett Anthony; CSIRO Ecosystem Sciences; brett.bryan@csiro.au
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| Data: |
2012-08-30
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| Ano: |
2012
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| Palavras-chave: |
Agriculture
Agroecosystem
Carbon sequestration
Ecosystem services
Food security
Land use
Payment
Policy
Reforestation
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| Resumo: |
Understanding the effects of payments on the adoption of reforestation in agricultural areas and the associated food-carbon trade-offs is necessary to inform climate change policy. Economic viability of reforestation under payment per hectare and payment per tonne schemes for carbon sequestration was assessed in a region in southern Australia supporting 6.1 Mha of rain-fed agriculture. The results show that under the median scenario, a carbon price of 27 A$/tCO2-e could make one-third of the study area (nearly 2 Mha) more profitable for reforestation than agriculture, and at 58 A$/tCO2-e all of the study area could become more profitable. The results were sensitive to variation in carbon risk factor, establishment costs, and discount rates. Pareto-optimal land allocation could realize one-third of the potential carbon sequestration from reforestation (16.35 MtCO2-e/yr at a carbon risk factor of 0.8) with a loss of less than one-tenth (107.89 A$M/yr) of the agricultural production. Both payment schemes resulted in efficiencies within 1% of the Pareto-optimum. Understanding food-carbon trade-offs and policy efficiencies can inform carbon policy design.
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| Tipo: |
Peer-Reviewed Reports
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| Idioma: |
Inglês
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| Identificador: |
vol17/iss3/art21/
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| Editor: |
Resilience Alliance
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| Formato: |
text/html application/pdf
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| Fonte: |
Ecology and Society; Vol. 17, No. 3 (2012)
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