Community Forest Monitoring for the Carbon Market: Opportunities Under Redd

ISBN-13: 9781849711364 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 208 str.

Margaret Skutsch

Opis

The potential role of rural communities in measuring, monitoring and reporting carbon stock changes in their forests has been explicitly mentioned in UNFCCC documentation on methodology for Reduced Emissions from Deforestation in Developing Countries (REDD+). This book presents practical methods by which communities do this.

O autorze

Margaret Skutsch is Associate Professor in environmental geography at the Universidad Nacional Aut noma de M xico and is also affiliated to the University of Twente, the Netherlands. She has been doing research on community forest management since 1978, mainly in Tanzania, Sri Lanka, India and Mexico. She led the Kyoto: Think Global Act Local programme (2003-2009).