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Valuing the environmental service of permanent forest stands to the global climate: The case of Costa Rica.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Valuing the environmental service of permanent forest stands to the global climate: The case of Costa Rica./
Author:	Castro Salazar, Rene.
Description:	134 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 60-05, Section: B, page: 2285.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International60-05B.
Subject:	Engineering, Environmental. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9933058
ISBN:	9780599336032

Valuing the environmental service of permanent forest stands to the global climate: The case of Costa Rica.
Castro Salazar, Rene.

Valuing the environmental service of permanent forest stands to the global climate: The case of Costa Rica. - 134 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 60-05, Section: B, page: 2285.

Thesis (D.Des.)--Harvard University, 1999.

Like many tropical countries, Costa Rica is losing its forests: private landowners cut down forests to grow crops and the government cannot afford to buy land for conservation. However, foreign countries can help, if preserving tropical forest is their most cost-effective option for reducing carbon emissions. This thesis investigates this possibility, using Costa Rica's state-owned Wildlife Conservation Areas (WCAs) as a case study.

ISBN: 9780599336032Subjects--Topical Terms:

783782
Engineering, Environmental.

Valuing the environmental service of permanent forest stands to the global climate: The case of Costa Rica.
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520 $a Like many tropical countries, Costa Rica is losing its forests: private landowners cut down forests to grow crops and the government cannot afford to buy land for conservation. However, foreign countries can help, if preserving tropical forest is their most cost-effective option for reducing carbon emissions. This thesis investigates this possibility, using Costa Rica's state-owned Wildlife Conservation Areas (WCAs) as a case study.
520 $a Finding cost-effective ways to sequester carbon or reduce carbon emissions is important because reducing global warming is both urgent and costly: possibly 2% of the world's GDP. Deforestation increases carbon emissions into the atmosphere and contributes to global warming. Reducing deforestation and growing trees can help to sequester carbon, and reduce emissions.
520 $a Various studies suggest that forest carbon sequestration may be a cost-effective way of reducing cost. According to the literature reducing emissions in the energy sector in industrialized countries will exceed $1 00 per ton. By contrast, the cost of sequestering carbon in US forests will cost from $1 0 to $1 00 per ton of carbon depending on the scale of the forestry projects and on the increasing opportunity cost of the land.
520 $a The cost of sequestering carbon in permanent forests is even lower in Costa Rica than in the United States. The estimates developed in this thesis suggest that 92% of the carbon sequestered in the proposed expansion of the WCAs will cost less than $5 0 per ton. Moreover, some landowners in Costa Rica may be willing to preserve private natural forests or switch from traditional crops or cattle-raising to forest plantations if the price of sequestered carbon were to rise to as little as $1 0 per ton.
520 $a Therefore, using tropical forest as a carbon sink may have economic, ecological, and social benefits. Economically, it may reduce mitigation costs and facilitate capital transfer from industrialized to developing nations. Society benefits because forests are often located in the poorest rural areas; the ecological benefits come from keeping forest cover, especially primary forest, which is crucial to conserving tropical biodiversity.
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