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Table of Contents:

• Pt. I. Overview
• 1. Introduction : the role of landowners and farmers in the new low-carbon economy
• 2. The process of creating offsets
• 3. Land-management options for creating offsets
• Pt. II. Steps in determining a project's offsets
• 4. Step 1 : scoping the costs and benefits of a proposed project
• 5. Step 2 : determining additionally and baselines
• 6. Step 3 : quantifying the carbon sequestered in forests
• 7. Step 4 : quantifying the carbon sequestered in soil
• 8. Step 5 : quantifying greenhouse gas emissions from manure
• 9. Step 6 : quantifying and minimizing methane and nitrous oxide emissions from soil
• 10. Step 7 : estimating leakage or off-site emissions caused by the project
• 11. Step 8 : verifying and registering offsets
• 12. Conclusion : putting these guidelines into practice
• App. 1. Key factors to consider in developing a sampling strategy
• App. 2. Quantifying inadvertent emissions from project activities
• App. 3. Using statistics in quantifying offsets
• App. 4. Calculating levelized costs and benefits
• App. 5. Categorical additionality and barrier tests
• App. 6. Using periodic transition rates to calculate baselines

• App. 7. Typical carbon stocks in forest pools
• App. 8. Protocols for measuring carbon in subplots
• App. 9. Using stocking surveys to monitor forest projects
• App. 10. Determining the density of woody materials
• App. 11. Correcting for the degree of slope
• App. 12. Calculating carbon stock and changes in carbon stock
• App. 13. Adapting biomass equations from one species to another
• App. 14. Developing new biomass equations
• App. 15. Using stand-level equations
• App. 16. Calculating changes in carbon sequestration when soil density changes
• App. 17. Determining mass-specific ratios
• App. 18. Calculating methane and nitrous oxide emissions from manure
• App. 19. The dynamics of methane and nitrous oxide emissions from soil
• App. 20. Market leakage and activity shifting
• App. 21. Land-management projects and changes in demand
• App. 22. Addressing leakage from forestation projects
• App. 23. Using regression analysis to calculate elasticity
• App. 24. Guidelines for auditing greenhouse gases
• App. 25. Verifying and registering offsets under the Kyoto protocol
• App. 26. Choosing a registry
• App. 27. Sample field protocol : establishing plots and measuring biomass in a forestry project.

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Contributors:

Willey, Zach

Chameides, W. L.

Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions (Durham, N.C.)

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Subjects:

Alternative agriculture — Environmental aspects — Evaluation

Carbon sequestration — Measurement

Carbon dixoide sinks — Measurement

Emissions trading — Evaluation

Carbon cycle (Biogeochemistry)

Greenhouse gas mitigation

Carbon dioxide mitigation

Forest ecology

Agriculture — Economic aspects

Alternative agriculture

Evaluation

Carbon sequestration

Measurement

Emissions trading

Agriculture

General Notes:

"The Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions."
Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-222) and index.

Physical Description:

x, 229 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm

Call Numbers:

S589.75 .H36 2007

ISBNs:

9780822341680 (pbk., alk. paper)

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2007014064

OCLC Numbers:

122701745