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JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS AND MANAGEMENT
Volume 51, Issue 2, Pages 135-152Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.jeem.2005.08.001
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abatement; carbon; climate change; costs; forestry; greenhouse gases; land use; land-use change; sequestration
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If the United States chooses to implement a greenhouse gas reduction program, it Would be necessary to decide whether to include carbon sequestration policies-such as those that promote forestation and discourage deforestation-as part of the domestic portfolio of compliance activities. We investigate the cost of forest-based carbon sequestration by analyzing econometrically micro-data on revealed landowner preferences, modeling six major private land uses in a comprehensive analysis of the contiguous United States. The econometric estimates are used to simulate landowner responses to sequestration policies. We treat key commodity prices as endogenous and predict carbon storage changes with a carbon sink model. Our estimated sequestration costs exceed those from previous engineering cost analyses and sectoral optimization models. Our estimated sequestration supply function is similar to the carbon abatement supply function from energy-based analyses, suggesting that forest-based carbon sequestration merits consideration in a cost-effective portfolio of domestic US climate change strategies. (c) 2005 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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