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Measurement and Monitoring of Forests in Climate Policy Design--Molly K. Macauley
Pages 109-110

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... Voluntary carbon initiatives include some requirements for a census of protocolquality data for global forested area.64 Because forested area is only part of the allometric equation by which to estimate forest carbon storage, fusing or integrating data from different types of remote sensing instruments will overcome some limits. For example, Asner (2009)
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... . Managing forests to store carbon, given the opportunity cost of forested land including agricultural production and timber supply, could lead to changes in land use elsewhere and in turn complicate modeling and design of effective climate policy.
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