Sponsor
Partial funding for this study was provided by the Council on Food, Agricultural and Resource Economics, Washington, DC.
Published In
Agricultural and Resource Economics Review
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2019
Subjects
Forest management, Forests and forestry
Abstract
We demonstrate an application evaluating carbon sequestration benefits from federal policy alternatives. Using detailed forest inventory data, we projected carbon sequestration outcomes in the coterminous 48 states for a baseline scenario and three policy scenarios through 2050. Alternatives included (1) reducing deforestation from development, (2) afforestation in the eastern United States and reforestation in the western United States, and (3) reducing stand-replacing wildfires. We used social cost of carbon estimates to evaluate the present value of carbon sequestration benefits gained with each policy. Results suggest that afforestation and reforestation would provide the greatest marginal increase in carbon benefit, far exceeding policy cost.
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DOI
10.1017/age.2019.20
Persistent Identifier
https://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/33193
Citation Details
Haight, R. G., Bluffstone, R., Kline, J. D., Coulston, J. W., Wear, D. N., & Zook, K. (2019). Estimating the Present Value of Carbon Sequestration in US Forests, 2015–2050, for Evaluating Federal Climate Change Mitigation Policies. Agricultural and Resource Economics Review, 1-28.
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COPYRIGHT: © The Author(s) 2019 This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.