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Healey J.R., . and Tay J., . and Price C., . (2000) Pricing carbon retention by means of reduced impact logging : a case study from East Malaysia. [Proceedings Paper]
Abstract
Reduced impact logging in tropical countries enhances the local sustainability of forest management. It also significantly reduces the amount of carbon volatilised during and after logging. For this reason it may attract finance globally as a means of achieving carbon offsets. A model of forest regrowth and of necromass dynamics allows long-term estimation of the impact of different logging systems on both crop regeneration and on carbon fluxes. Overall reduced impact logging had the expected advantages over conventional logging. However there were several kinds of additional financial outlays. Moreover the reduced volume yield from reduced impact logging means that either a large opportunity cost is incurred or to achieve a given level of production a greater area must be exploited. This spillover effect can be incorporated in cost-benefit analyses. These show that according to the assumptions made about the appropriate level of analysis and the discount rate adopted the cost of retaining carbon by reduced impact logging may be much greater or much less than carbon prices which have been derived in other ways.
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Reduced impact logging in tropical countries enhances the local sustainability of forest management. It also significantly reduces the amount of carbon volatilised during and after logging. For this reason it may attract finance globally as a means of achieving carbon offsets. A model of forest regrowth and of necromass dynamics allows long-term estimation of the impact of different logging systems on both crop regeneration and on carbon fluxes. Overall reduced impact logging had the expected advantages over conventional logging. However there were several kinds of additional financial outlays. Moreover the reduced volume yield from reduced impact logging means that either a large opportunity cost is incurred or to achieve a given level of production a greater area must be exploited. This spillover effect can be incorporated in cost-benefit analyses. These show that according to the assumptions made about the appropriate level of analysis and the discount rate adopted the cost of retaining carbon by reduced impact logging may be much greater or much less than carbon prices which have been derived in other ways.
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| Item Type: | Proceedings Paper |
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| Additional Information: | Summary only En |
| AGROVOC Term: | PRICES |
| AGROVOC Term: | PRICE FIXING |
| AGROVOC Term: | CARBON |
| AGROVOC Term: | LOGGING |
| AGROVOC Term: | FOREST MANAGEMENT |
| AGROVOC Term: | COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS |
| AGROVOC Term: | PRODUCTION FORESTS |
| AGROVOC Term: | MALAYSIA |
| Geographical Term: | MALAYSIA |
| Depositing User: | Ms. Norfaezah Khomsan |
| Last Modified: | 24 Apr 2025 05:27 |
| URI: | http://webagris.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/16568 |
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