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Crops and carbon : paying farmers to combat climate change

Title
Crops and carbon : paying farmers to combat climate change / Mike Robbins.
Author
Robbins, Mike, 1957-
Publication
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Earthscan, 2011.

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Description
xix, 300 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Summary
This book looks critically at this mode of climate change mitigation. Can it work? Is it just? Will poorer countries benefit? The book considers the scientific, economic and ethical basis for this type of mitigation.
Subject
  • Farmers > Economic conditions
  • Agriculture > Economic aspects
  • Sustainable development
  • Agriculture > Environmental aspects
  • Leadership
  • sustainable development
  • Changement climatique
  • Agriculture
  • Dioxyde de carbone
  • Lutte antipollution
  • Développement durable
  • Relations Nord-Sud
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Climate change : implications for agriculture -- Agriculture : changing the climate? -- Three questions on carbon economics -- Flexible instruments, fungible carbon -- Carbon, money and agriculture -- From theory to practice : the Atlantic Forest biome -- The sceptical farmer -- The farmer's view -- The heretic's view -- The keys to soil carbon.
ISBN
  • 9781849713757
  • 1849713758
LCCN
  • 2011004456
  • 3644511
  • 99945409777
OCLC
  • ocn706920680
  • 706920680
  • SCSB-14260301
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library