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Developing national carbon accounting and monitoring system for India's forest - An ecosystem model approach [1]

The Kyoto Protocol has made carbon a tradable commodity which signifies the value of forest carbon budgets and the need for understanding factors influencing them. For measuring future consequences of changes in land usage, current level of carbon emission and future patten needs scientific evaluation, if forest based climate mitigation strategy is to be developed.

Publication Date: 
01/12/2009
Ajay Kumar Mahapatra [2]
Indian Forester [3]
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Ecosystems [4], Forests [5], Land Use [6], Soil Resources [7], Carbon Dioxide [8], Climate Change [9], Green House Gases [10], Biomass [11], Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) [12], Carbon Sequestration [13], Remote Sensing [14], India [15]
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[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/soil-resources
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/carbon-dioxide
[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/climate-change
[10] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/green-house-gases
[11] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/biomass
[12] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/clean-development-mechanism-cdm
[13] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/carbon-sequestration
[14] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/remote-sensing
[15] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/india