Publications
This section of the Web site provides a list of publications produced
and supported by EPA, as well as other references. Publications that
are not official EPA reports do not necessarily represent the opinions
and findings of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
The publications are categorized under the following major topics for
agricultural and forestry sequestration activities:
Robertson, G.P., E.A. Paul and R.R. Harwood (2000) Greenhouse Gases in
Intensive Agriculture: Contributions of Individual Gases to the Radiative
Forcing of the Atmosphere. Science, 289(5486): 1922-1925. [Available online
with kind permission from Science Magazine].
Schlesinger, W.H. (1999) Carbon Sequestration in Soils. Science, 284:
2095. [Available online with kind permission from Science Magazine].
West,
T.O. and W.M. Post (2002) Soil Carbon Sequestration by Tillage and Crop
Rotation: A Global Data Analysis. Soil Science Society of America Journal.
Available at DOE CDIAC site.
Lal, R., J.M. Kimble, R.F. Follett and C.V. Cole (1999) The Potential
of U.S. Cropland to Sequester Carbon and Mitigate the Greenhouse Effect.
Lewis Publishers.
Follett, R.F., J.M. Kimble and R. Lal (2001) The Potential of U.S. Grazing
Lands to Sequester Carbon and Mitigate the Greenhouse Effect, Lewis Publishers.
See the Project Analysis section of this
Web site.
See Co-Benefits – Water Quality
or Biodiversity sections of this Web site.
See the Project Analysis section of this
Web site.
Casperson, J.P. et al. (2000) Contributions of Land-Use History to Carbon
Accumulation in U.S. Forests. Science, 290: 1148-1151. [Available online
with kind permission from Science Magazine].
Houghton,
R.A. (2002) Magnitude, distribution and causes of terrestrial carbon
sinks and some implications for policy. Climate Policy, 2(1): 71-88.
[Abstract only].
Joyce, L.A. and
R. Birdsey (2000) The impact of climate change on America’s forests:
A technical document supporting the 2000 USDA Forest Service RPA Assessment.
Gen. Tech. Rep. RMRS-GTR-59. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture,
Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station.
Shugart,
H., R. Sedjo and B. Sohngen (2003) Forests & Global Climate
Change: Potential Impacts on U.S. Forest Resources, Prepared for the
Pew Center on Global Climate Change.
Houghton, R.A. and J.L. Hackler (2002) Carbon Flux to the Atmosphere
from Land-Use Changes, estimates available at DOE’s
Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center.
Birdsey, R.A.
and G.M. Lewis (2003) Carbon in United States Forests and Wood Products,
1987-1997: State-by-State Estimates. US Department of Agriculture, Forest
Service, Global Change Research Program, and U.S. EPA.
EPA
(2006) Inventory of U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks: 1990-2001,
EPA 430-R-06-002. See Agriculture and Land Use Change & Forestry chapters.
CASMGS 2003 Carbon Measurement and Monitoring Forum
See the Project Analysis section of this Web
site.
IPCC (2000)
Special Report on Land Use, Land-Use Change, and Forestry, Cambridge University
Press.
IPCC (2001)
Climate Change 2001: Mitigation. Contribution of Working Group III to
the Third Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change. B. Metz et al. (eds.), Cambridge University Press.
See
Project Analysis section of this Web site.
EPA (1995) Climate Change Mitigation Strategies in the Forest and Agriculture
Sectors. EPA 230-R-95-002. For access to this document online, you need
to go to EPA’s
National Environmental Publications Internet Site, and enter the
title of the report.
Follett, R.F., J.M. Kimble and R. Lal (2001) The Potential of U.S. Grazing
Lands to Sequester Carbon and Mitigate the Greenhouse Effect, Lewis Publishers.
Lal, R. et al. (1999) The Potential of U.S. Cropland to Sequester Carbon
and Mitigate the Greenhouse Effect, Lewis Publishers.
Lewandrowski,
J. et al. (2004) Economics of Sequestering Carbon in the U.S. Agricultural
Sector, Technical Bulletin No. (TB1909) of USDA Economic Research Service.
McCarl, B.A. and U.A. Schneider (2001) Greenhouse Gas Mitigation in U.S.
Agriculture and Forestry. Science, 294: 2481-2482. [Available online with
kind permission from Science Magazine].
Sampson, R.N. and D. Hair (eds.) (1996) Forests and Global Change. Volume
2: Forest Management Opportunities for Mitigating Carbon Emissions. American
Forests, Washington, DC.
Sathaye,
J., W. Makundi and K. Andrasko (2001) Carbon mitigation potential
and costs of forestry options in Brazil, China, India, Indonesia,
Mexico, the Philippines and Tanzania. (PDF, 185 pp., 207 KB,
About PDF)
Mitigation
and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change, 6 (3-4): 185-211.
Available for personal use only through the kind permission of Kluwer
Academic Publishers; please contact Kluwer for any reproduction and/or
distribution.
Schneider,
U.A. and B.A McCarl (2002) The Potential of U.S. Agriculture and Forestry
to Mitigate Greenhouse Gas Emissions: An Agricultural Sector Analysis.
CARD Working Paper 02-WP 300. (PDF)
IPCC (2001)
Climate Change 2001: Mitigation. Contribution of Working Group III to
the Third Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change. B. Metz et al. (eds.), Cambridge University Press.
IPCC (2000)
Special Report on Land Use, Land-Use Change, and Forestry, R.T. Watson
et al. (eds.), Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Cambridge University
Press. Chapters 3 and 4 in particular contain mitigation estimates.
Sedjo, R.,
B. Sohngen and R. Mendelsohn (2001) Estimating Carbon Supply Curves for
Global Forests and Other Land Uses. (PDF)
Brown, S.,
O. Masera, J. Sathaye, K. Andrasko, P. Brown, P. Frumhoff, R. Lasco, G.
Leach, P. Moura-Costa, S. Mwakifwamba, G. Phillips, P. Read, P. Sudha,
R. Tipper et al. (2000) Project-Based Activities. In: Special Report on
Land Use, Land-Use Change, and Forestry, IPCC, Cambridge University Press.
Chomitz, K.M. (2001)
Evaluating carbon offsets from forestry and energy projects: How do they
compare? World Bank Paper. (PDF)
Subak,
S. (2002) Forest certification eligibility as a screen for CDM sinks
projects. Climate Policy, 2: 335-351.
See Project Analysis section of
this Web site.
Birdsey,
R.A. and L.S. Heath (1995) Carbon Changes in U.S. Forests. In Productivity
of America’s Forests and Climate Change, L.A. Joyce (ed.), Gen.
Tech. Rep. RM-271, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Fort
Collins, CO, pp. 56-70. (PDF 4 MB)
Hurtt, G.C.
et al. (2002) Projecting the future of the U.S. carbon sink. Proceedings
of the National Academy of Sciences, 99(3): 1389-1394. (PDF 20 KB)
Skog,
K.E and G.A. Nicholson (2000) Carbon Sequestration in Wood and Paper Products.
In USDA Forest Service Gen. Tech. Rep. RMRS-GTR-59, pp. 79-88. (PDF
205 KB)
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